Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Carolyn Weathers papers
- Dates:
- 1971-2010
- Creators:
- Weathers, Carolyn
- Abstract:
- Carolyn Weathers is a lesbian activist and publisher. This collection contain flyers, brochures, publications, and other materials related to the operation of Clothespin Fever Press, a lesbian press founded by Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn in the 1980s.
- Extent:
- 0.8 linear feet (2 boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Carolyn Weathers Papers (Collection 2223). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contain flyers, brochures, publications, and other materials related to the operation of Clothespin Fever Press, a lesbian press founded by Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn in the 1980s.
- Biographical / historical:
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Born in 1941, Carolyn Weathers is the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher. She moved to Los Angeles after being expelled from a Texas University when she came out as a lesbian. She was an enthusiastic participant in the pre-Stonewall bar scene in San Antonio, Texas and in the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Women's Liberation Front at the Women's Center of Los Angeles.
She was a co-publisher with artist Jenny Wrenn, of Clothespin Fever Press, a now defunct lesbian book publishing company that operated from 1986-1994. Her stories and remembrances are included in Gay LA: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons as well as in Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975 edited by Barbara Love. She also wrote a memoir, titled Her Leaving Texas (1986). After retiring from her job as a public librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library, she began writing the column "True Life Lesbian Adventures" for the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives. Weathers was awarded with an LGBT Heritage Award by the City of Los Angeles In June 2015.
- Acquisition information:
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Provenance unknown.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) , and the UCLA Library .
- Processing information:
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Processed by Stacy Wood, March 2014. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2017.
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- Arrangement:
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Materials arranged by type.
- Physical / technical requirements:
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CONTAINS DIGITAL AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains processed digital and audiovisual materials. All requests to access digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-11-19 12:38:31 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Carolyn Weathers Papers (Collection 2223). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988