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Greetings! Summer is right around the corner and things are starting to heat up here at ONE! We have some exciting new programs coming up as well as several community events to share with you this summer. Just in time for Pride, our Traveling LGBTQ History Panels are now ready for purchase! More information about these innovative, professional exhibitions can be found below. ONE has some must see exhibitions currently on view and upcoming. Dress Codes which highlights two recent donations to the collections at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries closes this weekend at the ONE Gallery in West Hollywood. Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, organized by the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA), and Watchqueen both continue at ONE Archives through the summer. And on June 5, the ONE Gallery and the City of West Hollywood will open Art AIDS America, examining 30 years of artistic production made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries has also recently completed a collaboration with the GLBT Historical Society to process 111 collections of primarily California-based LGBTQ pioneers and organizations. See below for more information on these groundbreaking new collections.
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ONE's Traveling LGBTQ History Exhibitions Are Now Ready for Purchase!
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Just in time for Pride month, the ONE Archives Foundation is excited to announce that we have several new Traveling LGBTQ History Exhibitions ready for purchase! These innovative, high quality exhibitions educate, engage and enthuse the general public about significant events and individuals in LGBTQ history.  
Perfect for Pride events, LGBT History month, Employee Resource Groups, Community Events, libraries, schools, fundraisers etc., these exhibitions feature hundreds of rare images and many never before seen documents from ONE's renowned collection along with informative text that enrich and deepen the general public's knowledge of LGBTQ history. 
Our traveling exhibitions build upon ONE's long legacy of providing ground breaking educational programs about the LGBTQ experience to worldwide audiences for over 60 years. For the complete catalog of exhibitions available, pricing and sponsorship information, click here.
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Art AIDS America
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Art AIDS America
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 2015, 7-9pm
On view June 6 - September 6, 2015
Presented in two parts at the ONE Archives Gallery & Museum and the West Hollywood Library:
ONE Archives Gallery & Museum626 North Robertson Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
West Hollywood Library
625 North San Vicente Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Art AIDS America examines 30 years of artistic production made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. Surveying the early 1980s to the present, this exhibition reintroduces and explores a spectrum of artistic responses to HIV/AIDS from the politically outspoken to the quietly mournful, considering how the disease shifted the development of American art away from the conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a more insistently political and autobiographical voice.
Presented in two parts at the ONE Gallery and the West Hollywood Library as a part of One City One Pride, this iteration of the exhibition comprises a select preview of the larger show opening at the Tacoma Art Museum in October 2015. In West Hollywood, works on view at the Library explore a wide range of creative expressions from the early years of AIDS to the present, while the presentation at the ONE Gallery focuses special attention on California-based artists.
Find more information on this exhibition here.
RSVP to the opening reception on Facebook here.
Art AIDS America is organized by Tacoma Art Museum in partnership with The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and co-curated by Dr. Jonathan D. Katz, Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), and Rock Hushka, Chief Curator at Tacoma Art Museum. The exhibition and catalogue have been made possible by support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. Presentation of the preview exhibition Art AIDS America made possible by the City of West Hollywood and The David Geffen Foundation.
 
Images: (Top) Shimon Attie, Untitled Memory (projection of Axel H.), 1998. Ektacolor photograph, Edition 1 of 3, 32 × 38 ¾ inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; (Bottom) Albert J. Winn, Akedah, 1995. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Scott Portnoff
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L.A. Pride 2015 Gala & Film Showcase
Sunday, June 7, 2015
VIP 5pm, General 6:30pm
The Montalbán
1615 Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028Christopher Street West (CSW) cordially invites you to the official LA Pride 2015 Opening Gala & Film Showcase. The ONE Archives Foundation is excited to announce the event will premiering our new History of the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement Exhibition for the first time. Find more information about the event and buy tickets here.
