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Table of contents

Series 1: Administrative Materials 1998-2012

Physical Description: 17 folders (Box 1, folders 1-13; Box 4, folders 2-3; Map-case, drawer 42, folders 1-2)

Arrangement

Arranged as received.

Scope and Contents

Comprises membership brochures and forms; promotional materials; agendas; meeting and retreat notes; reports; grant proposals; fundraiser and other event announcement letters, flyers, and programs; original artwork and graphics for promotional materials; national PAW newsletters, some pre-dating formation of SFPAW; digitized support materials on CD, DVD, and one flash drive containing documents, photographs, calendars, and events; press featuring SFPAW; and song and chant lyrics. Miscellaneous folder contains two 2011 SFPAW/HAVOQ calendars.

box 1, folder 1

Membership materials 2001-2012

box 1, folder 2

Meeting materials 2006-2011

Scope and Contents

Consists of documents created for or used in support of meetings, including agendas, reports, meeting guidelines, membership forms and member's guides.. Also contains retreat notes (see Retreats and Workshops Notes [Flate-file, folders 1-2] for extensive notes written on oversize flipchart pages).

map-case Drawer 42, folders 1-2

Retreat and workshop notes circa 2007-2012

Scope and Contents

Consists of two oversize folders containing notes from retreats and workshops that were written on flip chart paper. Folder 1 contains material on CitiStop, May Day (2012), Tranformative Justice, and Undoing Borders. This folder also contains notes from general retreats and unidentified retreats or workshops. Folder 2 contains material from Workers' Rights Workshop for Union Leaders, Rights in the Workplace: Transgender Workers in San Francisco and California (including notes in Spanish), and Trans Unemployment Brainstorm.

box 1, folder 3

Grants 2006-2011

Scope and Contents

Consists of grant proposals, applications, funding updates, progress reports, announcement of SFPAW receiving a RESIST Hell Yes! grant, and an auditor's report from the 2005-2006 national Pride At Work organization.

box 1, folder 4

Fundraisers and benefits circa 2007-2012

Scope and Contents

Consists of fundraiser invites, programs, flyers, and proposals for donations. Includes fundraiser materials for Queer Youth Organizing Project (QYOP).

box 1, folder 5

Events undated

box 1, folder 6

National PAW newsletters 1998-2004

box 1, folder 7

Certificates 2008-2011

box 4, folders 2-3

Press 2008-2010

box 1, folder 8

Graphics undated

box 1, folder 9

Support materials undated

Digitized support materials

box 1, folder 10

Unidentified documents and photographs [flash drive] undated

box 1, folder 11

Calendar files [CD] 2010 November

Scope and Contents

Folder contains five CDs

box 1, folder 11

No Borders Camp/QYOP [CD] 2007

box 1, folder 11

No Borders zine [CD] undated undated

box 1, folder 11

No Borders Camp video report [DVD] undated

box 1, folder 12

NMD (No More Deaths) photos [CD] 2009

box 1, folder 12

Photographs of San Francisco Pride at Work benefit [CD] 2008 April

box 1, folder 12

HAVOQ Variety Show [CD] 2011

box 1, folder 12

Queer Youth Organizing Project/San Francisco Pride at Work anniversary slideshow [DVD] undated

box 1, folder 12

Queer Youth Organizing Project/HAVOQ photos and flyers [CD] undated

box 1, folder 12

Unidentified flyer [CD] undated

box 1, folder 13

Miscellaneous 2005-2011

Series 2: Campaigns and Projects 2007-2012

Physical Description: 17 folders (Box 2, folders 1-11; Box 3, folders 1-5; Box 4, folder 1)

Scope and Contents

The campaigns and projects series contains material produced from 2007 through 2012 for or about various campaigns and projects central to SFPAW's mission. The campaigns and projects are as follows: Bad Hotel (a song and dance flash mob protest held in the lobby of the Westin St. Francis in support of hotel workers); CitiStop, Forced Out, and No on 98 (tenants' rights campaigns with focuses on rent control, evictions, and gentrification); Migrant Justice, (contains various efforts by the Migrant Justice Working Group regarding the immigrant detention system, an alliance with San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee, No Borders Camp [a resistance gathering at the California/Mexico border to reject borders of all kinds], "Some Thoughts" [a zine created as a companion to the report on meeting with No More Deaths, the Arizona advocacy group that seeks to end the deaths of undocumented immigrants crossing the California/Mexico border]); Undoing Borders Presentation/Tour (a touring presentation on the intersection of queer and immigrant experience; Labor (concerning sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace, a campaign highlighting Alcatraz/Hornblower Cruises and Coors boycotts, and queer and labor activist Howard Wallace); No on Sit/Lie (a resistance to Proposition L, an ordinance that would make it illegal to sit or lie on sidewalks in San Francisco); Know Your Rights (guidelines to negotiating LGBT-inclusive contract language and presentation material on gender diversity and transgender inclusion); Occupy (the international movement in opposition to social and economic inequality: SFPAW's involvement centers on demonstrations against Wells Fargo Company); Trans Healthcare and Prisoner Pen Pal Project (promoting equal healthcare for transgender people, and solidarity with trans prisoners). Materials within the campaigns and projects folders consist of action plans, press releases, notes, flyers, agendas, campaign training scripts, questionnaires, presentation typescripts and supporting materials, original graphics, stencils, poetry and prose for zine, song lyrics, newspaper articles, and ephemera. In addition, there are campaign and projects notes and other documentation within the Meetings folders in Series 2: Admininstrative Materials. There are also posters and signs from individual campaigns within the Posters and Signs folders in Series 3: Artifacts.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

