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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Marilyn Murphy papers
Creator:
Murphy, Marilyn
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2226
Physical Description:
1.4 Linear Feet
(1 carton, 1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1971-2005
Abstract: Marilyn Murphy was a lesbian activist and author. She had a long-running column, "Lesbian Logic," in
Lesbian News in the 1980s and a selection of her columns appeared in the 1991 book,
Are You Girls Traveling Alone? She was an active member of the organization Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC) and the Califia Community along with
Diane F. Germain. The collection consists of several of Murphy's published and unpublished works, including a copy of her
book, as well as correspondence, ephemera, and audiovisual materials.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains processed audiovisual materials. All requests to access digital materials
must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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.
[Identification of item], Marilyn Murphy Papers (Collection 2226). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
June Mazer Lesbian Archives, transfer, 2012. Original 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, 2014. Additional processing by Sabrina Ponce, 2018.
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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.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9976056713606533
Marilyn Murphy was a lesbian activist and author. She had a long-running column, "Lesbian Logic," in
Lesbian News in the 1980s and a selection of her columns appeared in the 1991 book,
Are You Girls Traveling Alone? She was an active member of the organization Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC) and the Califia Community along with
Diane F. Germain. Murphy died in 2004 and is survived by her partner, Irene Weiss, co-founder of the Califia Community.
The collection consists of several of Murphy's published and unpublished works, including a copy of her book
Are You Girls Traveling Alone?, as well as correspondence, ephemera, and audiovisual materials.
Materials arranged by type.
- Diane Germain Papers (Collection 1961) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Old Lesbians Organizing for Change Records (Collection 2203) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lesbian activists -- United States -- Archives.
Lesbian authors -- United States -- Archives.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA
Murphy, Marilyn -- Archives