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January 2012
Culture Series:
Lucy Benji Terrell
"One in Seven Billion: Exploring Gender Diversity."
Diverse gender expression and experience can be witnessed across the globe and in our own homes. Activist Lucy Benji
Terrell sheds light on realities of gender glossed over in the mainstream and a new generation of creative response.
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Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 741-0094
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Greetings!
We hope your Holidays are filled with Joy & Happiness! As always we at ONE have spent this past year both caring for the treasures of our history & tending to the precious memories we share. Please remember us in your year-end giving & scroll down to see what we have done for you.
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 | ONE's Extensive AIDS Collection
Focus of World AIDS Day 2011
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"They Were Among Us," a historic program featuring witnesses involved in the early terrifying years of the pandemic, was attended by 230 guests at ONE Archives to observe the 30th year of AIDS.
Speakers included such legendary participants in those early days as physicians Dr. Michael Gottlieb, Dr. Eugene Rogolsky, Dr. Alexandra Levine and Dr. Mark Ka tz; long-time survivor Steve Pieters; Rev. Malcolm Boyd; Patsy Lawson, a mom with AIDS, and her twenty-six-year-old daughter Lynnea Garbutt "who was HIV+ before she had a name"; activist Mary Lucey; theatre artist and activist Michael Kearns; and Marsha Malamet who sang her AIDS anthem "Love Don't Need a Reason." They were joined by Rabbi Lisa Edwards and writer Maggie Milstein. ONE is profoundly honored to have shared this unique and moving experience with so many community members. (A DVD of the event will be released soon.)
The event spotlighted ONE's vast collection of AIDS-related materials and aimed to support and expand it further by acquiring many more life records of those who died. That very night, thirteen people brought memorabilia that had belonged to loved ones and opened new individual collections in their names. Since then, all those materials have been accessioned and recorded by ONE's archivists and are now available for research.
ONE is deeply grateful to all those who generously made gifts supporting the ONE AIDS Collection! Donations to ONE Archives make possible the collection and protection of LGBT history from every era, and are always welcome.
You too may start a Named Collection with materials related to someone's life-letters, photos, manuscripts, organizational records, art, political or cultural materials, film/videos, etc. (For more information, write to askone@onearchives.org)
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| The third part of Cruising the Archive
opens in January!
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Cruising the Archive: Queer Worldmaking opens January 24, 2012 at the Doheny Memorial Library Treasure Room on the University of Southern California campus. The exhibition presents a range of documents, photographs and ephemera from the collections at ONE
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Pink leather motorcycle outfit worn by Lee Leonard, Emperor XR of the L.A. Imperial Court, in a CSW pride Parade, c 1970's. ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
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Archives. Queer Worldmaking includes a number of LGBT publications from Los Angeles such as Vice Versa, ONEMagazine, Transvestia, and The Lesbian Tide, a silver lamé jacket worn by singer and club owner Beverly Shaw,
photographs and materials related to female-to-male transgender philanthropist Reed Erickson, performance ephemera from drag star Charles Pierce, an original mask by Radical Faerie mask-maker Kenneth Bartmess, a pink leather motorcycle outfit worn by Lee Leonard in a Christopher Street West pride parade during the 1970s, and more. This third part of ONE's PST offering delves into the vast collections at the archives and presents objects primarily suitable for viewing in a library context, many of which are directly related to artworks exhibited and included in the two other parts of
Cruising the Archive.
Cruising the Archive: Queer Worldmaking
January 24, 2012- May 31, 2012
Doheny Memorial Library, Treasure Room
University of Southern California (University Park Campus)
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0185
Opening Reception
Doheny Memorial Library, Treasure Room
5-7pm
Panel Discussion: Queer Aesthetics and Archival Practices
Doheny Memorial Library, Friends Lecture Room
7-9pm
On January 24, 2012, USC Libraries will host the opening reception for Cruising the Archive: Queer Worldmaking, followed by Queer Aesthetics and Archival Practices, a panel discussion on the practical and theoretical aspects of "the archive" and its relationship to contemporary art. Moderated by curator and performer Malik Gaines, the panel will feature Ann Cvetkovich, professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin; Catherine Lord, professor of studio art at UC Irvine; and Ulrike Müller, artist and coeditor of the queer feminist art journal LTTR. More information can be found at http://cruisingthearchive.org/events/.
Cruising the Archive is organized by ONE Archives as a part of Getty's Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the generosity of the USC Libraries. Information on Cruising the Archive, including locations, hours, events and the catalogue, can be found at cruisingthearchive.org.
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| Stuart Timmons' Collection and More
| A special thanks to Stuart Timmons, Mark Thompson, and Gay Timmons, Stuart's sister, for the donation of the Stuart Timmons Papers and Collections. Gay had taken on quite a
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task of organizing and distributing Stuart's years of research materials and collections including personal correspondence from Oreste Pucciani to Rudi Gernreich and dozens of recorded interviews from Lee Glaze, Lee McEvoy, Torie Osborn, Jim Weatherford, Guy Richards, Gary Meade, Don Brown, Tom Gibbons, Robert Clark, Malcolm Boyd, Jaime Green, Marvin Edwards, Suzanne Gage, Frank Zerilli, Bob Zimmerman, and many others. This collection of more than 35 linear feet also includes a wealth of Stuart's research materials, dozens of photograph albums, and the works of Jim Yousling, Craig Collins, and Chuck Stallard. ONE wishes a special thanks to Stuart, Mark, Gay, and everyone that donated collections to ONE. |
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This has been an exciting year for ONE; we received more than 69 archival collections, the largest number received in any single year. The individual collections ranged from a donation of a few photographs to one over 75 linear feet. Including a number ofcollections received during our World AIDS day event. We also will set records for the number of linear feet of archival collections processed, the number of student internships, the number of volunteer hours in processing archival collections, and the number of archival collections ready for posting online.
We were also glad to see many researchers return, along with many new faces. Their continued work will cause another record to fall, with more researchers visiting ONE this year than ever before. None of this would have been possible without the continued support of the community.
During this holiday season the staff would like to thank our Director, Dr. Joseph R. Hawkins; our Collections Manager, Greg Williams; the ONE board of directors; the University of Southern California; USC Dean of Libraries, Catherine Quinlan; the USC Library IT support team; and ESPECIALLY our volunteers, interns, and donors for your continued support and dedication to the preservation, documentation and understanding of LGBTQA history and culture.
Please remember us in a year-end gift by
Donating Here
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