Finding aid to the Olympics Out of Cobb County records, 1990-1998
Coll2013-053
Lane Goldszer
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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
.
Administrative History
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.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Acquisition
Donated by Jon-Ivan Weaver, January 20, 1999. Weaver donated additional materials to the collection on April 7, 2018.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] Olympics Out of Cobb County Records, Coll2013-053, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Processing Information
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Arrangement
An index to the collection is at the beginning of the collection. The remaining folders are arranged alphabetically.
Separated Materials
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
Olympics Out of Cobb County records /repositories/9/archival_objects/313758
Box 1, Folder 1
Index to collection /repositories/9/archival_objects/313759
circa 1990-1998
Item BAN142-143
Banners /repositories/9/archival_objects/313760
circa 1990-1996
Box 1, Folder 2
Business cards and phone numbers /repositories/9/archival_objects/313761
1994
Box 1, Folder 34
Clippings /repositories/9/archival_objects/679386
1993
Box 1, Folder 3-14
Clippings /repositories/9/archival_objects/313762
1994-1996
Container Summary: [12 folders]
Box 1, Folder 15
Cobb County resolution and Neighbors Network reports /repositories/9/archival_objects/313763
1992-1994
Box 1, Folder 16-17
Correspondence /repositories/9/archival_objects/313764
1994
Container Summary: [2 folders]
Box 1, Folder 18
Correspondence from Jon-Ivan Weaver to Shirley Franklin /repositories/9/archival_objects/313765
1994
Box 1, Folder 19
Correspondence, International Olympic Commission and Atlanta Commission for the Olympic Games /repositories/9/archival_objects/313766
1994
Box 1, Folder 20
Correspondence, letters of support from organizations and officials /repositories/9/archival_objects/313767
1994
Box 1, Folder 35
Correspondence, politicians /repositories/9/archival_objects/679387
1993-1994
Box 1, Folder 21
Flyers and leaflets /repositories/9/archival_objects/313768
circa 1994-1996
Box 1, Folder 22
Hate merchandise in Cobb County /repositories/9/archival_objects/313769
circa 1990-1998
Box 1, Item AC1831
Hate messages to Cobb Citizens Coalition /repositories/9/archival_objects/313770
March - April 1994
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette.
Box 1, Folder 23
Identification badges /repositories/9/archival_objects/313771
1994-1995
Box 1, Item AC1832
Out of Cobb: Trial by Fire, 8th Creating Change /repositories/9/archival_objects/313772
November 1995
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette.
Box 1, Folder 24
Photographs /repositories/9/archival_objects/313773
1990-1996
Box 1, Folder 25
Press releases, notes and flyers /repositories/9/archival_objects/313774
1994
Box 1, Folder 39
Rubber stamps: "Olympics Out Of Cobb County" and "Gay Money" /repositories/9/archival_objects/313775
circa 1990-1996
Box 1, Folder 36
Sans, Diego F., clipping /repositories/9/archival_objects/679388
circa 1993
Box 1, Folder 26
Speech notes /repositories/9/archival_objects/313776
1994
Box 1, Folder 38
Spiked! Olympics out of Cobb, by Pat Hussain and Jon-Ivan Weaver
/repositories/9/archival_objects/679390
1996
Scope and Contents
Inscribed books.
Box 1, Folder 27
Stickers /repositories/9/archival_objects/313777
circa 1990-1998
Item GAR0926-0929
T-shirts /repositories/9/archival_objects/313778
1990-1996
Box 1, Folder 28
Weaver, Jon-Ivan address and appointment book /repositories/9/archival_objects/313779
1994
Box 1, Folder 37
Weaver, Jon-Ivan and Diego F. Sans domestic partner documents and clippings /repositories/9/archival_objects/679389
1993
Box 1, Folder 29
Weaver, Jon-Ivan biographical papers /repositories/9/archival_objects/313780
1993
Box 1, Folder 30
Weaver, Jon-Ivan notes /repositories/9/archival_objects/313781
circa 1994
Box 1, Folder 31-33
Weaver, Jon-Ivan notepads /repositories/9/archival_objects/313782
1994-1996
Container Summary: [3 folders]
Box 1, Item VV2800
Weaver, Jon-Ivan; A Tribute to Jon-Ivan on His 45th Birthday /repositories/9/archival_objects/313783
February 19, 1998
Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS).
