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News from ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
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Greetings!
With Spring in full bloom, and summer right around the corner, ONE is hard at work bringing you several new programs sure to kick off your summer season with a bang!
We are pleased to present the exhibition Stand Close, It's Shorter Than You Think: A show on feminist rage at ONE Archives in collaboration with Artists Curated Projects (ACP) and co-curated by Katherine Brewer Ball and RJ Messineo with work by boychild, RJ Messineo, MPA and Guadalupe Rosales. Additionally this month the ONE Gallery will open a retrospective show of work by LA-based queer Chicano artist Joey Terrill. Also coming up in May is an electrifying Culture Series performance by Charles Reese about the life of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin.
ONE is busier then ever finding new and inventive ways to bring the treasures of the archives to you through cultural events, community partnerships, and gallery exhibitions. We hope you are able to join us for our many upcoming programs in May!
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Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 2013, 5-8pm
Exhibition runs May 18 - August 25, 2013
ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
626 North Robertson Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives presents a retrospective exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based queer Chicano artist Joey Terrill covering five decades of the artist's work including paintings, drawings and artist publications.
Rooted in a commitment to social justice issues, Terrill's work contests categories of Chicano and queer art and identity, consistently blurring the line between art, life, archive and activism. The works assembled in this exhibition point to multiple concerns in the artist's work such as raising queer and Chicana/o consciousness, complicating forms of representation and identity, and exploring personal histories.
Most recently, Terrill's work was included in ASCO: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative. This retrospective of Terrill's work underscores ONE's commitment to exploring histories of queer art in Los Angeles.
For more information about this exhibition, click HERE.
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 ONE May Culture Series: James Baldwin: A Soul On Fire
A Literary Performance & Book Signing Salon by Charles Reese
Sunday, May 19, 2013, 2-4pm
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Admission is free - suggested donation of $5
Audelco Award nominee, cultural architect and editor Charles Reese brings famed American writer and civil rights activist James Balwin to life at this literary salon. Mr. Reese will perform select excerpts from the acclaimed off-Broadway play James Baldwin: A Soul On Fire by Howard B Simon (Published by Azaan Kamau/Glover Lane Press, 2011), for which he was an editor.
The performance will be followed by a brief conversation, "James Baldwin: 25 Years Later & Still Relevant!" and book signing. This salon experience salutes the 50th anniversary of a secret meeting between James Baldwin and Robert Kennedy (the premise of Simon's play), which took place on May 24, 1963. For more information about this event, please click HERE.
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From the Archives:
New Collections from the NHPRC Grant
As mentioned in previous newsletters, ONE is proud to be the recipient of a generous grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC). ONE has already processed more than 60 collections through the NHPRC grant, and researchers are now able to access brand new collections such as:
...papers and photographs of Lynn Edward Harris, an actor, lecturer and intersex person who was also the winner of the Costa Mesa Junior Miss pageant in 1968. Born intersexed, Harris was raised as female but later became an intersex advocate and spokesperson after going through a number of legal battles resulting from not having a legal gender...
...records and photographs from Southern California Woman for Understanding, founded in 1976 and formed to create a supportive environment for women and lesbians. The collection includes hundreds of photographs and editorial content used in the publication of the organization's newsletter...
To read more about the all of the new collections processed as a part of the National Historical Publications & Records Commission, please click here. To find out more about the NHPRC and their programs, visit http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/. ONE would like to thank the NHPRC for their generous grant and ONE's many donors for your continued support.
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ONE Archives
Out and About
ONE has been hard at work bringing LGBTQ history and the Archives out to you in your communities this past April and May.
We were in Sacramento recently for the GSA Youth Leadership Academy where we presented a rousing LGBTQ history lesson to a standing-room-only group of very passionate queer youth. The next day the youth held a rally on the steps of the Capitol and met with their local leaders to discuss policy reform for LGBTQ youth across the state.
Queer Youth Advocacy Day at the State Capitol in Sacramento
ONE had a great time at this year's Mr. Leather Los Angeles event! The ONE booth featured an exhibition of rare archival photos and ephemera from the Los Angeles Leather community dating back over 50 years. We were thrilled to be one of the community partners selected to receive funds generated from this year's event and we had a great time meeting many new faces and introducing them to ONE during the festivities.
 ONE Board President Jeffrey Erdman, ONE Board Secretary Tom De Simone
and ONE Board Member Matthew Steiger
At this year's L.A Times Festival of Books, Dear ONE premiered on the USC Stage to a packed crowd. Dear ONE, directed by Zsa Zsa Gershick, illuminates the lives of LGBTQ Americans as recounted through letters written between 1953 and 1967 to ONE Magazine, the first widely distributed publication for homosexuals in the US. Look out for more performances of this extraordinary play coming soon!
Dear ONE performers Dalila Ali Rajah, Hunter Lee Hughes, Paul Jacek
and Beverly Mickins
The Lambda Literary Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary with an historic event at the West Hollywood Public Library honoring several LGBT literary pioneers. ONE's Director, Joseph Hawkins, presented an award to John Rechy that evening, and also spent time with several other notable LGBT luminaries such as activist and long time ONE donor, Carolyn Weathers.  Activist and ONE donor Carolyn Weathers and ONE's Director, Joseph Hawkins.
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STAND CLOSE, IT'S SHORTER THAN YOU THINK
NOW ON VIEW AT ONE ARCHIVES
April 20 - July 28, 2013
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in collaboration with Artist Curated Projects (ACP) presents Stand Close, It's Shorter Than You Think: A show on feminist rage, co-curated by Katherine Brewer Ball and RJ Messineo with work by boychild, RJ Messineo, MPA and Guadalupe Rosales. The exhibition explores the promises and pitfalls of thinking with rage as a meditation, an inspiration, a medium, and a process. For more information click HERE.
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ONE Visits the UK: "Trade Secrets" at the Nottingham Contemporary
ONE Archives is excited to announce we have been invited to display materials from the archive at the Nottingham Contemporary in the United Kingdom. Trade Secrets, part of the museum's series of Small Collection Room exhibitions, marks the first time objects from ONE will be exhibited outside Los Angeles and ONE's first international collaboration. For more information about Trade Secrets please click HERE.
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