Finding aid to the San Francisco Pride at Work Records
Finding aid prepared by Angie Lin Mendoza and Wendy Welker.
Labor Archives and Research Center
2018
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722
larc@sfsu.edu
Title: San Francisco Pride at Work records
Date (inclusive): 1998-2012
Date (bulk): 2007-2012
Creator:
Pride at Work. San Francisco Pride at Work
Physical Description:
7.25 Cubic Feet
(12 boxes and 2 oversize folders of textual materials, artifacts,13 CDs and 1 USB flash drive)
Collection number: larc.ms.0418
Accession number: 2017/004
Repository:
Labor Archives and Research Center
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
San Francisco State University
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu
Abstract: The records of San Francisco Pride at Work (SFPAW) contain papers, artifacts, and digital content which document and illustrate
the mission, campaigns, projects, ideas, and activities of the often irreverent group of LGBTQ activists. SFPAW, a self-described
non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian, radical queer organization, sought, through direct action, to build coalitions between
organized labor and the LGBTQ community around social and economic justice issues.
Physical Location: Materials are stored offsite; requires advance notice.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English.
Availability
Collection is open for research. A few documents have been restricted to protect personal identifiable information. Access
restrictions are noted at the file level. Please contact the Director of the Labor Archives and Research Center for more information.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives and Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Labor Archives and Research Center 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 by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], San Francisco Pride at Work Records, larc.ms.0418, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco
State University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated By Molly Anne Goldberg, 2017 (2017/004).
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into the following series: Series 1: Administrative Materials, 1998-2012; Series 2: Campaigns
and Projects, 2007-2012; Series 3: Artifacts, 2007-2012.
History of San Francisco Pride at Work
San Francisco Pride at Work (SFPAW), was a membership-based organization of queers for economic and social justice in San
Francisco. Probably formed between 2006-2007, SFPAW was the San Francisco chapter of the National Pride at Work organization,
which became an official affiliated constituency group of the AFL-CIO in 1997. An almost entirely volunteer-run organization,
SFPAW was the LGBTQ arm of the Bay Area labor movement, actively campaigning to protect workers' rights and defending queer
justice in the workplace. The organization is sometimes referred to by the name HAVOQ (Horizontal Alliance of Very Organized
Queers). SFPAW's central enterprise was the Queer Youth Organizing Project (QYOP), which was renamed HAVOQ in 2009 and subsequently
used as an alternative name for the organization. Internal divisions led to the demise of SFPAW/HAVOQ in late 2012/2013.
Scope and Contents
The records of San Francisco Pride at Work (SFPAW) contain papers, artifacts, and digital content which document and illustrate
the mission, campaigns, projects, ideas, and activities of the often irreverent group of LGBTQ activists. SFPAW, a self-described
non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian, radical queer organization, sought, through direct action, to build coalitions between
organized labor and the LGBTQ community around social and economic justice issues. The materials in this collection reflect
those issues that were central to the group, including workers' and tenants' rights, healthcare, immigrant justice, and gender
nonconformity. Some of the material in the collection is in Spanish.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pride at Work. San Francisco Pride at Work
Horizontal Alliance of Very Organized Queers
Sexual minorities -- Political activity -- California -- San Francisco.
Sex discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- California -- San Francisco.
Gay rights -- California -- San Francisco.
Transgender people -- Civil rights -- California -- San Francisco.
Gender nonconformity -- California -- San Francisco.
Immigrants -- Civil rights -- California -- San Francisco.
Human rights advocacy -- California -- San Francisco.
Political posters
Banners
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 6
National PAW newsletters
1998-2004
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
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, 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 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 9
No on Proposition 98
2008
box 2, folders 10-11
No on Sit/Lie (Proposition L)
2010
box 3, folder 2
Prisoner Pen Pal Project
undated
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.
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
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.