box 2, folder 1

Bad Hotel 2010

box 2, folders 2-3

CitiStop 2008

Language of Material: A small amount of material in this folder is in Chinese.

Conditions Governing Access

This folder includes four documents that are restricted and sealed until 2062 to protect personal identifiable information. Redacted photocopies of these documents are provided.

box 4, folder 1

Forced Out undated

box 2, folders 4-6

Migrant Justice 2007-2009

Conditions Governing Access

Folder 4 includes two documents that are restricted and sealed until 2062 to protect personal identifiable information.

box 2, folder 7

Know Your Rights (LGBT union training materials) circa 2010-2011

box 2, folder 8

Labor circa 2008-2012

box 2, folder 9

No on Proposition 98 2008

box 2, folders 10-11

No on Sit/Lie (Proposition L) 2010

box 3, folder 1

Occupy 2011-2012

box 3, folder 2

Prisoner Pen Pal Project undated

box 3, folder 3

Trans Healthcare 2012

box 3, folders 4-5

Undoing Borders Presentation (Tour) 2010-2011

Series 3: Artifacts circa 2007-2012

Physical Description: 7 boxes (Boxes 6-11, 32 items; Box 12, folders 1-7)

Arrangement

Arranged as received.

Scope and Contents

Consists of cloth banners, t-shirts, buttons, a plaque, and ephemera. Many items promote various campaigns and projects undertaken by SFPAW.

Posters and signs

General

See Series 2: Campaigns and Projects for corresponding document files on individual campaigns and projects.

box 12, folder 1

Campaigns: Bad Hotel, Occupy, No on Sit/Lie (Proposition L) 2010-2012

box 12, folder 2

Campaigns: Forced Out, Immigrant Justice circa 2007-2012

box 12, Folders 3-4

Campaigns: Labor circa 2008-2012

Scope and Contents

Contains posters protesting Alcatraz/Hornblower Cruises and its CEO Jerry McCrae for discriminating actions against deckhand Vincent Atos, who was fired for allegedly "acting too gay" in the workplace and for attempting to organize a union. Also contains posters and signs endorsing The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

box 12, folder 5

Campaigns: Trans Healthcare 2012

box 12, folder 6

Campaigns: Social services budget cuts (anti Gavin Newsom) undated

box 12, folder 7

General undated

Scope and Contents

Posters and signs promoting San Francisco Pride at Work, workers rights, and queer justice.

Banners circa 2007-2012

box 5

Queer Revolutionary Finishing School 2012

Scope and Contents

Banner used in demonstration at Wall Street West, January 20, 2012

box 6

Existimos/We Exist We Resist 2012

Scope and Contents

Banner used in demonstration on May 1, 2012.

box 7

Queer Rights are Worker Rights and Worker Rights are Hot! undated

box 8

HAVOQ/Horizontal Alliance of Very Organized Queers undated

box 9

No Sit/Lie, No on L 2010

T-shirts circa 2007-2012

Language of Material: English.

box 10

Trans Heathcare Now! circa 2012

box 10

Pride at Work [fists] circa 2007-2012

box 10

Proud Union Queer, Pride at Work SF circa 2007-2012

box 10

Queers Stand Against Sit/Lie, No on Prop L circa 2010

box 11

Plaque - Harvey Milk In His Footsteps Award 2007

Scope and Contents

The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club plaque presented to The Youth Organizing Committee of Pride at Work.

box 11

Ephemera circa 2007-2012

Scope and Contents

Consists of three stickers and temporary tattoos, five screen printed cloth patches and signs, one bandanna, and cloth bag containing twelve buttons.

Collection Contents

Administrative Materials

Campaigns and Projects

Artifacts