The Gael Sapiro papers contain materials related to her involvement with women's music in the 1970s, and her anti-violence work and political activism in the 1980s.

Gael Sapiro was involved in women’s music in the mid-seventies, and in anti-violence work in the early 1980s. As a college student at UC Riverside, Sapiro put on a women’s music radio program inspiring her to produce a festival for the Bay Area. Sapiro found other women interested in organizing a festival by posting flyers; the resulting group was organized as Succulent Productions in 1976. Succulent presented three local concerts of women’s music in an effort to gain experience in organizing music events. However, these concerts proved difficult to produce and the group disbanded around 1978. In 1982, Sapiro become a member of the board of Community United Against Violence (CUAV). As a board member, Sapiro coordinated security for the annual Halloween event in the Castro, working with police and organizing 200 volunteer security monitors to protect against anti-gay violence. She was also involved in security at various other local events. Through her involvement with CUAV, Sapiro maintained close relationships with other anti-violence groups. She continues to be involved with CUAV until 1985. In this period, Sapiro also ran a successful campaign to become the Public Relations Director for the Alice B. Toklas Memorial Democratic Club, and worked as a consultant for the Board of Frameline during that organization’s early attempts to formalize their structure.

2 linear feet (2 cartons)

Copyright has been trasferred to the GLBT Historical Society.

The records are open for research, with the exception of one folder of personnel records. Funding for processing this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).