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Guide to the Dick Hitt Files on Gays and Lesbians in Orange County, California
MS.R.124
MS.R.124
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Title: Dick Hitt files on gays and lesbians in Orange County, California
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.124
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.7 linear feet
(2 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1978-2008 and undated
Abstract: This collection contains materials collected by Dick Hitt from 1978-2008 documenting gay and lesbian employees of the Disneyland
Resort in Anaheim, California, as well as LGBT news and events in the Orange County area and beyond. Included are newsletters,
fliers, reports, brochures, photographs, correspondence, and printed and non-printed ephemera. Many records document the activities
of the PRIDE organization at the Disneyland Resort and other Disney Diversity Resource Group events and publications.
Creator:
Hitt, Dick
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Dick Hitt files on gays and lesbians in Orange County, California. MS-R124. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Gift of Dick Hitt, 2005, 2007, and 2009.
Processed by Sara Seltzer, 2013.
Dick Hitt is a retired employee of the Disneyland Resort Finance Department in Anaheim, California, and active member of the
LGBT community of Orange County. While at Disney in the mid-1990s, Hitt served as historian for Lesbian and Gay United Employees
(LEAGUE), a Diversity Resource Group of the Resort. He later became a member of the core team of People Respecting Individual
Diversities in Everyone (PRIDE), a Diversity Resource Group developed in the early 2000s that held its first meeting in 2006.
Hitt has also contributed to the Orange County Historical LGBT Timeline project started by Barbara Muirhead in 1995.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection contains materials collected by Dick Hitt from 1978-2008 documenting gay and lesbian employees of the Disneyland
Resort in Anaheim, California, as well as LGBT news and events in the Orange County area and beyond. Included are newsletters,
fliers, reports, brochures, photographs, correspondence, and printed and non-printed ephemera. Many records document the activities
of the PRIDE organization at the Disneyland Resort and other Disney Diversity Resource Group events and publications.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
The following publication was removed from this collection and cataloged separately in Special Collections and Archives:
The Disneyland Resort Line. Anaheim, CA: Cast Communications, circa 1991-2008.
Related materials can be found in the following collections in the Department of Special Collections and Archives:
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Disneyland (Calif.) -- Archives.
Buttons (Information artifacts)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Fliers (Printed matter).
Newsletters
Orange County (Calif.) -- Archives
Publications