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Title: Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd papers
Dates: 1972 - 1996
Collection Number: 1995-23
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 9 linear feet (4 cartons and 1 large box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd (they/them) was born in Paris, Kentucky on February 21, 1951 and died in Louisville, Kentucky on
March 3rd, 2021. Their activist career spanned from the early 1970’s to the 2020 George Floyd protests. The Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn
Llwyd papers include organizational documents, fliers, correspondence, biographical material, photographs, ephemera, and clothing
documenting their career as an activist in San Francisco from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Funding for processing this collection was provided by the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Copyright has not been transferred to GLBT Historical Society.
[Identification of item]. Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd papers. Collection Number: 1995-23. GLBT Historical Society
Biography/Administrative History
Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd (they/them) was born in Paris, Kentucky on February 21, 1951 and died in Louisville, Kentucky on
March 3rd, 2021. Their activist career spanned from the early 1970’s to the 2020 George Floyd protests. They were a pioneer
in leftist coalition politics and intersectionality, and often emphasized the necessity of the Gay Liberation Movement to
form coalitions with other political movements such as anti-racism, anti-imperialism, feminism, prison abolition and socialism.
A longtime survivor of AIDS, they were a founding member of the AIDS Action Pledge in 1986, which developed into ACT UP. Some
of the many notable protests and demonstrations they co-organized included the 1987 March on Washington, the 1987 Burroughs-Wellcome
protest, the Midnight Caller protests in 1988, the FDA Occupation in 1988, and the Golden Gate Bridge Blockade in 1989. When
not doing grassroots organization, they worked as a research assistant at UCSF for AIDS Prevention studies. During the last
years of their life they came out as a “non-binary and genderqueer member of the transgender community” and adopted the name
“Tryfan”.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains the professional, personal, and organizational papers and documents, ephemera of Tryfan Llwyd.
AIDS (disease)
Journalism
Nonbinary people
Transgender people
Activism
LGBTQ
Incarcerated people
Gay men
Gender nonconformity
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)