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Title: Health Outreach Team records
Dates: 1985-2002
Collection Number: 2023-90
Creator/Collector:
Health Outreach Team
Extent: 10.4 linear feet (8 cartons and 1 manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Founded by Geoffrey Froner and Stefan Rowniak, the Health Outreach Team (HOT) was an organization “engaged in street-based
AIDS education and health care management” in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood from 1987 through 1996. In a 1989 article,
Froner and Rowniak explained that “indigent people, particularly those of racial or ethnic minority groups and those engaged
in illicit drug use” were the focus of HOT. Records in this collection also highlight men who have sex with men (MSM) and
trans people. Correspondence, memoranda, meeting notes, scientific articles, newspaper clippings, field notes, daily client
logs, and photographs document HOTs operations and interactions between outreach workers and clients. Also included are dozens
of VHS and U-Matic tapes with street interviews in the Tenderloin, extended interviews with clients in residential hotels,
recordings of news segments, and educational videos about AIDS.
Language of Material: English
The collection is unprocessed. The collection includes protected health information. Material with protected health information
is restricted until 2046. Other material in the collection may be available to researchers under supervision of the Archivist.
Please contact the Archivist for more information.
Copyright to materials created by Stefan Rowniak has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions
and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
Copyright to other materials in the collection may be held by their creators, or the creators' heirs or assigns. Transmission
or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the
copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
[Identification of item]. Health Outreach Team records. Collection Number: 2023-90. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Stefan Rowniak, September 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
Founded by Geoffrey Froner and Stefan Rowniak, the Health Outreach Team (HOT) was an organization “engaged in street-based
AIDS education and health care management” in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood from 1987 through 1996. In a 1989 article,
Froner and Rowniak explained that “indigent people, particularly those of racial or ethnic minority groups and those engaged
in illicit drug use” were the focus of HOT. Records in this collection also highlight men who have sex with men (MSM) and
trans people. Correspondence, memoranda, meeting notes, scientific articles, newspaper clippings, field notes, daily client
logs, and photographs document HOTs operations and interactions between outreach workers and clients. Also included are dozens
of VHS and U-Matic tapes with street interviews in the Tenderloin, extended interviews with clients in residential hotels,
recordings of news segments, and educational videos about AIDS.
LGBTQ
People of color
Transgender people
AIDS (disease)
Substance use
Tenderloin (San Francisco, Calif.)