September Culture Series:
September 19: TimPermanent,
Gay, Avant-pop recording artist has been packing local venues such as The Viper
Room, The Roxy, UltraSuede & California Institute of Abnormal-Arts (CIA)
brings his unique sound to the ONE
Archives.
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909 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 741-0094
Sunday, September 19, 2010
2:00pm-5:00pm
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Greetings !
As we begin to wrap up the Summer and sail into Fall, ONE continues to be a hive of activity. We have an exciting new schedule for the Fall and Winter culture series . Our Archivists and Art Specialists continue diligently processing collections and preserving our collection of fine art.
Please read on to find out more about these and other fascinating activities at ONE Archives.
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 | From Our Collections:
The Twice Blessed Collection opens at
the
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
| By Kyle Morgan, MLIS
Archivist
What began as one man's quest for a Jewish and Gay identity started
in motion a long, arduous, but ultimately award-winning work to collect, catalog and make available everything that is gay, lesbian, bisexual,
transgender and Jewish. The result, Johnny Abush's Jewish Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender Archives, the largest Jewish LGBT archival collection
in the world, has now been made available once again.
The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives has just completed
archiving this extraordinary documentation of the Jewish LGBT experience from
1966 to 2000. The collection boasts over 950 name files of members of the Jewish
LGBT tribe. It contains boxes of online and print materials of Jewish LGBT
topics as diverse as marriage, the military, sex, film, AIDS, and Israel. It
contains hundreds of gay synagogue newsletters and prayer books with
gender-neutral language, published in Israel,
Canada, the United States, Britain,
the Netherlands, and South Africa.
It contains videos, posters, photographs, comics, clothes, buttons, magnets and
other memorabilia, each with their own story to tell about the Jewish LGBT
experience.
Johnny Abush said that in order to feel good about yourself, the
major components of who you are have to be a source of pride. Now because of
the work of Johnny Abush and the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, that
pride has been given a permanent place amongst the world's cultural history. Please
come visit the archives and discover for yourself why those of the Jewish LGBT
community have always been and always will be twice blessed indeed.
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| | Our Art Conservation Project Continues
| By David Evans-Frantz
Over the past three months, Mia Locks, Susan McCullough and myself have been creating an inventory of ONE's art collection. As a group we have been photographing and taking notes on each art piece so that it can be entered into the archive's database and accessed online. As of now we have cataloged over half of the approximately 4,000 piece collection. Once we have completed the inventory of ONE's holdings, we will then begin to conduct research on the artists and works in the collection, culminating in a Getty- sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition next year.
As a recent graduate of USC with a deg  ree in Art History, working at ONE has been a great experience: I am actually doing something related to what I studied! ONE has some great pieces in its collection: photographs by Steven Arnold and Pattsi Valdez and drawings by Gronk are just a few I found especially interesting and can't wait further research. |
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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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