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Campbell (Bobbi) Diary
MSS 96-33
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections
Title: Bobbi Campbell diary
Creator:
Campbell, Robert
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 96-33
Physical Description:
1 box
.2 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1983-1984
Abstract: The diary of Bobbi Campbell, nurse, nurse practitioner student, and self-identified "AIDS Poster Boy." Campbell was one of
the first, and most public People with AIDS (PWA's), speaking at numerous conferences and other events. The diary runs from
July 1983 through February 1984 and is a very frank description of his life and activities during these seven months. Numerous
snapshots are also included in the collection.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/ .
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Julia Bazar
- Date Completed:
- March 2007
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manager of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the UCSF Library and 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 reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials.
[Identification of item], Bobbi Campbell Diary, MSS 96-33, The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives
and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
MSS 96-31 Angie Lewis Papers
MSS 98-39 Marcus A. Conant Papers
MSS 2000-31 AIDS History Project Ephemera Collection
MSS 2000-32 AIDS History Project Audio/Video Collection
Bobbi Campbell's diary was given to Sally Smith Hughes by Angie Lewis, in connection with interviews for The
AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of the Nursing Profession, 1981-1984, Volume II, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Sally Smith Hughes
then donated the diary to the UCSF Library in 1996.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by Julia Bazar in 2006.
Bobbi Campbell was born January 29, 1951. He was "thirty-one and a half" when he started this journal on July 28, 1983. He
was one of the early men diagnosed with AIDS. Bobbi Campbell worked as a nurse and then sought further training as a nurse
practitioner. Campbell also lectured and appeared at conferences and symposia as the "AIDS Poster Boy," and was active with
the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of a handwritten diary kept by Bobbi Campbell, nurse, nurse practitioner student, and self-identified
"AIDS Poster Boy." Campbell was one of the first, and most public People with AIDS (PWA's), speaking at numerous conferences
and other events. The diary runs from July 1983 through February 1984 and is a very frank description of his life and activities
during these seven months. Numerous snapshots are also included in the collection.
The diary chronicles his life during this period, including speeches to various groups about living with AIDS and the concerns
of People with AIDS (PWA's), his other travels and recreational activities, and his relationship with his partner, Bobby Hilliard.
Besides date, Campbell also noted the time of his entries using a 24 hour clock, for example, the first entry starts 17:20
July 28, 1983, corresponding to 5:20 p.m. of that day, sometimes several different times are recorded under one date, meaning
that he made multiple entries at various times during that day. The diary includes many frank references to drug and alcohol
use and sex.
In addition to the diary itself, the collection contains two folders of loose material removed from the diary. First are
5 pieces of paper including menus from two dinner parties, an announcement of a Radical Fairies gathering, and a spoof of
the announcement. The other folder contains the snapshots that were stashed between many of the journal's pages. Only a few
are identified and they appear to have been randomly placed or to have been moved, since the photos of identifiable events
are often nowhere near the corresponding written description. Photographs removed from between the same pages have been kept
together in photo envelopes within the folder. Where identification is obvious it is noted on the envelope.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Kaposi's sarcoma
AIDS (Disease)--Nursing--United States
AIDS (Disease)--Patients
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects
AIDS (Disease)--Social Aspects--United States
Social Action--United States
Gay culture
Campbell, Bobbi
University of California San Francisco