GLBT Historical Society
GLBT Historical Society
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Phone: (415) 777-5455
- Email: reference@glbthistory.org
- Website: http://www.glbthistory.org/
Founded in 1985, the GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history, culture and arts in all their diversity. The Dr. John P. De Cecco Archives & Special Collections of the GLBT Historical Society are among the largest and most extensive holdings in the world of materials pertaining to LGBTQ people and organizations. Broadly speaking, the over 900 discrete collections fall into four main areas: archives, periodicals, oral histories, and arts & artifacts.
Collections at this institution
AIDS Legal Referral Panel Records
Records of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, an organization that connects people with AIDS (PWA) and volunteer lawyers willing to donate time and expertise in order to assist them. It has been a significant resource for PWA's since its inception. Also Included in this collection is materials from the Women's AIDS Network. The AIDS Legal Referral Panel was founded in 1983 by attorneys Frederick Hertz, Steven Richter, Mark Senick, and Gary James Wood. It was originally a committee of the LGBT organization Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF). Hertz, Richter, Senick, and Wood understood that many gay men in ...
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
66 Items
Alband (Linda) Collection of Randy Shilts Materials
Randy Shilts (1951-1994) was a prominent, openly gay journalist and author. A freelance television and newspaper reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shilts covered issues facing local LGBTQ communities, most notably the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Shilts published three books: The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS epidemic (1989), and Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf (1993). In 1982, Shilts published his first book, The Mayor of Castro Street, about Harvey Milk and LGBT ...
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
231 Items
Beowulf Thorne Papers
Beowulf Thorne (Jack Henry Foster) was a political activist on issues affecting PWAs (people with AIDS). He was one of the founders, with Tom Shearer, of the humor magazine, Diseased Pariah News (DPN). He used his skills as a writer, editor, and graphic artist on the magazine. The collection documents the operations, both commercial and artistic of DPN, as well as the work of Oakland's Condom Resource Center. 2003-10.
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
92 Items
Sue Rochman Papers
Sue Rochman is a freelance health journalist from the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in oncology and HIV. She is a contributing editor for Mamm, editor-at-large for HIVPlus, medical editor for SusanLoveMD.com and has been a regular contributor to the Advocate, Training & Conditioning, GayHealth.com and numerous other publications. These files contain the research and notes of journalist Sue Rochman on HIV/AIDS and prison populations. Materials include correspondence from prisoners and prison activists, published articles, reports by government agencies and non-profit organizations, and handwritten notes from interviews, conversations, and readings. Most pertain to prisons in New York, California, Florida,Texas, Missouri, ...
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
3 Items
Ueda, Marie Collection
Photographs from Marie Ueda of gay events during the 1970's to 1990's. Photos of Harvey Milk, Pride Parades, White Night Riots, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, AIDS and other LGBT events.
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
200 Items
