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Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light videotapes
1999-52
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Title: Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light videotapes
Dates: 1973-1978
Collection Number: 1999-52
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Extent: 4 linear feet
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GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection contains 109 hours, or almost 100 ½-inch EIAJ-1 open reel tapes, recorded by the early gay video production
group Queer Blue Light. Subjects range from politics to culture.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light videotapes. Collection Number: 1999-52. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Daniel A. Smith.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains 109 hours, or almost 100 ½-inch EIAJ-1 open reel tapes, recorded by the early gay video production
group Queer Blue Light. Subjects range from politics to culture and include: a 1973 tape on the Bakersfield Gay Student Union;
a 1975 demonstration of gay teachers in San Francisco; the 1976 Castro Street Fair; and a provocative 31 minute documentary
called Sign 504 Now about a four week long sit-in of disability rights protesters at the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare. All reels of historical interest have been digitized and available for viewing at the GLBT Historical Society
archives.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000297; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374
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