Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Eibhlyn, Arawn
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 9 linear feet (4 cartons and 1 large box)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd papers. GLBT Historical Society
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains the professional, personal, and organizational papers and documents, ephemera of Tryfan Llwyd.
- Biographical / historical:
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Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd (they/them) was born in Paris, Kentucky on February 21, 1951 and died in Louisville, Kentucky on March 3rd, 2021. Their activist career spanned from the early 1970’s to the 2020 George Floyd protests. They were a pioneer in leftist coalition politics and intersectionality, and often emphasized the necessity of the Gay Liberation Movement to form coalitions with other political movements such as anti-racism, anti-imperialism, feminism, prison abolition and socialism. A longtime survivor of AIDS, they were a founding member of the AIDS Action Pledge in 1986, which developed into ACT UP. Some of the many notable protests and demonstrations they co-organized included the 1987 March on Washington, the 1987 Burroughs-Wellcome protest, the Midnight Caller protests in 1988, the FDA Occupation in 1988, and the Golden Gate Bridge Blockade in 1989. When not doing grassroots organization, they worked as a research assistant at UCSF for AIDS Prevention studies. During the last years of their life they came out as a “non-binary and genderqueer member of the transgender community” and adopted the name “Tryfan”.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- AIDS (disease)
Journalism
Nonbinary people
Transgender people
Activism
LGBTQ
Incarcerated people
Gay men
Gender nonconformity
ACT UP San Francisco (Organization)
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
AIDS (Disease) --Political aspects.
Prisoners --Civil rights --California. - Places:
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been transferred to GLBT Historical Society.
- Preferred citation:
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Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd papers. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455