Richard Andrews papers
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2015
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Title: Richard Andrews papers
Dates: 1981-1994
Collection Number: MSS 2000-42
Creator/Collector:
Andrews, Richard Lee
Extent: 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Repository:
UC San Francisco. Special Collections
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Abstract: Collection contains AIDS-related material from the early epidemic in San Francisco.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the
Library & Center for Knowledge Management 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 by the researcher.
Richard Andrews papers. UC San Francisco. Special Collections
Transferred by Sally Hughes in 1998.
Biography/Administrative History
Dr. Richard Andrews is a psychiatrist and was an advocate for gay medical causes in the early AIDS epidemic in San Francisco,
California. Until his retirement he had a private psychiatric practice consisting largely of gay men. He served as consultant
in psychiatry for the Children's Home Society of California and the Social Security Administration in San Francisco. Furthermore,
he played a significant role as a physician and member of Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, a gay physicians organization,
during the early AIDS epidemic.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection contains AIDS-related material from the early epidemic in San Francisco. Sally Hughes collected the material during
an interview with Dr. Andrews for the Community Physicians Oral History Series. Materials include: newspaper clippings, correspondence,
drafts, brochures, ephemera, reports, surveys, and other publications that largely relate to the Bathhouse debate in San Francisco,
California.
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
Gay community -- California -- San Francisco
Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights
University of California, San Francisco