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Title: Arion Stone papers
Dates: 1973-1996
Collection Number: 2003-02
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .8 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection contains selected personal papers from South Bay activist Arion Stone, who was previously known as Rhio Hiersch.
Topics include education, AIDS, and activism.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Mailing lists and other records holding the names, addresses, and/or phone numbers of individuals
will be restricted for 20 years.
[Identification of item]. Arion Stone papers. Collection Number: 2003-02. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Arion Stone on September 24, 2002 (via Gerard Koskovisch). Accretions (2/16/2017) from Daniel Bao.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains selected personal papers from South Bay activist Arion Stone, who was previously known as Rhio Hiersch.
These include materials related to the Stanford University Workshops on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI) and college classes
on homosexuality that Stone organized and presented as part of Stanford's student-led course program in the early 1980s. There
are also materials from the Stanford AIDS Education Project (AEP); documents from a civil rights lawsuit Stone and Atticus
Tysen filed against Boomers, a Redwood City bar; graphics and flyers produced by Stone; subject files; and a smallamount of
materials related to Diseased Pariah News (DPN). The collection includes two videotapes -- one has a CNN feature on DPN; the
other features a 1996 Bob Beck lecture on electomagnetic cure for AIDS and many other disorders.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008497
AIDS (disease)
Gay men
Journalism