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News from ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
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Greetings!
With the end of DOMA, the return of marriage to California, and summer in full swing, there is a lot to celebrate! ONE is hard at work bringing you several new programs sure to kick off your summer season with a bang!
We are pleased to announce our partnership with OUTFEST 2013 this year! ONE is sponsoring a great film called Continental on July 13 at 9:30pm at the DGA. Mention ONE and receive $1 off when buying your tickets! We are also excited to announce that the 4th Annual ONE Queer Film Fest is slated for October and we are now officially accepting film submissions. Please see the below paragraphs for more information on how to submit your films.
As always, ONE has been hard at work bringing the treasures of the archives to you through our many programs, events and gallery exhibitions. We hope to see you at the OUTFEST screening or here at ONE soon!
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ONE Archives and OUTFEST 2013!
ONE Archives is proud to announce our partnership with OUTFEST 2013 to screen the film CONTINENTAL, directed by award winning director Malcolm Ingram, at this year's OUTFEST Film Festival.
Saturday, July 13, 2013 | 9:30PM | DGA 1.
For tickets, please visit
To receive $1 off your ticket purchase, mention
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives when placing your order.
The $1 discount per ticket is available only on phone orders,
and is valid for the film CONTINENTAL only.
Larger-than-life entrepreneur Steve Ostrow tells the story of how he dreamed up the Continental Baths in 1968, when he was married, starting to come out, and had a federal court case hanging over his head. With little to lose, he opened the first customer-friendly gay bathhouse, which became a cultural phenomenon.
It was a vortex of sexual liberation, glamour and incendiary social change -- first helping to legalize homosexuality in New York City and later, with its legendary cabaret, launching the careers of such stars as Labelle, Barry Manilow and Bette Midler. CONTINENTAL is directed by Malcolm Ingram, winner of the Grand Jury Award at Outfest 2006 for his documentary SMALL TOWN GAY BAR.
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From the Archives: Out West
ONE Archives Joins the GLBT Historical Society for a First-if-its-kind Collaboration
ONE Archives has joined with the GLBT Historical Society for a first-of-its-kind two-year processing collaboration funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources. This exciting project entitled Out West will join the two largest LGBTQ archives in the western United States to preserve and provide access to over 100 collections and 800 linear feet of historic LGBTQ records. These collections comprise some of the most important LGBTQ collections in California and the western United States, including two of the most import figures in the second half of the 20th century, José Sarria and Patricia Nell Warren.
Patricia Nell Warren and famed AIDS-activist Larry Kramer. Photo courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
The José Sarria papers at the GLBT Historical Society documents one of the leading San Francisco figures in the early gay rights movement. Sarria worked as a waiter and entertainer at the Black Cat in the 1950s and early 1960s, where he gave elaborate performances of his self-styled drag opera parodies to packed crowds. At the height of his fame in 1961, he ran for a seat on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, polling a startling 7,000 votes.
Jose Sarria. Photo courtesy of GLBT Historical Society.
The Patricia Nell Warren papers at ONE Archives documents one of the most popular and respected authors of LGBTQ literature. Warren is best known for her eight acclaimed novels, including her most celebrated work, The Front Runner, a love story so popular that it inspired Frontrunners running/walking clubs across the world. Her books have reached an estimated 20 million people, many of the titles published under her own independent press, Wildcat Press.
For more information about Out West please click HERE.
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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 June and July.
We participated in the SoCal Social Pride event on June 5 where we got to meet many new faces and introduce them to ONE for the first time. We had a booth set up where we displayed our Pride exhibition panels and were also the recipients of the silent auction proceeds. It was a wonderful way to get the word out about ONE!
ONE Board Member Matthew Steiger talking to event attendees at the ONE booth.
 ONE Board Member Matthew Steiger with event attendees at the ONE booth.
On June 8th and 9th, ONE presented reclaim:pride, a collaboration between ONE Archives and RECAPS Magazine that sought to call attention to the radical beginnings of the pride parade as a defiant claiming of public space while connecting the archive to contemporary queer issues ignored or omitted from mainstream gay and lesbian politics. The installation also included a Fag Face scanning station by artist Zach Blas as part of his ongoing series Facial Weaponization Suite. A special reclaim:pride issue of of RECAPS is out now and can be viewed at recapsmagazine.com.
 reclaim:pride at the Christopher Street West Pride Festival  reclaim:pride at the Christopher Street West Pride Festival
ONE Archives was honored on May 31st by Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and council colleagues at a special ceremony for LGBT Heritage Month at City Hall. "Claiming the Dream, Building the Legacy" honored ONE Archives and two other honorees for having a profound impact on the lives of all Angelenos while building a strong foundation of pride for the next generation of LGBT youth in Los Angeles.
Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa presenting the award to ONE's Director, Joseph Hawkins. Photo courtesy of Karen Ocamb.
On June 26th, ONE Archives, the California LGBT Arts Alliance and One City One Pride presented a lecture by Jonathan David Katz PhD, called "How AIDS Changed American Art" about the upcoming exhibition ART/AIDS/AMERICA at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2016. Generally considered merely a tragic tangent to US culture, AIDS has in fact been one of the most powerful shaping forces in American culture since the 1980s. The lecture was followed by a Q&A with Dr. Katz.
 Jonathan David Katz PhD giving his lecture, "How AIDS Changed American Art." Photo courtesy of California LGBT Arts Alliance.
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Make A Difference Now!
Please support the many activities at ONE in your philanthropy. Show us your love with a gift to preserve the past and ensure the future of LGBTQ histories.
DONATE NOW!
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June/July 2013  |
DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO SEE
STAND CLOSE, IT'S SHORTER THAN YOU THINK
NOW ON VIEW AT ONE ARCHIVES UNTIL JULY 28TH!
April 20 - July 28, 2013
ONE 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 ARCHIVES
IN THE
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CONTINUING AT THE
ONE GALLERY:
JOEY TERRILL
 Exhibition runs
May 18 - August 25, 2013
ONE Gallery
626 North Robertson Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
ONE 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 ARCHIVES
DONORS OF THE MONTH
ONE Archives would like to thank Stewart Sokol, PhD for his recent donation of posters, photo albums, training manuals and t-shirts from his many years of work in the HIV/AIDS community. Dr. Sokol was among the first supervisors of the National AIDS Hotline, was the Director of the South Bay Free Clinic's HIV/AIDS Program Services from 1991-1999, and was the Chair of the South Bay AIDS Network for 8 years, among many other contributions. His donation to ONE represents over 30 years of history in the AIDS movement. Thank you Dr. Sokol for your valuable donation to ONE, and for your many years of service to your community!
STEVE DESROCHES "The collection of items I donated to the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives are really a byproduct of living in Provincetown, Massachusetts for the past 11 years. Since moving to Provincetown, I've worked as a writer and journalist for a variety of publications, some LGBT in focus, others not. When it comes to the books, DVD's, record albums, and other forms of media I donated, much of that was either given to me by sources for stories or purchased by myself for research purposes.
Interested in history in general, I began to collect items relating to LGBT history that I would find at yard and estate sales here in Provincetown, as well as on e-Bay. The past always found its way in to my work, often through artifacts. I thought it best that these items that helped me in my work should be preserved for future generations to learn from, as I have."
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