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Gay Berlin: A Lecture by Robert Beachy |
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Gay Berlin: A Lecture by Robert Beachy
Monday, June 8, 2015, 6-7:30pm
Doheny Memorial Library
3550 Trousdale Parkway
USC University Park Campus
Los Angeles CA 90089-0185
This illustrated lecture by Robert Beachy, author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014), chronicles how culture in Berlin in the early twentieth century shaped our modern understanding of homosexuality. By beginning of the new century Berlin had become a place where scholars, activists, and medical professionals could explore and begin to educate both themselves and Europe about new and emerging sexual identities. Not only was the term "homosexuality" originally a German invention (Homosexualität), Berlin also sponsored the world's first gay rights organization and the first gay periodical. This talk considers this academic climate, as well as the uninhibited urban sexuality of 1920s Weimar Berlin, which boasted a vast network of gay, lesbian, and "transvestite" clubs and other associations. Berlin of the 1920s was a place of tremendous cultural and scientific experimentation, including innovative theories of gender and transsexuality.
Find more information on this lecture here.
RSVP to the lecture on Facebook here.
Image: Transvestites in Eldorado in the early 1930s. Courtesy of Robert Beachy
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Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends and
Mythologies
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Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends and Mythologies
On view March 21- July 11, 2015
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Organized by the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, or MOTHA, Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects examines objects that hold significance in narrating the history of transgender communities. The project blurs the line between the real and the imaginary, the known and the unknowable, giving visibility to actual people and events that remain foundational for transgender history while embracing partial facts, rumors, and maybes. Inspired by the Smithsonian's book American History in 101 Objects, which was in turn inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects by the BBC and the British Museum, this presentation of Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects at ONE Archives, subtitled Legends & Mythologies, marks the first iteration of this evolving, multi-exhibition project. Founded and directed by artist Chris E. Vargas, MOTHA is an imagery museum that seeks to bring a cohesive visual history of transgender culture into existence through temporary autonomous programs that envision the existence of a legitimate and legitimizing arts and history institution for trans people.
Legends & Mythologies includes artwork or archival material from Craig Calderwood, Angela Douglas, Reed Erickson, Nicki Green, Monica Helms, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Sam Lopes, Sir Lady Java, Emmett Ramstad, Tuesday Smillie, and Wu Tsang and R.J. Messineo.
More information on this exhibition here.
Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends & Mythologies is organized by Chris E. Vargas, Executive Director of MOTHA, with David Frantz, Curator at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support provided by the ONE Archives Foundation.
Image: Nicki Green, It's Almost as if We've Existed (Tres in Una), 2015. Glazed earthenware, 15.5 x 12 x 3.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist
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ONE Completes CLIR-Supported Project with GLBT Historical Society
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ONE Archives has recently completed a collaboration with the GLBT Historical Society to process 111 collections of primarily California-based LGBTQ pioneers and organizations. Funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the Out West project included the digitization of over 400 photographs and the development of a dynamic website showcasing the collections and images, accessible here.
The Out West collections and images document the personal relationships, professional lives, non-profit organizations, and cultural phenomena that have paved the way for the continued growth and liberation of the LGBTQ community. The records provide a new understanding of the wartime gay and lesbian community in the 1940s, the homophile movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.
To continue reading this article, click here.
Image: José Sarria and the Imperial Court at Finocchio's in San Francisco in 1965. GLBT Historical Society
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Touch of the Other: Performing the Laud Humphreys PapersWednesday, April 8, 2015 at ONE Archives
Touch of the Other was a site-specific multimedia performance by Takao Kawaguchi and Deanna Erdmann inspired by Humphreys' seminal sociological study "Tearoom Trade" (1970). The performance was accompanied by the exhibition Watchqueen, featuring works by Dino Dinco, Deanna Erdmann, Eve Fowler and Math Bass, Emmanuel Guillaud, and Yi Zhang.
Images: Photograph from Touch of the Other: Performing the Laud Humphreys Papers at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, April 8, 2015. Photo by Ian Byers-Gamber  Jiraiya: A Visual Presentation & Talk on Craft and Career
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at ONE Archives
Part of the artist's first North American tour is presented by MASSIVE, Jiraiya discussed his unique style, process, craft, and career, with visual aids and live a demonstration of his drawing work. Jiraiya has long been one of the most beloved gay comics and illustration icons in Japan. However, until recently, his work was only available outside of Japan through the cached back channels of the Internet. Today, his freehand photo-realistic illustrations of Asian masculine hyperbole gain visibility through a diverse array of merchandise as well as his popular manga-known as much for its exquisite illustration style as it is for its sympathetic and uncanny portrayal of the queer quotidian.
