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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Gene R. Touchet papers
creator:
Touchet, Gene R.
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014.103
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1975-1987
Abstract: Correspondence and clippings related to letters to the editor, along with information on the Gay and Lesbian Police Advisory
Task Force of Los Angeles collected or written by Gene R. Touchet, 1975-1987. Touchet served as an ONE Incorporated board
member, 1976-1987, the American Civil Liberties Union Gay Rights Chapter as a Media Watch monitor, and on the Gay and Lesbian
Police Advisory Task Force of Los Angeles.
Gene R. Touchet was born in 1938. He served in the United States Army from 1958-1961. He received his Bachelor of Science
from Lamar University in 1963, his master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College in 1969, and his doctorate from
the University of Florida in 1974. He taught speech, dramatics and English in East Orange, New Jersey from 1963-1969. Touchet
went on to the University of Florida from 1969-1973 and then to Columbia State Community College, Columbia, Tennessee, 1973-1975.
He relocated to Southern California. Touchet served ONE Incorporated as a board member, 1976-1987, the American Civil Liberties
Union Gay Rights Chapter as a Media Watch monitor, and on the Gay and Lesbian Police Advisory Task Force of Los Angeles.
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
Date and method of acquisition unknown.
[Box #, item,] Gene R. Touchet Papers, Coll2014-103
, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Michael C. Oliveira, October 2014.
Correspondence and clippings related to letters to the editor, along with information on the Gay and Lesbian Police Advisory
Task Force of Los Angeles collected or written by Gene R. Touchet, 1975-1987. Touchet's letters to the editor were in response
to an Oliphant editorial cartoon, Ralph F. Pynchon's letter to the editor, and Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Manning's column
in the
Los Angeles Hearld Examiner.
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence
Gay activists -- California -- Los Angeles
Touchet, Gene R.