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Title: Robert Lee Ferrell, Jr. papers
Dates: 1977-1989
Collection Number: 1990-01
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .2 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection contains materials collected by Robert Lee Ferrell, Jr. regarding his activism against the Briggs Initiative
(Proposition 6).
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Robert Lee Ferrell, Jr. papers. Collection Number: 1990-01. GLBT Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains materials collected by Robert Lee Ferrell, Jr. regarding his activism against the Briggs Initiative
(Proposition 6). Ferrell (1947-1989) was born in North Carolina and moved to San Francisco in 1978. He died of AIDS. The collection
contains records from the Bay Area Committee Against the Briggs Initiative (BACABI), including flyers, leaflets, outreach
to celebrities, rally messages and statements against Prop. 6, notes and correspondence, and a Speakers Bureau Handbook. There
are also flyers, meeting minutes and membership materials from the National Caucus of Gay & Lesbian Counselors (flyers, meeting
minutes, membership materials, 1978-1979), and materials from a program on "Homophobia, Anita Bryant, John Briggs and You"
at the 1979 APCA Convention in Los Angeles. The collection also contains reprints of articles about LGBT people and counseling,
a small amount of correspondence and materials from Ferrell’s memorial service. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_003201;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_002861
Politics and elections
Homophobia