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Interweave LGBTQ & Friends Unitarian Universalists presents A History of a People: The LGBTQ Movement
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Sunday, May 17, 2015 , 12-1pm
Unitarian Universalist Church 5654 Ralston St, Ventura, CA 93003
This event is free and open to the public.
Please join Michael C. Oliveira, an archivist at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, for a presentation on the history of the LGBTQ movement in the United States, the role of the archives in the community, preservation tips, and answers to your questions about preserving personal papers and photographs.
Please call 805-665-3323 with any questions about this event.
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CLOSING THIS WEEKEND
Dress Codes: Chuck Arnett & Sheree Rose
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Dress Codes Closing Sunday, May 17, 2015
ONE Gallery
Chuck Arnett (1928-1988) was a Southern ballet dancer who discovered San Francisco's youth culture of the 1960s, a microcosm of expanding consciousness and self-trained artists. Performance artist Sheree Rose is perhaps best known for collaborations with her late partner, poet, and performance artist Bob Flanagan. Together, the two bodies of work point across alternate moments in time, connecting the raw sexuality and kink of disparate queer communities whose lives and works are now a part of the archives at ONE.
For more information here.
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 Watchqueen
Dino Dinco, Deanna Erdmann, Eve Fowler and Math Bass, Emmanuel Guillaud, and Yi Zhang
On view April 8 - July 11, 2015
ONE Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007 One of the most iconic architectures of public sex, the glory hole, is usually equated with its obverse: the phallus. Yet, as the artists gathered in Watchqueen suggest, public forms of queer intimacy, even those bartered through a hole in the wall or the peep-like portholes of the camera and projector, can be tethered loosely to a metaphor outside penetrative pleasure: one of highly proximate and radically limited exchange. Referencing Laud Humphreys' self-appointed role of the watchqueen while conducting research for Tearoom Trade (1970), the exhibition's title and the work included do not consider the visual as an ersatz stand-in for real sex. Rather, its ogling is a necessary, ocular platform for staggered multiple fields of pleasure, vulnerability, power, and play. Find more information here. |
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An Evening Among the Roses
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Friday, June 12, 2015, 6:30-9:30pmThe Huntington Library The Rose Garden 1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
With guests encouraged to dress to the nines, An Evening Among the Roses is a sophisticated tribute to LGBT cultural contributions in Los Angeles and beyond. Attendees will enjoy great music, food and drinks in a magical rose-laden paradise and experience The Huntington as an institution - its collections, people, and values - in a whole new light. Tickets are $75 each. To purchase your ticket, make a donation to support the event and for up-to-date event information, please click here. |
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The Black Cat Tavern Riots of 1967: An Interview with Alexei Romanoff
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Thursday, June 4, 2015, 6:30-8pm
Community Meeting Room
Silver Lake Branch
Los Angeles Public Library
2411 Glendale Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90039
The Silver Lake Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, in arrangement with the History Collective of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, will host a screening of an interview with Alexei Romanoff, a firsthand witness to the Black Cat Tavern Riots of 1967. These riots were in protest of a New Year's Eve raid on the gay bar, Black Cat, by undercover officers who arrested and beat the bartender and customers for kissing at midnight.
After the screening, Mr. Romanoff will be interviewed in person by Mark Simon, and will entertain questions from the audience. Mr. Simon, an active member of the Silver Lake History Collective, also has extensive knowledge of Silver Lake's LGBT history, and has even performed in a puppet show about Harry Hay and the Mattachine Society (Exhibit A).
Contact Branch Manager Lisa Palombi, (323) 913-7455 for more information about this event or click here.
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Donate to ONE With Your Next Amazon.com Purchase
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