Guide to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Records - San Francisco Bay Area, 1989-1993
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Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California
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San Francisco, California 94103
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The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Records - San Francisco Bay Area, 1989-1993
Accession number: 1993-20
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
San Francisco, California
Contact Information:
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
- 989 Market Street, Lower Level
- San Francisco, California 94103
- Phone: (415) 777-5455
- Email: info@glbthistory.org
- URL: http://www.glbthistory.org
- Processed by:
- Ernest Seaver
- Date Completed:
- April 1996
- Encoded by:
- Gabriela A. Montoya
© 1998 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. All rights
reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Records - San Francisco Bay Area,
Date (inclusive): 1989-1993
Accession number: 1993-20
Creator:
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (San Francisco, Calif.)
Extent: 1.65 linear feet
Repository: The
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
San Francisco, California.
Shelf location: Housed at the GLBT Historical Society
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Acquisition
The GLAAD-SFBA Records (#1993-20) were received from Jessea Greenman in 1993.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright to unpublished manuscript materials has been transferred to the Gay and Lesbian
Historical Society of Northern California.
Audio-Visual Materials
The collection contains audio cassette tapes and VHS tapes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Records -San
Francisco Bay Area, 1993-20, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Historical Note
In 1987 The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation/San Francisco Bay Area
(GLAAD/SFBA) was formed as a chapter of the GLAAD New York national office. However, in
March 1990 GLAAD/SFBA elected its own Board of Directors, incorporated and received
non-profit status as an independent entity.
Like its parent organization (GLAAD/USA), the San Francisco chapter was created to
identify and respond to public expressions, especially in the print and electronic media,
which stemmed from homophobia, bigotry, and misinformation about lesbians, gays and
bisexuals. The response took the forms of letter writing and telephone campaigns,
meetings with media representatives, and even public demonstrations when such actions
were required.
GLAAD/SFBA's major goal was, and continues to be, the improvement of public attitudes
about homosexuality in an effort to end violence and discrimination against lesbians and
gays, thus diminishing their social isolation nationwide. To this end, GLAAD/SFBA has had
many noteworthy accomplishments over the years.
Just to mention a few, in June 1990 GLAAD/SFBA began Project 21. This project coordinated
a successful state-wide effort to pressure the California State Board of Education to
include fair and accurate information about lesbians, gays and bisexuals in the State
health, physical education and social history frameworks. In 1992 a billboard advertising
campaign was launched, featuring an interracial lesbian couple. In the same year
GLAAD/SFBA, along with its affiliate chapters, made a concerted effort to educate
art/entertainment editors and reviewers throughout the United States, ensuring
unprecedented media focus on Hollywood homophobia for the release of the film,
Basic Instincts. The following year in 1993, GLAAD/SFBA organized a
community forum to present the homophobic propaganda film,
The Gay Agenda,and to brainstorm ways of fighting this type of Christian fundamentalist bigotry.
GLAAD/SFBA was formed as a membership organization with programs organized and run by
volunteers. It has been governed by an eight member board (with gender parity) and
several standing committees. The board members are nominated and elected by written
ballot and are voted on by the general membership. All operations are funded by private
donations.
Scope and Content
The GLAAD/SFBA records (1.65 linear feet) document the organization's range of activities
from late 1989 to mid-1993. Any records prior to that time, and after its founding in
1987, have not been made available to The Gay and Lesbian Historical Society as of this
date. The present records are divided into six series: administrative, controversies,
projects and promotions, printed materials, and audio-visual.
Starting with the articles of incorporation and bylaws, the
Title: administrative
series
documents the formation of policies and daily operations of
GLAAD/SFBA. This is further reflected in the records of the Board of Directors. The
records for each Board meeting provide the agendas, minutes and related reports from
standing committees and other sources. However, please note that there are gaps in the
Board minutes, and many times their discussions were sparsely notated.
The San Francisco chapter expanded its operations geographically into several outlying
areas. The largest was the South Bay Division. The minutes and correspondence for that
Division can be located in two separate files in the
Title: administrative series.
Also in this series, the researcher should note the "Narrative Annual
Reports, 1991-1992" file which provide a good overview of the chapter's accomplishments
during that period.
The
Title: controversies series
deals primarily with the print and
electronic media in regard to negative portrayals and inaccurate statements about
lesbians, gays and bisexuals. In contrast, the
Title: projects and promotions series
documents GLAAD/SFBA's endeavors to improve images and foster positive
information about lesbians, gays and bisexuals (see the Historical Note for an overview
of these projects). The remaining series constitute supplemental materials to the
collection.
The folder listing contains information on the title, producer, interviewer, interviewee,
and date of audio-visual materials. These materials mainly discuss the portrayal of gays
and lesbians in the media.
Materials Removed from the Collection
The collection originally had a run of the GLAAD/SFBA newsletter,
Update,from July 1990 to December 1992. These issues were used to fill out the existing
GLHS periodical run of this publication.
The Photographs have been removed to the Photo room.
