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1961
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Title: Diane Germain papers
Date (inclusive): 1956-2007
Collection number: 1961
Creator:
Germain, Diane
Extent:
7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Diane F. Germain is a French-American lesbian-feminist psychiatric social worker. She conducts the Lesbian History Project
and created and conducted a strength group for Women Survivors of Incest and/or childhood molestation for five years. She
was one of the founding members of Dykes on Hikes, The Lesbian Referral Services, Beautiful Lesbian Thespians and California
Women's Art Collective. She was an early principal member of the San Diego Lesbian Organization and a collective member of
both Las Hermanas and the Califia Community. She worked at Lambda Archives throughout the 1990s interviewing women for history
and gathering collections. She later returned to serve as the Student Volunteer Coordinator. She was the staff cartoonist
for
HotWire: The Journal of Women's Music,
Culture of Chicago and
Lesbian News. The collection contains materials from activist organizations in which Germain was herself involved, magazine and newspaper
clippings that included her art work, organizational records relating to the coffee house Las Hermanas, and presentations
meant for the Califia Community. Materials also include video tapes of community events and speakers, as well as a significant
amount of ephemera and realia.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Diane Germain, 1998. This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L.
Mazer Lesbian Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library.
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
[Identification of item], Diane Germain papers (Collection Number 1961). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
Diane F. Germain is a French-American lesbian-feminist psychiatric social worker. She conducts the Lesbian History Project
and created and conducted a strength group for Women Survivors of Incest and/or childhood molestation for five years. She
was one of the founding members of Dykes on Hikes, The Lesbian Referral Services, Beautiful Lesbian Thespians and California
Women's Art Collective. She was an early principal member of the San Diego Lesbian Organization and a collective member of
both Las Hermanas and the Califia Community. She worked at Lambda Archives throughout the 1990s interviewing women for history
and gathering collections. She later returned to serve as the Student Volunteer Coordinator. She was the staff cartoonist
for
HotWire: The Journal of Women's Music,
Culture of Chicago and
Lesbian News. She is featured in both the anthology
Tomboys! edited by Lynne Yamaguchi and Karen Barber and
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology.
Diane Germain was not only interested in documenting her own experiences, but also in documenting the representation of women
in the media as well as preserving lesbian culture on the whole for posterity. Therefore, the content of this collection is
varied. The collection contains materials from activist organizations in which Germain was herself involved, as well as information
and resources for other like-minded organizations. She also collected magazine and newspaper clippings that included her art
work. Financial documents and other organizational records relating to the coffee house Las Hermanas and presentations meant
for the Califia Community are included in the collection. Materials also include video tapes of community events and speakers,
as well as a significant amount of ephemera and realia.
Materials are arranged by subject.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Lesbian activists --United States --Archival resources.
Women social workers --United States --Archival resources.
Some related materials can be found in the
Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Collection 1964-1994
, located in UCLA Special Collections. Materials related to many of the organizations with which Diane Germain worked and
attempted to help preserve can be found in the Lambda Archives in San Diego.