UCLA Gay Awareness Week Records, 1974-1976

Collection context

Summary

Title:
UCLA Gay Awareness Week records
Dates:
1974-1976
Creators:
Gay Students Union (University of California, Los Angeles).
Abstract:
Proposal, budget, planning, promotion, and evaluation records of the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Gay Students Union for the first three UCLA Gay Awareness Week events, 1974-1976. The Gay Students Union organized five days of speeches and panels for Gay Awareness Week to focus on "the problems of gay people in today's society."
Extent:
0.2 linear feet. 1 archive carton
Language:
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder #, or item name] UCLA Gay Awareness Week Records, Coll2013-054, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Background

Scope and content:

Proposal, budget, planning, promotion, and evaluation records of the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Gay Students Union for the first three UCLA Gay Awareness Week events, 1974-1976.

Biographical / historical:

Each year, the UCLA Gay Students Union organized five days of speeches and panels for Gay Awareness Week to focus on "the problems of gay people in today's society" ( UCLA Daily Bruin cover story, February 24, 1976). Speakers and panelists from 1974-1976 include Vito Russo, Patricia Nell Warren, Christopher Isherwood, Laud Humphreys, John Howard, C.A. Trip, Gerald Davison, Elaine Noble, Louis West, Jeff Richards, Al Gordon, Tom Coleman, Jay Fisher, Walter Blumoff, Terry O'Brien, Newt Deiter, Larry Long, Betty Berzon, Jeanne Barney, Mark Jone, Jim Kepner, Enric Morello, Eric Stiles, Goldie Glitters, Glenn Erickson, Ben Teller, Luke Johnson, David Goodstein, Christopher Larkin, Paul Mariah, Steven Grossman, Troy Perry, Bud Dunz, Bob Sirico, Dave Johnson, Ed Cult, Dorr Legg, Morris Kight, Don Kilhefner, David Glasscock, Mike Manning, Charles Shively, Rudy Eaton, Gary Steele, Fred Halstead, and Dave Johnson among others.

Acquisition information:
Date and method of acquisition unknown.
Processing information:

Collection processed by Kyle Morgan, 2013.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Kyle Morgan
Sponsor:
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Date Prepared:
(c) 2013
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-06-03T15:44-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder #, or item name] UCLA Gay Awareness Week Records, Coll2013-054, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Location of this collection:
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007, US
Contact:
(213) 821-2771