Finding Aid to the Phill Wilson Papers, 1967-2000 Coll2014.125
Kyle Morgan
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007
(213) 821-2771
askone@usc.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Phill Wilson papers
creator:
Wilson, Phill
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014.125
Physical Description:
3.7 Linear Feet
2 archive boxes + 1 archive flat box
Date (inclusive): 1967-2000
Abstract: Applications, awards, calendars, clippings, correspondence, event records, fliers, mailing lists, manuals, meeting minutes
and agendas, notes, pamphlets, programs, receipts, reports, speech transcripts, statistics, and writings documenting Phill
Wilson's involvement in AIDS-related conferences, events, political campaigns, and organizations, 1967-2000. Phill Wilson
has worked on AIDS-related services and activism for the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, AIDS Project Los Angeles,
AIDS Medicine and Miracles, ACT UP, National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum, Southern California AIDS Social Policy
Archives at the University of Southern California, National Minority AIDS Council, National Task Force on AIDS Prevention,
Chris Brownlie Hospice, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles County Gay Men of Color Consortium, Cities Advocating Emergency
AIDS Relief, Black AIDS Institute, Health Resources and Services Administration AIDS Advisory Committee, and President’s Advisory
Council on HIV/AIDS, among others.
Conditions Governing Access
The Administrative Records file is closed to researchers during Phill Wilson's lifetime. There are otherwise 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.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] Phill Wilson Papers, Coll2014-125, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Processing Information
Part of the collection was formerly housed in record box #102-1.
Collection processed by Kyle Morgan, 2014.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Date and method of acquisition unknown.
Separated Materials
Separated to the ONE Archives periodical collection:
Accountability Action, v.1, no.2; v.2, no.3, 1997-1998.
The Active Voice, Spring 1998
AIDS, Medicine, & Miracles, v.7, no.2, Winter 1997.
AIX, AIDS Information eXchange, v.13, no.4, October 1997.
Art and Understanding, no.46, 48, August, October 1998.
Aware, Veterans C.A.R.E., February-March 1988.
California HIV/AIDS Update, v.10, no.3, July 1997.
Catalyst, Public Policy at AIDS Project Los Angeles, v.2, no.2, 3; v.3, no.1, 2; v.4, no.2; v.5, no.1, 2, 3, 1993-1996. (Phil
Wilson wrote a column called Insights from volumes 2-5)
The Daily Ride, California AIDS Ride 4, day 3, 4, 7; California AIDS Ride 3, day 2, 3; Chicago AIDS Ride 2, day 3
Etcetera, no.827, October 29, 1997.
Gay and Lesbian Times, no.518, November 26, 1997.
The Guide, v.16, no.7, July 1996.
Harvard AIDS Review, Spring 1997.
HIV/AIDS Reporter, AmFAR, v.1, January 1997.
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, v.8, no.2.
In Focus, Project Inform, no.2, Winter 1997.
LAMS Newsletter, April 1997.
Legislative Report Cards, AIDS Project Los Angeles, 1994, 1995-1996 (104th Congress)
Medical Alert, The National Association of People with AIDS, no.1, 1998.
NATAP Reports, National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project, v.1, no.1, 2, 3 1997-1998.
Notes from the Underground, People with AIDS Working for Health Inc., no.39, Spring 1999.
Perspective, Project Inform, no.23, November 1997.
SIECUS Report, v.26, no.2, December 1997 – January 1998.
Southern California HIV Treatment Directory, v.1, no.2, 4, 1991-1992.
Treatment Review, no.21, April 1996.
The Weekly Alternative, v.1, no.1, November 2-26, 1997.
Whazzup! Magazine, v. 2, no.4, August 1997.
Women’s TX News, Women’s Treatment Project, v.1, no.1, Winter 1999.
Separated to the Non-LGBT Newspaper and Magazine Front Page collections:
Daily News, Los Angeles Edition, “County’s AIDS crisis over, specialist says.” September 12, 1997.
The New York Time Magazine, “When AIDS Ends,” November 10, 1996.
Separated to the ONE Archives catalog collection:
Catalog of HIV and AIDS Educational Resources, Spring 1994.
SIECUS Sexuality Information Catalog, 1998.
Separated to the ONE Archives library:
Blasius, Mark and Shane Phelan (ed.). We Are Everywhere. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Separated to the ONE Archives pamphlet collection:
AIDS Project Los Angeles, Writers’ Workshop. Put into Words. 1995.
