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Title: Murray Lee Balan papers
Dates: c 1969-2009
Collection Number: 2022-77
Creator/Collector:
Murray Lee Balan
Extent: 1.5 linear feet (1 oversize box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Murray Lee Balan was the co-founder of the Gay Emmaus House of San Francisco in 1969, which had a goal of providing food,
shelter, community, social services, and counseling to the LGBTQ community. He also worked to form a gay commune in the Haight
Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco and served as the administrative director of the LGBT Center in Long Beach from 1987-1989.
This collection includes flyers, photographs, newsletters, and ephemera documenting this work, as well as three audio cassettes
of an interview with Morris Knight, and a book, written by Balan titled, Alien Journal.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Murray Lee Balan papers. Collection Number: 2022-77. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Murray Lee Balan, 2022.
Scope and Content of Collection
Murray Lee Balan was the co-founder of the Gay Emmaus House of San Francisco in 1969, which had a goal of providing food,
shelter, community, social services, and counseling to the LGBTQ community. He also worked to form a gay commune in the Haight
Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco and served as the administrative director of the LGBT Center in Long Beach from 1987-1989.
This collection includes flyers, photographs, newsletters, and ephemera documenting this work, as well as three audio cassettes
of an interview with Morris Knight, and a book, written by Balan titled, Alien Journal.
LGBTQ
gay men
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)