Finding aid of the Fernando Aguayo-Garcia Papers
Aguayo-Garcia, Fernando
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
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The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. All rights reserved.
Finding aid of the Fernando Aguayo-Garcia Papers
Collection number: 1999-21
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
San Francisco, California
- Processed by:
- Josué Hurtado
- Date Completed:
- 2005
- Encoded by:
- Rebekah Kim
© 2006 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Fernando Aguayo-Garcia Papers
Dates: 1990-1991
Collection number: 1999-21
Creator:
Aguayo-Garcia, Fernando
Collection Size:
1.25 linear feet
1 carton
Repository:
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94105
Abstract: Small Collection of Queer and AIDS activist ephemera, part of the AIDS activist collective, Boy with Arms Akimbo.
Physical location: Stored at the Archives of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society in San Francisco, California
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright to unpublished manuscript materials has been transferred to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Fernando Aguayo-Garcia Papers, 1999-21, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Acquisition Information
Donated to the Library by Fernando Aguayo-Garcia on May 6 1999, with an accretion on March 22, 2000.
Biography / Administrative History
Fernando Aguayo-Garcia lived in San Francisco for over a decade during the 1990s. He moved to London in 2000. Aguayo-Garcia
was active in the activist organizations Queer Nation/San Francisco as well as Bad Cop/No Donut. He went on to found efficy
metals, an S and M and kink jewelry catalog where he sold his own designs. His company remains in business at .com
Scope and Content of Collection
This small collection consists of stickers, flyers, and AIDS or Queer awareness campaign posters that were placed around San
Francisco and other cities. These materials are significant in that they illustrate the conscious raising activities of AIDS
and Queer activists during the early 1990s.
The collection consists of one series: Ephemera.
Indexing Terms
AIDS
Queer Nation (Organization)
San Francisco (Calif.)
Related Material
Boy With Arms Akimbo
Collection Contents
Series 1.
Ephemera
1990-1991
Creator:
Fernando Aguayo-Garcia
Physical Description: 1 box
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series includes, safe sex stickers, flyers, and a poster critical of the administration of President George H. W. Bush
as well as a series of posters that were part of a safe sex campaign illustrating various safe sex activities (the "Safe/Unsafe"
campaign). Also in this collection are posters from the "Just Sex/Sex Is" campaign which "challenged viewers to deconstruct
their own sexual ideology." In the first folder in the series contains a document produced by the Queer activist collective
"Boy With Arms Akimbo/Girl With Arms Akimbo" about their activities.
box-folder 1/1
Boy With Arms Akimbo/Girl With Arms Akimbo,
1990
box-folder 1/3
Flyers and Stickers,
1990-1991