AIDS Treatment Data Network. Should I Join an AIDS Drug Trial?
Bobby Goldsmith Foundation Annual Report, 1996.
California AIDS Ride 2, official rider’s map book. May 14-20, 1995.
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services AIDS Programs. HIV/AIDS: A Guide to Services for Los Angeles County. January
1995.
Markowitz, Martin. International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care. Protease Inhibitors: A New Family of Drugs for the
Treatment of HIV Infection.
The National Association of People with AIDS. Do you Know your Options? October 1996.
People for the American Way. Hostile Climate: A State by State Report on Anti-Gay Activity. 1995.
Ryan, Caitlin and Donna Futterman. Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling. 1997.
Separated to the ONE Archives program collection:
8th International Conference for People Living with HIV/AIDS. “Basic Needs – Basic Rights.” Chiang Mai, Thailand. November
5-12, 1997.
California AIDS Ride 2, 3, and 5. Presented by Tanqueray, 1995-1998.
Christopher Street West, Los Angeles, 1986, 1987, 1990, and 1991.
Deadly Diseases and People of Color: Are Clinical Trials and Option. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Howard University
College of Medicine, Mid-Atlantic AIDS Education and Training Center, and D.C. Local Performance Site at Howard University.
Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C. October 25, 1996.
GNP and North America Regional Meeting, Toronto, Canada. September 4, 5, and 6, 1997.
Leading for Life: The AIDS Crisis Among African Americans. A report from the first Leading for Life Summit, October 22, 1996.
National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference. Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum. February 17-20, 1989.
Spirit of Hope Awards. Being Alive, People with HIV/AIDS Action Coalition. 1996.
Third International Conference on Nutrition and HIV Infection: Pathophysiology and Management. April 22-25, 1999.
Washington, D.C. AIDS Ride. Presented by Tanqueray, June 19-22, 1997.
Separated to the ONE Archives sticker collection:
Blue text on yellow background: “THE COST IS TOO HIGH / NO ON 96 NO ON 102 / NO ON 96 & 102 P.O. BOX 794, LOS ANGELES, CA
90078 (213) 933-5881 DORIS S. STUBBLEFIELD, TREAS. ID 881407” (bumper sticker)
White text on blue background with an outline of people holding hands in orange across the middle: “Hand in Hand. / Gegen
AIDS. / Eine Initiative des Bayerischen Gesundheitsministeriums”
Separated to the ONE Archives poster collection:
A Forca Da Mudanca: Com Os Jovens Em Campanha Contra AIDS. UNAIDS. “Bons jogadores se protegem.”
Separated to the AIDS history project collection:
Advanced HIV Disease (AIDS) Surveillance Summary, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services HIV Epidemiology Program,
July 15, 1997.
Projections of the Numbers of Persons Diagnosed with AIDS and of Immunosuppressed HIV-Infected Persons, 1992-1994. United
States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. February
1993.
Biographical / Historical
Phill Wilson graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1977 from Illinois Wesleyan University. He was the HIV health
commissioner co-chair for Los Angeles County (1990-1995), AIDS coordinator for the City of Los Angeles (1990-1993), and director
of policy and planning for AIDS Project Los Angeles (1993-1996). He was a board member of AIDS Medicine and Miracles, board
member emeritus of the National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum (1986-1988), and director of the Southern California
AIDS Social Policy Archives at the University of Southern California (1996-1998). He was involved in the founding of the National
Minority AIDS Council (1988), National Task Force on AIDS Prevention (1988), Chris Brownlie Hospice (1988), AIDS Healthcare
Foundation (1986), Los Angeles County Gay Men of Color Consortium, National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum (1987),
and Cities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief. He has worked with AIDS organizations such as ACT UP, Harvard AIDS Institute,
and the Treatment Action Group (TAG).
Wilson was one of President Bill Clinton’s appointees to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) AIDS Advisory
Committee (1995-1998). He was appointed to the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) by President Barack Obama
(2010). Wilson was a member of the United States delegation to the 1994 World AIDS Summit in Paris and has worked on HIV/AIDS
policy, research, prevention, and treatment issues in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Holland, Germany, France, South
Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, India, Botswana and Mexico. He was the coordinator of the International Community Treatment
and Science Workshop at the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th International AIDS Conferences.
Wilson has published articles in the AOL Black Voices, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Los Angeles Weekly, Essence, Ebony,
VIBE, Jet, POZ, HIV+ and Arise. He is a recipient of the Delta Spirit Award and the Discovery Health Channel Medical Honor.
