Finding Aid to the Liberation News Service Collection, 1969-1978 Coll2014.074
Loni Shibuyama
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Liberation News Service collection
creator:
Liberation News Service (New York, N.Y.)
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014.074
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
1 flat box.
Date (inclusive): 1969-1978
Abstract: News packets, correspondence, and administrative records, 1969-1978, from the Liberation News Service (LNS), a press agency
for alternative and radical media based in New York City, New York. Founded in 1967 as an anti-war news service, the LNS
expanded its coverage to the gay and lesbian liberation movement in 1970, with the help of gay journalist Allen Young.
Administrative History
The Liberation News Service was founded in 1967 by Marshall Bloom and Raymond Mungo. Two or three times a week, printed packets
were sent to hundreds of underground press subscribers, providing news and information on the radical, New Left, anti-war,
and counter-culture movements. LNS staff writers and editors also promoted activism in social change, including homosexual
rights, third world liberation movements, and feminism.
The LNS was most active in the late-1960s and early-1970s and continued to send material to subscribers till it ended operations
in 1981.
Source: Young, Allen. "Liberation News Service, A History." Encyclopedia of the American Left. Ed. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle,
and Dan Georgakas. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was separated from the ONE Subject Files Collection, Coll2012-001. Donor and date of acquisition unknown.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] Liberation News Service Collection, Coll2014-074, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Loni Shibuyama, October 2014.
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises news packets, correspondence, and administrative records, 1969-1978, from the Liberation News Service
(LNS), a press agency for alternative and radical media based in New York City, New York. The packets include news, analysis,
features, editorials, poems, photographs, and cartoons; and document New Left, radical, and anti-war movements, as well as
the gay and lesbian liberation movement. The bulk of the collection is news packets from the years 1970-1971, when the LNS
engaged in a concerted effort to expand its coverage of the gay and lesbian movement.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged chronologically.
Related Materials
Allen Young Papers, Coll2008-004, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History
Gay press -- United States
Journalism
Mass media and gays -- United States
Minorities in mass media
Liberation News Service (New York, N.Y.)
Young, Allen
Liberation News Service collection
Box 1, folder 1
Administrative records
circa 1969-1973
Box 1, folder 3
News packets #230-306
1970
Box 1, folder 4
News packets #307-340
1971
