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Olympics Out of Cobb County records
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Contributing Institution:
ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Olympics Out of Cobb County records
Creator:
Weaver, Jon-Ivan
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013-053
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/9/resources/1992
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
1 archive box + 5 T-shirts + 2 banners.
Date (inclusive): 1990-1998
Abstract: Correspondence, photographs, letters of support, notebooks, anti-gay material, flyers, press releases, banners, T-shirts,
clippings, stamps, audiocassettes, a videocassette and other material from Olympics Out of Cobb County (OOCC), 1990-1998,
as well as OOCC co-founder, Jon-Ivan Weaver. OOCC formed in 1994 as a grassroots response by individuals and organizations
to the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games' (ACOG) decision to hold the volleyball competition of the 1996 Olympic Games
in Cobb County, Georgia. Cobb County came under fire from gay rights groups in 1993 when the Cobb County Board of Commissioners
passed an anti-gay resolution condemning the "gay lifestyle."
Language of Material:
English
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Pat Hussain and Jon-Ivan Weaver founded Olympics Out of Cobb County (OOCC) in February 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia. OOCC formed
as a grassroots response by individuals and organizations to the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games' (ACOG) decision
to hold the volleyball competition of the 1996 Olympic Games in Cobb County, Georgia. Cobb County came under fire from gay
rights groups including Cobb Citizens Coalition in 1993 when the Cobb County board of commissioners, led by Gordon Wysong,
passed an anti-gay resolution condemning the "gay lifestyle." Cobb Citizens Coalition began organizing for a repeal of the
resolution and a boycott of Cobb County.
OOCC successfully staged a campaign of protests, letter writing and outreach in order to first remove the volleyball competition
from Cobb County, and later to block the Olympic torch relay from passing through Cobb County. Organizations who helped and
endorsed the work of OOCC included ACT-UP, Dykes & Faggots Bash Back, Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the Lesbian Avengers.
Sources :
Olympics Out of Cobb County Records, Coll2013-053, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California.
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Donated by Jon-Ivan Weaver, January 20, 1999. Weaver donated additional materials to the collection on April 7, 2018.
[Box/folder #, or item name] Olympics Out of Cobb County Records, Coll2013-053, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Formerly boxes 103-240 and 103-241. Collection processed by Lane Goldszer, May 2013. The finding aid was updated in 2024 to
reflect additional materials that were donated in 2018.
The collection comprises correspondence, photographs, letters of support, flyers, press releases, stickers, banners, T-shirts,
clippings, stamps, letterhead and other material from Olympics Out of Cobb County, 1990-1998. Included are articles relating
to bigotry in Cobb County, such as copies of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners' anti-gay resolution, a Neighbors Network
report on anti-gay groups in Georgia, documentation of racist merchandise for sale in Cobb County, as well as hate mail and
voice recordings received by Cobb Citizens Coalition.
The collection also contains a number of personal items that belonged to co-founder Jon-Ivan Weaver, including domestic partnership
papers, an appointment book, speech notes, notepads, a videotape birthday tribute and a T-shirt and letter that Weaver delivered
to Shirley Franklin the senior policy advisor for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) at the beginning of the
campaign.
An index to the collection is at the beginning of the collection. The remaining folders are arranged alphabetically.
The following books have been separated from this collection and added to the ONE Archives library:
Dumesnil, Cheryl, ed. Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005. (autographed
by Diego Francisco Sans)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay activists
Lesbian activists
Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.)
Demonstrations