He was named one of the Ford Foundation’s 20 recipients for the Leadership for a Changing World Awards (2001), one of Black
Entertainment Television’s “2005 Black History Makers in the Making,” one of Essence Magazine’s top 25 most influential African
Americans (2008), one of Ebony Magazine’s Power 150 (2009), and on the POZ 100 List of “the most dogged and downright effective
AIDS fighters” working toward a cure (2010). As of 2014, Wilson was the president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, the
only national HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on African Americans.
Sources:
https://www.blackaids.org/aboutus/press
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/10312.htm
Biographical materials, box 1, folder 8
Scope and Contents
Applications, awards, calendars, clippings, correspondence, event records, fliers, mailing lists, manuals, meeting minutes
and agendas, notes, pamphlets, programs, receipts, reports, speech transcripts, statistics, and writings of Phill Wilson,
1967-2000. The collection primarily documents Wilson's involvement in AIDS-related conferences, events, political campaigns,
and organizations from 1987-1998, including those specifically serving the African-American community.
Arrangement
The records are arranged in alphabetical order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
AIDS activists -- California -- Los Angeles
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients, Services for -- California -- Los Angeles County
African American gay men
Wilson, Phill
Wilson, Phill -- Archives
Box 1, Folder 1-3
ACT UP administrative records
1987-1998
Box 3, Folder 1
ACT UP and other gay activist materials
November 1992 - February 1993
Box 3, Folder 2
Administrative records
1992-1998
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted.
Box 1, Folder 4
AIDS National Interfaith Network administrative records
1997
Scope and Contents
Includes AIDS, Medicine and Miracles materials.
Box 1, Folder 5
AIDS resource material
1995-1998
Box 1, Folder 6
AIDS statistics
1991-1997
Box 1, Folder 7
Archival policy information and forms
1977-1979
Box 1, Folder 8
Biographical materials
1998
Box 1, Folder 10
Californians for AIDS Research and Education (CARE) administrative records
1988
Box 3, Folder 3
Certificates of commendation
1967-1999
Box 1, Folder 11
Cities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief (CAEAR) administrative records
1998
Box 1, Folder 15-20
Conference materials
1995-1998
Scope and Contents
Includes materials on the Counterpart Conference, Hope '97 Conference, National Skills Building Conference and Candlelight
March, New Challenges to Journalists Reporting on AIDS Roundtable, and Positive Colors: Gay Men of Color HIV Treatment Conference.
Box 1, Folder 21-23
Contacts, notes, and messages
1995-1998
Box 3, Folder 5
Easel pads with brainstorming notes
undated
Box 1, Folder 26
Ephemera
1997-1998
Scope and Contents
Primarily comprises LGBT-related promotional material.
Box 1, Folder 28
Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) administrative records
1998
Box 2, Folder 7
Gay Entertainment Television
1997, undated
Box 2, Folder 8
Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP)
1997
Box 2, Folder 10
Harvard AIDS Institute administrative records
1996-1997
Box 1, Folder 29
Graphics and sketches
undated
Box 2, Folder 11
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission event records
1997-1998
Box 2, Folder 12
Keystone Center administrative records
1997
Box 2, Folder 13
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) administrative records
1989-1990
Box 2, Folder 1-6
Mailing lists, phone lists, and database files
1995-1997, undated
Box 2, Folder 15
Midwest AIDS Training and Education Partners (MATEP) administrative records
1997-1998
Box 2, Folder 16
National Association of People with AIDS administrative records
1997-1998
Box 2, Folder 9
Glaxo Welcome press releases and protocols
1997-2000
Box 2, Folder 17-18
National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum administrative records
1995-1998
Box 2, Folder 19
National Minority AIDS Council administrative records
1990-1997
Box 2, Folder 29-32
Plaques of commendation
1985-1995
Box 2, Folder 33
Pocket seal embosser
undated
Scope and Contents
The embossing reads Southern California HIV Treatment Directory, Inc.
Box 2, Folder 21
Proposition 215 campaign records
1995-1996
Box 2, Folder 23
Southern California AIDS Social Policy Archive (SOCASPA) administrative records
1993-1998
Box 2, Folder 25-26
T-shirt exhibit materials
1993-1998
Box 2, Folder 27
Treatment Action Group (TAG), Mark Harrington correspondence
1997