Queer Resource Center resource files, ca. 1971-1996

Summary

Creators:

Queer Resource Center (University of California, Berkeley)

Abstract:

Primarily serial files collected by the Center, plus some information files on conferences, education, and health.

Extent:

25 boxes (30 linear ft.)

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the large serials files accumulated by the Center as well as a much smaller series of general information files.

Biographical / historical:

The Queer Resource Center was established in 1992, but the history of gay related organizations on the Berkeley campus goes back to 1969 with the establishment of Students for Gay Power. It provided support, referral and information services for the gay community on campus, and in the course of its activities it established a library and maintained information files of interest to the gay community.

Acquisition information:

Transferred from the Queer Resource Center.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, University Archives

University of California, Berkeley, University Archives, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

(510) 642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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