Correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, city and state referendums and bills, surveys, clippings, notes, campaign donation records, and flyers documenting the gay rights activism of James Boone and Joseph Bocuzzo, 1977-1991. The collection primarily details the effort from 1985-1989 to implement and defend a City of Irvine human rights ordinance which prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation.

James (Jim) Boone was a gay rights activist based out of Irvine, California. From 1986-1988, he was a member of Irvine's Committee on Human Rights and of Irvine's Committee to Draft a Human Rights Ordinance, which provided discrimination protection for gay and lesbian people. He was on the advisory board of Irvine Citizens United which battled a repeal effort of Irvine's human rights ordinance in the November 1989 election. In the late 1970s, he was a member of the Coalition for Human Rights in Orange County, and in 1980, was a co-chair of the Citizens Committee for Human Rights in Orange County. He was involved in numerous gay rights causes, including No on 6 (Briggs Initiative, 1978), No on 64 (LaRouche Initiative, 1986), and California Assembly Bill No.1 (to include sexual orientation in anti-discrimination legislation, 1984). He was involved in Dignity and was a board member in 1978. Joseph Bocuzzo was a member of the Citizens Committee for Human Rights in Orange County in 1980 and became treasurer of Irvine Citizens United in 1989. James Boone and Joseph Bocuzzo shared a house in Irvine.

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