Finding aid to the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists records, circa 1980-1992
Coll2013.005
Finding aid prepared by Loni Shibuyama
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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Title: Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists records
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013.005
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4.2 linear feet.
3 archive boxes + 1 archive flat box + 1 poster.
Date (inclusive): circa 1980-1992
Abstract: Meeting minutes, event records, promotional material, clippings, photographs, correspondence, membership records, newsletters
and other material, 1980-1992, from the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Entertainment Industry (AGLA), formed
to encourage the responsible portrayal of gays and lesbians in entertainment media. Materials in the collection document the
organization's most active period, particularly when it produced an annual awards show for gay and lesbian representation
in the entertainment industry.
creator:
Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists.
Administrative History
The Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Entertainment Industry (AGLA) was founded in 1982. Initially named the Alliance
for Gay Artists, AGLA began as an actors' support group, and as other artists joined, the group expanded its focus to greater
interaction with the entertainment industry at large. During the AGLA's most active period in the 1980s, the organization
presented its annual AGLA Media Awards to "responsible" representations of lesbian and gay characters and issues. The annual
award show honored or featured celebrities such as Ed Asner, Steven Bochco, Sammy Davis, Jr., Rita Moreno, Bernadette Peters,
Lynn Redgrave and others. AGLA's other activities included monitoring gay and lesbian portrayals in film, plays and television;
consulting on scripts in progress; supporting local stage productions; and holding regular meetings with speakers working
in the entertainment industry.
As the organization's statement of purpose reads: "Starting from the premise that the formation of a positive media image
depends upon gay artists having a positive image of themselves, [AGLA] provides a mutual support group in which individual
experiences can be shared and evaluated in an atmosphere of complete confidentiality. [AGLA] provides a media watch to criticize
productions which create derogatory gay images, perpetuate insidious stereotypes or use anti-gay language. On the other hand,
[AGLA] commends productions which help create a realistic and multi-dimensional gay image for the public. [AGLA] addresses
itself to instances of job discrimination within the industry which are brought to [AGLA's] attention, by means of affirmative
job action. [AGLA] encourages artists to create, develop and foster works that expand the public's knowledge of who gay people
really are, and which give a complete picture of the many types of gay people and gay lifestyles that comprise the gay community."
Source:
Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists Records, Coll2013-005, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Acquisition
The bulk of the materials in this collection were donated by Dale Reynolds, date unknown.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists Records, Coll2013-005, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Processing Information
Formerly boxes A034, A035, A036 and 103-020. Collection processed by Loni Shibuyama, February 2013.
Related Materials
ONE Archives' collection of AGLA videocassettes are stored on deposit at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. AGLA's videocassette
collection includes television shows, news coverage, and films that AGLA was monitoring; as well as recordings of its annual
media award shows. Call numbers and titles for the videocassettes are listed below. Additional information about these videocassettes
can be found in ONE's database for audiovisual materials.
AGLA 001, "AGA Media Awards Oct. 4, 1982" 1982 [video Betamax; video Umatic; video VHS]
AGLA 002, "AGA Awards Show 1983" 1983 [video Umatic; video VHS]
AGLA 003, "AGLA Awards Show Video Promo 1984" [video Umatic]
AGLA 004, "AGLA Media Awards Show 1984" 1984 [video VHS]
AGLA 005, "AGLA Awards Show Video" [video Umatic]
AGLA 006, "AGLA '84 Reel Change Back-Up" 1984 [video Umatic]
AGLA 007, "AGLA Media Awards 1985" 1985 [video Umatic; video VHS]
AGLA 008, "AGLA Awards Promotional Tape 1985" 1985 [video Umatic]
AGLA 009, "News Report on 1985 AGLA Media Awards" 1985 [video VHS]
