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Title: Darlene Lutz posing with group
Contributor: Sahl, Ted (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Lesbian activist and bar owner, Darlene Lutz (second from left) poses with a group.
Darlene Lutz was the first woman to be elected empress in the Casa de San Jose Court System (1982), an informal association of drag queens. Lutz worked in several Cupertino area gay bars and in 2000 she opened Dar's Hideaway, previously known as the Savoy. See Ted Sahl, From Closet to Community, pp. 133-134, 240.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
9.7 x 7.8 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_766
filename: ts_p_098
oclc: 798964783
islandora: 80_766
Language: English
Subject: People
Group portraits
Lesbians
Lesbian activists
Gay bars
Place: Santa Clara County
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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