Related Collections
Title: Randy Alfred Papers and Tapes
Date: 91-24
Box Box 1
Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, 1990-1991
Board of Directors Minutes, 1989-1990
Community Relations, 1991-1992
Correspondence, 1990-1993
GLAAD/Santa Cruz, 1990-1991
GLAAD/South Bay Division Minutes, 1991-1993
GLAAD/South Bay Division Correspondence and Related Materials, 1990-1993
Interim Organizational Director - Correspondence and Related Materials, 1993
Media Committee Minutes, 1989-1992
Media Committee Letter Writing Charter and Directives, 1991-1993
Miscellaneous Committee Reports, 1990-1991
Membership Meetings, 1989-1990
Narrative Annual Reports, 1991-1992
Controversies (External) Files
Box Box 1
Basic Instincts, 1991-1992 (3 folders)
Does Your Mother Know/Racism, 1990
KITS-FM (Perry Stone), 1989
National Women's History Project, 1990-1991
Southern Poverty Law Center, 1993
Projects and Promotions Files
Billboard PSA Project, 1992-1993
Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference, 1992
Family 2000 Conference, 1992
Festival at the Lake, 1991
Forum Series/Gay vs. Queer, 1993
Lesbian Invisibility Panel, 1990
Project 21, 1990-1993 (5 folders)
Public Service Announcements, 1989-1990
To Support and Defend,
1993
GLAAD National Office Files
Box Box 1
Affiliates Correspondence and Related Materials, 1991-1993
Miscellaneous Materials, 1992-1993
Box Box 1
"Cultural Advocacy: A Non-Legal Approach to Fighting Defamation of Lesbians and Gays", Law and Sexuality, 1992
Press Releases, 1989-1993
Audio-Visual and Photo Files
Box Box 2, cassette Cassette no. 1
Defamation
Narrator:
Harvey Fierstein
Producer:
Strub/Dawson, Inc.for GLAAD, New York, NY, nd
cassette Cassette no. 2
Ministering to the Homosexual
Narrator:
Dr. Don Tweedie
Producer:
Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO, nd
cassette Cassette no. 3
Side: A
News Talk Show
Interviewer:
Bernie Rogers
Guest:
Zane Blaney(GLAAD/SFBA)
Radio:
KGO, San Francisco, CA, March 29, 1990
Side: B
Forum
Interviewer:
Maureen Paravente (?)
Guests:
Jessea Greenmanand Zane Blaney(GLAAD/SFBA)
Radio:
KNEW-91 AM, San Francisco, CA, April 1, 1990
cassette Cassette no. 4
Side: A
Hibernia Beach
Interviewer:
Ken McPherson
Guest:
Danny Williams
Radio:
KITS -FM, San Francisco, CA, April 1990
Side: B
Rubyfruit Terrace
Interviewer:
Laurie McBride
Guest:
Pam Beach
Radio:
KITS -FM, San Francisco, CA, April 1990
cassette Cassette no. 5
Side: A
Interview
Interviewer:
?
Guests:
Bryon Potts and Jessea Greenman (GLAAD/SFBA)
Radio:
KNBR, San Francisco, CA, June 17, 1990
Side: B
Forum
Interviewer:
Kevin Pursglove
Guests:
Roberta Achtenberg,
Jim Robinson
Luanne McGrieff (?)
Radio:
KQED -FM, San Francisco, CA, May 5, 1990
cassette Cassette no. 6
Side: A
Forum
Interviewer:
?
Guests:
Neil Grungras (GLAAD/SFBA), Rob Birle (BANGLE)
and Lou Sheldon
Radio:
KQED -FM, San Francisco, CA, July 19, 1990
Side: B
Rubyfruit Terrace
Interviewer:
?
Guests:
?
Radio:
KITS -FM, San Francisco, CA, nd
cassette Cassette no. 7
GLAAD Invisibility in the Media Panel
Radio:
KPFA, Berkeley, CA, October 21, 1990
cassette Cassette no. 8
Forum
Interviewer:
?
Guests:
Carol Migden, Lenore (?), Brandy Moore and Chris Bowman
Radio:
KQED -FM, San Francisco, CA, December 31, 1990
cassette Cassette no. 9
Forum
Interviewer:
?
Guest:
Hank Wilson
Radio:
KQED -FM, San Francisco, CA, July 28, 19??
Box Box 2, vhs_tape VHS Tape no. 1
Celluloid Hate: A Thumbnail History of Homophobia in Hollywood
Producer:
Traditional Videos, Long Beach, CA, 1992
The Gay and Lesbian News Magazine/1992 Oscar Protests
Producer:
Bob LaFont for Traditional Videos, Long Beach, CA, 1992
vhs_tape VHS Tape no. 2
The Gay Agenda
Producer:
The Report [The Multimedia Resource Center of Springs of Life Church], Lancaster, CA,
1992
vhs_tape VHS Tape no. 2
Hate, Lies and Videotape
Producer:
The Gay and Lesbian Emergency Media Campaign, New York, NY, 1993
vhs_tape VHS Tape no. 3
Gay March '93: What You Didn't See on Network TV
Producer:
The Christian Action Network, Forest, VA, 19??
vhs_tape VHS Tape no. 4
GLAAD Memorial Day Event
Producer:
KPIX -KCO TV Press Coverage, San Francisco, CA, May 29, 1993
Gays in the Military
Producer:
Channel 51 CATV Press Coverage, San Francisco, Ca, May 29, 1993
vhs_tape VHS Tape no. 5
Requiem for Unknown Lesbian - Gay - Bisexual Soldiers. GLAAD/SFBA Ceremony, May 29, 1993
Camera work:
Diane Harden
