Collection Contents
Series 1:
Administrative Records
circa
1968-1979
Physical Description: 24 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The Administrative records consist of the Articles of incorporation,
by-laws, minutes, and ballots for the board of directors, 1978-1979. The
information packets contain a meeting agenda, November 1968, along with later
newsletters. The remaining folders document the bail bond program, with the
Bail Bond Program file containing blank applications, on-duty call lists, and a
list of pseudonyms used by the Los Angeles Police Vice Detail. The Membership
files contain orders for membership cards and lists of members. The
Applications file contains completed applications; access to this file is
restricted, as the applications include personally identifiable
information.
Box 1 : 1
Articles of incorporation and by-laws
1969-1972
Box 1 : 2-7 ; 7 : 1
(Oversize)
Minutes
1968-1976
Physical Description: 7 folders.
Box 1 : 8-9
Ballots for board of directors
1978-1979
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 7 : 2 (Oversize)
Information packet
1968-1971
Box 1 : 11
Bail bond program and applications
1971-1978
Box 2 : 1-2
Membership card orders
1969-1976
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 3
Membership lists
1973-1977
Boxes 5-6 (Restricted)
Applications
1971-1978
Physical Description: 9 folders.
Series 2:
Correspondence
1969-1984
Physical Description: 10 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The Correspondence series contains several organized and two
unorganized folders of general correspondence. The Howard Efland folder
contains a few documents related to his alleged murder at the Dover Hotel.
Using the pseudonym J. McCann, Howard Efland checked into the Dover Hotel. In
the early morning hours of March 9, 1970, Los Angeles Police Department Vice
Detail Officers allegedly beat him to death. The Black Pipe Tavern police raid
folder documents a police raid of a HELP fundraiser and its aftermath. The
remaining arranged folders contain board of directors, Alcoholic Beverage
Control, and
Drummer newspaper subscription
correspondence. The final folder contains a scrapbook of pamphlets and flyers
by Paul Roberts, titled
Religion and the Gays.
Box 2 : 4-7
General
1969-1984
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 2 : 8
Howard Efland (pseudonym, J. McCann)
1970
Box 2 : 9
Board of directors
1970-1977
Box 2 : 10
State of California, Alcoholic Beverage
Control
1972-1973
Box 2 : 11
Black Pipe Tavern HELP fundraiser raid
1972-1975
Box 2 : 13
Religion and the Gays
1969-1972
Series 3:
Bail Bonds and Attorney Referral Records
1970-1976
Physical Description: 16 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
After being arrested a HELP member would call the phone number
provided, and contact the HELP person on duty. This person would confirm the
arrested person's membership and arrange for a bail bond if necessary. The
member would also be provided with the contact information for several
attorneys who worked with HELP. These attorneys would report back to HELP on
the status of the members' cases. This series consists of the lists of
attorneys, and reports from the attorneys on which members contacted them and
the status of their cases. The series is arranged with the referral lists
followed by the attorneys' reports, arranged alphabetically.
Box 2 : 14
Attorney referral lists
1971-1976
Box 3 : 1
Andelson, Sheldon
1971-1973
Box 3 : 2
Berg, Stanley P.
1971-1973
Box 3 : 8
Margolin, Bruce
1970-1971
Box 3 : 11
Rehkop, C. Neil
1972-1973
Box 3 : 12
Russell, Thomas
1971-1973
Box 3 : 14
Selwyn, Herbert
1971-1973
Series 4:
Financial Records
1969-1981
Physical Description: 7 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The Financial Records series contains expense and income receipts,
including bail bond bills, along with the records from such fundraisers as
Kingmasters' "Night of Stars," the Hawks' art auction, and HELP's own "The
Rides of Spring." The two folders of unorganized receipts include receipts,
bills and a check register. The bills for bail bonds were issued to non-members
or non-current members, or for arrests not covered by HELP.
Box 3 : 16-18
Expense/income receipts
1969-1981
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 3 : 20
Kingmasters' "Night of Stars" fundraiser
1972-1975
Box 3 : 21
Hawks' art auction fundraiser
1973-1975
Box 4 : 1
HELP's "The Rides of Spring" fundraiser
1977
Series 5:
Publications and Ephemera
1970-1979
Physical Description: 14 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The series consists of the newsletters, brochures, mailings, flyers,
and a "H.E.L.P.line" column in the Los Angeles gay newspaper,
Data-Boy,
by which HELP reached out to and informed its members. HELP began publishing a
newsletter in 1970. In 1972, this newsletter was superseded by the Los Angeles
newspaper
Drummer, of which HELP was a joint
publisher. However, the joint publication of
Drummer led to infighting between
members, some of whom had stakes in other local publications, and HELP's
involvement in the publication of
Drummer ceased at the end of 1973. In 1974, HELP
resumed publication of the newsletter, which continued through January 1979, when
it was superseded by
Outreach: Journal of the Homophile Effort for
Legal Protection
, which lasted just two issues. The series also
contains photographs from the newspaper and later newsletters.
Box 4 : 2-4
Newsletters
1970-1979
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 4 : 5
Drummer newspaper
1971-1973
Box 4 : 6
"H.E.L.P.line" typescripts
circa 1976
Box 4 : 7
Outreach: Journal of the Homophile Effort
for Legal Protection
1979
Box 4 : 9
Brochures
circa
1970-1978
Box 4 : 12
T-shirt decals
circa 1976
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