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Orange County Group Documents on Gays and
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MS.R.156
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Orange County Group documents on gays and homosexuality
Creator:
Orange County Group
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.156
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1974-1977
Abstract: This collection consists of photocopies
of several internal documents from the Orange County Group, a Marxist-Leninist study group
that formed within and eventually broke its ties with the August 29th Movement. Documents
include "Towards the development of the correct Marxist-Leninist position on the Gay
question," 35 pp., "On the relation of the sexes," 10 pp., "The Gay Question," 7 pp., a
theoretical document that begins "Sexual relations need redefining," 2 pp., and three
stapled packets of photocopied published documents. The documents were kept together by an
unidentified activist.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in
English.
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Orange County Group Documents on Gays and Homosexuality. MS-R156. Special Collections and
Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquired, 2012.
Processed by Audra Eagle Yun, 2012.
The Orange County Group was a Marxist-Leninist study group that formed within and
eventually broke from the August 29th Movement (ATM), a Chicano communist organization that
took its name from the historic August 29, 1970 Chicano Moratorium demonstration against the
Vietnam War in Los Angeles, California. According to Orange County Group documents, the
group decided to break its ties with the ATM when "ATM directed the leader of our study
group to expel the gay comrades in our group." The group's writings argued for the removal
of existing negative attitude towards gay issues in the Marxist-Leninist movement.
This collection consists of photocopies of several internal documents from the Orange
County Group, a Marxist-Leninist study group that formed within and eventually broke its
ties with the August 29th Movement. Documents include "Towards the development of the
correct Marxist-Leninist position on the Gay question," 35 pp., missing title page,
otherwise complete; "On the relation of the sexes," 10 pp.,; "The Gay Question," 7 pp.,
writing in margins has been blotted out but is barely legible; a theoretical document that
begins "Sexual relations need redefining," 2 pp., and two stapled packets of photocopied
published documents including a debate about the Venceremos Brigade adapting to Cuban mores
regarding gays and William Hinton's perspective on the gay question in China. Some of these
materials may have been issued by other organizations, but the documents were kept together
in a folder by an unidentified activist.
This collection is not arranged.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gays -- California -- Orange County -- Archives.
Gay rights -- California -- Orange County -- History --
Sources
Communism and sex
August 29th Movement (Marxist-Leninist)
Orange County Group -- Archives