July Culture Series:
July 18: "Transgender
101" with Attorney Mia
Yamamoto, exploring the evolution of the laws governing transgender
expression, identity and discrimination as well as their images in the media
and their protection and inclusion in American society.
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909 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 741-0094
Sunday, July 18, 2010
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Greetings !
June has seen a flurry of activity at the archive. We have started our Art Cataloging Project, which we will feature in next month's newsletter, and our three archivists are in full swing processing the papers of Gay and Lesbian Pioneers as part of the NEH grant funded project.
Please read on to find out more about these and other fascinating activities at ONE Archives.
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Our President Joseph Hawkins was recently interviewed for the NPR show Tell Me More for Pride month about some of the Pioneers and the Archives. CLICK HERE and hear the interview!
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The Mattel Company contacted ONE
Archives to arrange an appropriate exhibit for their employee network group
"OPEN at Mattel" to celebrate Pride Month at their headquarters in El
Segundo.
Mattel selected ONE's
"Pioneers" exhibit and displayed it in two locations on their
campus. Mattel has made a generous
donation to ONE for the use of the "Pioneers" exhibit. ONE extends thanks to Mattel employees, Todd Piccus (pictured below)
Assistant General Counsel & Director, Legal & Business Affairs and Erin
Bric, Leadership Development Analyst.
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| | ONE Gallery Opening
| On July 3rd ONE Archives Gallery and Museum proudly presents:
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
OUT OF THE CLOSET & INTO THE
STREET
Posters of LGBTQ Struggles & Celebrations
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, July 3,
2010, 5-8 pm
626 N.
Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood,
CA. 90069
(Gallery entrance on El Tovar Pl.)
Suggested donation: $5.00
Check it out on our Facebook Page
Exhibit
runs from July 3rd to September 26th, 2010
Gallery
Hours: Fri 4:30-8:30PM Sat & Sun 1-5PM
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| | From Our Collections:
Gay Activist Alliance
| By Michael C. Oliveira, MLIS
Project Archivist
It's great to be back at ONE! There's a palpable feeling of
excitement with the many projects underway, including the National Endowment for
the Humanities grant project, the art cataloging, and the ongoing Culture Series, museum exhibits, and endless filing and updating of databases of
periodicals, subject files and the rest. I would like to personally express my thanks to all the volunteers for
their continued service. Without their dedication, ONE would not have such a
fantastic collection. ONE always has room for one more volunteer, if you would
like to come down for a few hours or a few days it would be wonderful to have
you.
GAA Protest with president Jim Owels on right February 1971  |
Upon my return for the NEH grant, I processed the
Gay Activist Alliance - New York collection from Angel Perez and
Jerome O'Hare. While our collection does not have the depth of the New York
Public Library's Gay Activist Alliance - New York collection, it does provide
an overview of the structure, actions, and successes of the GAA with copies of
the bylaws, committee descriptions and reports, press releases, publications,
flyers, and photographs. The collection also includes more than two years of
bulletins with stories and images from the Liberation News Service, an
alternative to such organization as the Associated Press (AP). Complementing
the GAA-NY collection at ONE are subject files from other chapters including
Los Angeles, Long Island, Miami, New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and
Washington, D.C. along with other early liberation group collections and
subject files.
Primarily active in the early 1970s, the GAA-NY attempted to
avoid internal conflict, which often divided groups by focusing on single
issues that affected our diverse community such as discrimination in employment
and housing in the city and state of New York. The group also emphasized
organization and structure with bylaws, democratically elected leadership, use
of Roberts Rules of Order, and standing and ad hoc committees.
The structure allowed the GAA to organize effective direct actions or
"zaps" focusing media and public attention on homophobic actions by
people, organizations, and businesses. Later groups like ACT-UP would use the
same tactics to focus the attention of the public on the AIDS crisis.
If you are interested in reading more about the Gay Activist
Alliance and other early liberation organizations, please consider
Summer
of '77: Last hurrah of the Gay Activists Alliance by Joe
Kennedy
City
Of Sisterly And Brotherly Loves: Lesbian And Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 by Marc
Stein
The
Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles
Kaiser
Rebels,
Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South by James
T. Sears
Gay
Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality by Fred
Fejes
And of course if you haven't read
Gay
L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian
Faderman and Stuart Timmons
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NEH Matching Funds
| In previous newsletters, we shared the exciting news that we've received the
largest grant for an LGBT organization from the National Endowment for
the Humanities--$272,086.00. Great news, but we need matching funds for
that grant and we are turning to you, our community, for help. ONE is
constantly in need of general operating funds for salaries for our
support positions, such as our Office Specialist who answers your calls
and e-mails. We need archival materials for our art collections and to
help us save our audiovisual collections. There is still so much to do to
save our history. We're doing our bit and we need your support and donations
to meet the goals of this incredible grant. Please make a donation online today. Every bit helps!
Sincerely,
Joseph R. Hawkins, Ph.D
Anthropology and Gender Studies
University of Southern California
President ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
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