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Title: Pacific Pride Foundation records
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 113
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
22.3 linear feet
(6 document boxes, 4 cartons, 13 flat boxes, 1 flat file, 3 videocassettes, 3 DVDs)
Creator:
Pacific Pride Foundation
Date (inclusive): late 1970s-2015
Date (bulk): 1991-2015
Abstract: Records documenting the activities of the Pacific Pride Foundation of Santa Barbara, California, the bulk of these dating
from 1991-2015. Materials include office files and correspondence, loose photographs and photograph albums, clippings, publications,
posters, ephemera, and moving image materials.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Pacific Pride Foundation records, SBHC Mss 113. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Collette Schabram, 2017.
"Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF) began in 1976 as a Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counseling and Referral center for Gay men and Lesbians.
At that time the organization was called Western Addiction Services Program (WASP), and also offered a newsletter called The
Bulletin, which is still in publication as our monthly eBulletin. In 1984 the agency initiated the AIDS Counseling and Assistance
Program (AIDS CAP), in an effort to contend with the emerging HIV epidemic, and began offering free, anonymous HIV Testing
in 1985 as one of the first county test sites. Over the next several years the program was expanded with state and county
funding to provide HIV education and prevention to gay and bisexual men, substance abusers, and sex workers. In 1991, PPF
established the Necessities of Life Project (NOLP), a food pantry providing free food and household items to low-income HIV-positive
people and their families. That year also saw the legal name of the organization change to the Gay & Lesbian Resource Center
(GLRC). In 1994, the organization changed its name to Pacific Pride Foundation, which became the parent organization for the
GLRC as well as AIDS Project Central Coast (APCC, formerly AIDS CAP). Since its formation, Pacific Pride Foundation has become
the foremost resource for people living with HIV/AIDS and the LGBT community, both in Santa Barbara County and the coastal
communities of California between Los Angeles and San Francisco. With offices in Santa Barbara and Santa Maria, PPF is a strong,
respected leader providing high quality, compassionate health and social service programs not available through any other
organization in the county." Pacific Pride Foundation History and Mission, https://pacificpridefoundation.org/history-mission/,
accessed on December 1, 2017.
Records documenting the activities of the Pacific Pride Foundation of Santa Barbara, California, the bulk of these dating
from 1991-2015. Materials include office files and correspondence, loose photographs and photograph albums, clippings, publications,
posters and various ephemera.
Office files include bylaws, board of directors minutes, meeting notes, budgets, planning documents, reports, memos, correspondence,
research, event, and subject/issue files.
Loose photographs and albums cover such Pacific Pride events as the AIDS Walk, Waiters Dinner, and Safe Saturday Night, from
the 1990s through the 2000s. Clippings cover topics such as Gay Marriage, Hate Crime, and HIV/AIDS.
Publications include the Gay and Lesbian Resource Center and Pacific Pride
Bulletin, from the 1990s through the early 2000s.
Moving image materials include DVDs and videocassettes covering Pacific Pride public service advertisements, programs, and
events.
Materials have been arranged into the following series: 1. Office files, 2. Publications, 3. Photographs, 4. Clippings, 5.
Artifacts and graphic materials, 6. Moving images.
Issues of
The Advocate, ranging from the late sixties through the 1970s and 1980s, have been separated for cataloging, and are available for access
through the UC Santa Barbara online library catalog.
Santa Barbara gay and lesbian newsletters, brochures and other material (SBHC Mss 114), Department of Special Research Collections,
UC Santa Barbara Library.
AIDS: Counseling and Assistance Program collection (SBHC Mss 116), Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gays -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Lesbians -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Sexual minorities -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Gay community -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Lesbian community -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Sexual minority community -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Gay pride celebrations -- California -- Santa Barbara County -- History
Gay rights -- California -- Santa Barbara County -- History
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention
AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- California -- Santa Barbara County
HIV infections -- Prevention
HIV infections -- Treatment -- California -- Santa Barbara County
HIV-positive persons -- Services for -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
DVDs
Ephemera (general object genre)
Office files
Photographs
Posters
Publications (documents)
Videocassettes
Pacific Pride Foundation -- Archives