August Culture Series:
August 15: "SO HARD, A Black Man Navigates West Hollywood in a New America " with writer / performer Derek Ringold
presenting a staged reading of his acclaimed one man show which illustrated a Black Gay Man's fight for love and equality.
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909 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 741-0094
Sunday, August 15, 2010
2:00pm-5:00pm
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Greetings !
As the Summer moves on ONE continues to turn up the heat on our
productivity! Our Art Conservation Project, begun in June surges ahead,
as our archivists continue their work on the Founders and Pioneers
materials under the recently received NEH grant.
Please read on to find out more about these and other fascinating activities at ONE Archives.
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In June, with a generous donation from Jehan Agrama and Dwora Fried, ONE began the Art Conservation Project. Photograph by Laura Aguilar  | Art historians David Evans Frantz, Mia Locks, and Susan McCullough are currently cleaning and wrapping over one thousand works and listing them in our databases with photographic images. Soon you'll be able to view ONE's collections on-line.
In Phase II of this Project, which we hope to begin in August, we'll begin to do the same kind of conservation work on our three-dimension pieces and sculptures, begin researching provenance and continue to improve on the storage for the collections. Untitled Painting by Phillip Core  | This effort will culminate in an exhibition in October of 2011 under the auspices of the Getty Museum in a Southern California-wide event called Pacific Standard Time (PST). PST will include ONE's retrospective exhibition Queertopia: Art and the Seeds of Revolution, 1945-85, which, as it's title suggests, will look back at early art efforts in the queer community of the mid-twentieth century from the time of the birth of the American LGBT movement. If you'd like to help with our Art Conversation Project, please send your donation to us or contact our office at 213-741-0094 and donate via phone. We need another $10,000 for this project!
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Summer is here and the Bowl season is upon us. Thanks to the graciousness of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Community Service Program & Supervisor Gloria Molina's office, we have free tickets for Tuesday August 24th "Sarah Chang Plays Shostakovich" available to our wonderful volunteers on a first come first serve basis. Please call the office or email budt@onearchives.org to reserve your tickets. For more info on the concert go to Hollywood Bowl Website
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Our Newest Archivist
| ONE is happy to welcome Kyle Morgan as the newest member of our
archives staff. Kyle's experience and enthusiasm has been a wonderful
addition to our ONE family and we look forward to working with him over the next years. If you visit our archives feel free to stop in and say hello!
 By Kyle Morgan, MLIS
Archivist
I wanted to introduce myself as the new assistant archivist
at ONE. I recently graduated from UCLA with a Masters
in Library and Information Sciences with a focus on archives. I come to the
archives after almost three years in the Institutional Archives at the Getty
Research Institute. I was brought on as part of the NEH grant to assist
with processing seventeen collections of our historic
individual and institutional pioneers. I couldn't be more excited to join this
amazing organization and expert archival team in keeping alive LGBT cultural
history.
While the materials I worked on at
the Getty focused on institutional legacy, I have been touched by the amazing
individual legacies that make up the materials here at the archives. I am
currently working on the Twice Blessed Collection, the largest Jewish LGBT
collection in the world, and have been moved beyond words regarding the
herculean effort of Johnny Abush in amassing this collection so that others may
better understand and be proud of their Jewish LGBT identity. He is but one of
hundreds of inspirational stories documented in the archives that make this
institution such an incredible treasure.
I am working hard to get to know
all the members of this vast ONE family, especially the amazing trove of volunteers
who devote their efforts in the preservation of an LGBT legacy. Their
knowledge of the archives and LGBT history are essential resources to research,
reference, and archival processing. In addition, their
stories and personal experiences make the archival materials come to life in a deeply
personal and emotional way. Whether you're researching materials or just
stopping by to see what the archives are all about, be sure to engage the
volunteers and tap into their vast knowledge.
Thank you for letting me introduce myself to you and I hope
to see you all at the archives.
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Researcher Request:
| Were you at the Black Cat Bar when it was raided New Year's Eve 1966/67?
Black Cat Protest  | Or, were you at the protests that followed in February 1967?
I am writing an article about what happened that night at the Black
Cat, the protests that followed, and the historical significance of it
all. So, if you were there, or you know someone who was there, I'd
love to talk or email with you. I look forward to connecting with you.
Please contact me at:
Eve Goldberg
707-571-1870
eve.goldberg@comcast.net
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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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