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Title
BAYMEC lobbies school board
Contributor
Sahl, Ted (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution
San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information
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Description
BAYMEC, a gay and lesbian political pac lobbies the San Jose Unified School District on behalf of gay rights. Photograph shows Wiggsy Sivertsen at the podium.
The Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC) is a non-partisan, political action committee serving the civil rights concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in the central coast counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey since 1984. BAYMEC was founded by Wiggsy Sivertsen and Ken Yeager. Wiggsy Sivertsen co-founded GALA, the Gay and Lesbian/Bisexual Student Alliance at SJSU, and helped organize the first indoor Gay Pride Day Celebration at SJSU in 1975. Written on verso of photograph: "4-20-91; BAYMEC, a gay and lesbian political pac; lobbies S.J. Unified School District on behalf of gay rights." Photograph shows Wiggsy Sivertsen at the podium.
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
7 X 8.5 in.
Identifier
islandora:80_553
filename: sahl_politics_009
oclc: 601585160
islandora: 80_553
Language
English
Subject
Activists
Gays
Gay rights
Lesbians
Meetings
Gay culture
San Jose Unified School District
Sivertsen, Wiggsy
Place
San Jose
California
Relation
Ted Sahl Collection

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