Sophia Corleone papers, 1973-1994

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Summary

Creators:
Corleone, Sophia
Abstract:
Sophia Corleone organized, along with co-coordinator Gail Suber, the Lesbian Writers Series of readings at A Different Light Bookstore in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. This collection contains materials relevant to the planning of the series as well as ephemera related to LGBT community organizations and events.
Extent:
0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Language:
and Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sophia Corleone papers (Collection 1988). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains materials relevant to the planning of the Women's Writers Series at A Different Light Bookstore in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California as well as publications and ephemera such as fliers and newsletters related to LGBT community organizations and events.

Biographical / historical:

Sophia Corleone was the co-coordinator of the Lesbian Writers Series at A Different Light bookstore throughout the 1990s. Corleone graduated from Smith College and wrote fiction, memoirs, and essays.

Acquisition information:
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.
Processing information:

Processed by Stacy Wood, 2013

Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Jessica Tai in 2017.

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.

Arrangement:

Materials in this collection have been arranged chronologically.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to 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.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sophia Corleone papers (Collection 1988). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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