Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Matthews, Tede
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 13 linear feet (9 cartons, 1 oversized box)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Tede Matthews papers. GLBT Historical Society
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection includes material collected and created by Tede Matthews (July 29, 1951-July 17, 1993). Matthews was a longtime member of the Modern Times Bookstore collective, a performer, poet, writer, and an activist for LGBTQ rights in the United States and Latin America. Matthews started Modern Times’ monthly open reading for LGBTQ writers and created the store’s Spanish language section. He also hosted Mainstream Exiles, a salon for poets and musicians at the Valencia Rose, and performed with the radical theater group Angels of Light. Matthews helped found Bay Area Gay Liberation in the 1970s, Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention in the 1980s, worked with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s Latin American programs in the 1990s, and became an AIDS activist. He died of AIDS in July 1993. The collection includes personal writings and poetry, works of art, publications, photographs, audiovisual recordings, personal journals, and other material. The collection is unprocessed.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Maureen O’Neil and the Estate of Charles Barragan, June 2021.
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
- Preferred citation:
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Tede Matthews papers. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455