AGLA 010, "AGLA Media Awards Video Clips 1987" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 011, "AGLA Media Awards Video Clips 1987 and 1988" 1987-1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 012, "AGLA Media Awards Show 1988" 1988 [video Umatic; video VHS]
AGLA 013, "AGLA Media Awards Presentation 1988" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 014, "Mathilde Krim Acceptance Speech 1988 AGLA Awards Show" 1988 [video Umatic]
AGLA 015, "AGLA Clips 1988" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 016, "Sally Jesse Raphael Acceptance Speech 1988 AGLA Awards Show" 1988 [video Umatic]
AGLA 017, "AIDS The Global Explosion" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 018, "AIDS Hits Home" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 019, "AIDS : Profile of an Epidemic; AIDS: A Public Inquiry" 1984 [video VHS]
AGLA 020, "The AIDS show; Hunter" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 021, "As The World Turns; Women of Brewster Place; Heartbeat" [video VHS]
AGLA 022, "Brothers" 1985 [video VHS]
AGLA 023, "Brothers" 1985 [video VHS]
AGLA 024, "Brothers" [video VHS]
AGLA 025, "Brothers" [video VHS]
AGLA 026, "Burn This" [video Umatic]
AGLA 027, "Sonya in LA" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 028, "CNN - Couples; 4866 Hotel Contest of Wills; Heartbeat Medical Practice" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 029, "Cagney & Lacey; Superior Court; Hellfire" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 030, "Cheers; Remember My Name (AIDS Quilt)" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 031, "Consenting Adults" [video VHS]
AGLA 032, "Dallas" 1984 [video Umatic]
AGLA 033, "Desert Hearts" [video VHS]
AGLA 034, "Designing Women" 1988 [video Umatic]
AGLA 035, "Donahue" 1983 [video VHS]
AGLA 036, "Donahue; Kate & Allie; Divorce Court" [video VHS]
AGLA 037, "AGLA Awards Phil Donahue Acceptance" 1987 [video Umatic]
AGLA 038, "A Death in the Family; Superior Court; Oprah; Miami Vice" 1987-1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 039, "Donahue; Sally Jessy Raphael; Sally Jessy Raphael" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 040, "Donahue" [video Umatic]
AGLA 041, "Dress Gray" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 042, "Dynasty" [video VHS]
AGLA 043, "Dynasty" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 044, "An Early Frost" 1985 [video VHS]
AGLA 045, "Emmett: A One Mormon Show" [video Betamax]
AGLA 046, "AGA Awards - Falcon Crest" 1983 [video Umatic]
AGLA 047, "Fifth of July" 1983 [video VHS]
AGLA 048, "Fighting For Our Lives; We Are Family; Innovation" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 049, "1st & 10; Cheers" 1984 [video VHS]
AGLA 050, "Heartbeat; St. Elsewhere" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 051, "Heartbeat" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 052, "Hooperman; Hooperman; St. Elsewhere" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 053, "1st & 10" 1984 [video VHS]
AGLA 054, "The Golden Girls" 1987
AGLA 055, "Hail to the Chief" 1985 [video VHS]
AGLA 056, "Hooperman" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 057, "Hotel" 1984 [video VHS]
AGLA 058, "Hotel" [video VHS]
AGLA 059, "Hotel; LA Law; Cagney & Lacey" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 060, "Hotel; LA Law" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 061, " Intimate Contact; Designing Women" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 062, " Intimate Contact; CBS News" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 063, "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" [video VHS]
AGLA 064, "LA Law; What if I'm Gay" [video VHS]
AGLA 065, "LA Law" [video VHS]
AGLA 066, "Liberace" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 067, "Liberace: Behind the Music" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 068, "Liberace" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 069, "Lifestyle Update; Nova: Can AIDS Be Stopped; Gay Talk: The Naked Civil Servant" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 070, "The March News Clips" [video VHS]
AGLA 071, "Nine to Five; Molly Dodd; Heartbeat" [video VHS]
AGLA 072, "New York" 1984 [video Betamax]
AGLA 073, "The Normal Heart" [video Umatic]
AGLA 074, "Obsessions" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 075, "The Normal Heart Promo" 1985 [video Betamax]
AGLA 076, "The Normal Heart - Reviews" [video Betamax]
AGLA 077, "9 to 5" 1988 [video Umatic]
AGLA 078, "Oprah" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 079, "Oprah; Donahue" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 080, "Parting Glances" [video VHS]
