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Finding aid to the Douglas Conrad collection, 1991-2005
Coll2013.095
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Title: Douglas Conrad collection
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013.095
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.4 linear foot.
1 archive carton.
Date (inclusive): 1991-2005
Abstract: Photographs, a transcript, typescripts, clippings, and promotional flyers and pamphlets documenting the gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender communities in Hungary, Poland and Serbia, 1991-2005, collected by San Francisco gay activist, Douglas Conrad.
The collection includes documents from Shades of Red and Pink, an oral history project begun by Conrad to document GLBT people
in Eastern European countries.
creator:
Conrad, Douglas
"[Douglas Conrad] has been active in the US Lesbian/Gay community for nearly two decades. He has worked on the steering committee
of the 1987 March On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, co-chaired the 1988 San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade
and Celebration, and has been conducting and developing an archive of Oral Histories of sexual minorities in nine Eastern/Central
European countries since 1991. He co-produced the first Siberian Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and the 1997, 98, and 99 Budapest
International Lesbian/Gay Film Festivals."
Source:
Box 1, Folder 9, Douglas Conrad Collection, Coll2013-095, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of
Southern California.
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
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.
Gift of Douglas Conrad, October 6, 2006.
[Box/folder #, or item name] Douglas Conrad Collection, Coll2013-095, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Loni Shibuyama, October 2013.
The collection includes photographs, a transcript, typescripts, clippings and promotional flyers and pamphlets documenting
the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in Hungary, Poland and Serbia, 1991-2005, collected by San Francisco
gay activist, Douglas Conrad. Notably, the collection includes documents from Shades of Red and Pink, an oral history project
begun by Conrad to document GLBT people in nine Eastern European countries; photographs of GLBT communities in Poland and
Hungary in 1991; and materials from a cross-cultural GLBT exchange program between Belgrade, Budapest and San Francisco.
Douglas Conrad's Shades of Red and Pink project documents are at the beginning of this collection. The remaining files are
arranged alphabetically.
The following publications have been separated from the collection and cataloged in the ONE Archives' periodicals database:
Labrisz: Leszbikus Lap, Budapest, 1996-1997 (3 issues).
San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade and Celebration program, "Parade '88: Rightfully Proud," June 26, 1988.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Budapest (Hungary)
Gay and lesbian film festivals
Gay pride festivals--Budapest (Hungary)
Photographs
Poland
Transcripts