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Finding Aid for the Lesbian Visibility Week records,
1990-1992
LSC.1948
LSC.1948
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Title: Lesbian Visibility Week Records
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1948
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Date (inclusive): 1990-1992
Abstract: Lesbian Visibility Week is a week-long event devoted to raising awareness of lesbian issues and identities, and raising and
celebrating the profile of the lesbian community. It is a combination of cultural programming, workshops addressing current
and impending needs, awards ceremonies, and social events. It is co-sponsored by the West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility Committee
and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and is funded in part by the city of West Hollywood. This collection contains materials
pertaining to the planning and execution of Lesbian Visibility Week in West Hollywood, California for the years 1990 through
1992.
Physical location: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility Committee
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Conditions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary 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.
[Identification of item], Lesbian Visibility Week Records (Collection 1948). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6962880
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
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 .
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2016.
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is 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 . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
Lesbian Visibility Week is a week-long event devoted to raising awareness around lesbian issues and identities, raising the
profile of the lesbian community and celebrating. It is a combination of cultural programming, workshops addressing current
and impending needs, awards ceremonies and social events. It is cosponsored by the Lesbian Visibility Committee and the Los
Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and is funded in part by the city of West Hollywood. The West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility
Committee (WeHo LVC) was established in 1989 to bring awareness to lesbians living and loving in West Hollywood, California,
one of the largest lesbian communities in America. WeHo LVC endeavors to bring justice where injustices are being carried
out in the lesbian community and to act as a resource for women in need.
This collection includes correspondence, notes, promotional materials, display boards, and photographs all centered on the
planning and execution of Lesbian Visibility Week in West Hollywood, California. The collection is dominated by materials
from 1990 although Lesbian Visibility Week continued to have a strong presence throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
Materials are arranged chronologically with undated materials at the end.
Related material can be found in both the VIVA 1985-1995 Collection in the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA as well
as in the Lesbian Legacy Collection Subject Files ca. 1920-2008 at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Lesbians--California--Los Angeles--Congresses.