AGLA 081, "Sally Jessy Rapheal; AIDS Quarterly" 1989 [video VHS]
AGLA 082, "Sara" 1985 [video VHS]
AGLA 083, "Secret Passions" 1989 [video VHS]
AGLA 084, "Sonya in LA" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 085, "St. Elsewwhere" 1985 [video VHS]
AGLA 086, "CBS This Morning" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 087, "Tidy Endings; Geraldo" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 088, "Tony Brown's Journal; Jump Street; Mr. Belvedere" 1988 [video VHS]
AGLA 089, "Too Little Too Late; At Issue; Mid Morning L.A." [video VHS]
AGLA 090, "Trapper John M.D.; MASH" [video VHS]
AGLA 091, "The Truth about Alex; Sally Jessy Raphael" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 092, "20/20" [video VHS]
AGLA 093, "Tracey Ullman; Bronx Zoo; Nightline" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 094, "Waiting for the Moon; Not All Parents are Straight; Silent Pioneers" 1987 [video VHS]
AGLA 095, "When the Bough Breaks" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 096, "West 57th; L.A. Law; Golden Girls; Golden Girls; Geraldo" 1989 [video VHS]
AGLA 097, "Women of Brewster Place" 1989 [video VHS]
AGLA 098, "AGA media awards presentation; L.A. stage co." 1982 [video Betamax]
AGLA 099, "My two loves" 1986 [video VHS]
AGLA 100, "The human rights campaign fund: a powerful voice" 1987 [video VHS]
Related Materials
Dale Reynolds Papers, Acc2011-015, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Scope and Content
The collection comprises meeting minutes, event records, promotional material, clippings, photographs, correspondence, membership
records, newsletters and other material, 1980-1992, from the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Entertainment Industry
(AGLA), formed to encourage the responsible portrayal of gays and lesbians in entertainment media. Materials in the collection
document the organization's founding; media monitoring activities; outreach activities in the entertainment industry at large;
membership participation; and the production of its annual media awards show for gay and lesbian representation in the entertainment
industry.
Arrangement
Articles of Incorporation and Board of Directors folders are at the beginning. The remaining folders are arranged alphabetically.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Reynolds, Dale
Gay actors
Gay men on television
Gays in motion pictures
Lesbian actresses
Lesbianism on television
Lesbians in motion pictures
Mass media and gays--United States
Minorities in mass media
Sexual minorities on television
Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists records
Box 1, Folder 1
Articles of incorporation, bylaws and statements of purpose
circa 1982-1987
Box 1, Folder 2-11
Board of directors materials
1980-1991
Physical Description:
[10 folders]
Annual AGLA Awards
circa 1982-1988
Box 1, Folder 12-14
General
circa 1982-1988
Physical Description:
[3 folders]
Map-case 8.5
Poster, 7th Annual AGLA Media Awards
1988
Box 1, Folder 18-20
Show running order and scripts
1982-1987
Physical Description:
[3 folders]
Box 2, Folder 1-2
Ticket sales and financials, celebrities
1988
Physical Description:
[2 folders]
Box 4, Folder 1
City of Los Angeles Commendation
1984
Physical Description:
[oversize]
Box 2, Folder 3-8
Clippings
circa 1980-1992
Physical Description:
[6 folders]
Box 2, Folder 10
Correspondence, pitch letters
1981-1987
Box 2, Folder 11
Events records
circa 1985-1990
Box 2, Folder 12-16
Financial and membership records
circa 1980-1991
Physical Description:
[5 folders]
Box 3, Folder 1-4
Financial and membership records
circa 1980-1991
Physical Description:
[4 folders]
Box 3, Folder 5
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, "Challenge Bigotry" proposal
1986
Box 3, Folder 6
Letterhead
circa 1980-1990
Box 3, Folder 7-8
Mailing lists
1983-1986
Physical Description:
[2 folders]
Box 3, Folder 9-10
Newsletter
1981-1990
Physical Description:
[2 folders]
Box 3, Folder 11
Notes from Hollywood
1990
Box 3, Folder 12
Organizational Development Suggestions, draft
1990
Box 3, Folder 13
Palm Springs, notes on
1990
Box 3, Folder 14
Photographs
circa 1980-1990
Box 3, Folder 15
Promotional brochures and drafts
circa 1982-1992
Box 3, Folder 16
Promotional flyers, forms and press releases
circa 1980-1990
Box 3, Folder 17
Promotional mailers
1980-1990
Box 4, Folder 2-3
Promotional material paste-ups
circa 1982-1990
Physical Description:
[2 oversize folders]
Box 3, Folder 18
Question Prep Sheet
circa 1980-1991
Box 3, Item 20
Seal embosser: "Alliance for Gay & Lesbian Artists in the [Entertainment Industry] Inc."
1982
Box 3, Folder 19
Tax return information
1986-1987
