San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project collection
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GLBT Historical Society
2023
989 Market Street, Lower Level
San Francisco, California 94103
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Title: San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project collection
Dates: 2017-2018
Collection Number: GLBT-ACTUPOH
Creator/Collector:
GLBT Historical Society
Extent: 102 audiovisual recordings of 23 interviewees
Online items available
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Audiovisual recordings of oral history interviews with 23 San Francisco Bay Area activists discussing the history of ACT UP/San
Francisco and other AIDS direct-action groups in the city. Interviews were conducted by the GLBT Historical Society in 2017-2018.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material is owned by 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.
[Identification of item]. San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project collection. Collection Number: GLBT-ACTUPOH. GLBT Historical
Society
The project was initiated by Joey Plaster and later managed by Eric Sneathen. Interviews were conducted between 2017 and 2018
and the collection was finalized in 2020.
Scope and Content of Collection
The San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project of the GLBT Historical Society is a wide-scale oral history project to chronicle,
preserve and share the history of ACT UP/San Francisco and other AIDS direct-action groups in the city. ACT UP/San Francisco
was a highly visible and influential group of militant AIDS activists associated with a national network of independent organizations
that shared the name AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. The collection consists of 102 audiovisual recordings of interviews
with 23 Bay Area activists. ACT UP/San Francisco emerged from earlier AIDS direct-action efforts in the city starting in 1984;
it remained active into the mid-1990s. The project documents this wider context by also gathering oral histories on AIDS direct
action by other local groups, including Enola Gay, the ARC/AIDS Vigil, AIDS Action Pledge, ACT UP/Golden Gate and Prevention
Point. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001813; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008519.
Gay men
Lesbians
AIDS (disease)
Health
Oral history
ACT UP (Organization)