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Title: Tede Matthews papers
Dates: circa 1965-1991
Collection Number: 2021-12
Creator/Collector:
Matthews, Tede
Extent: 13 linear feet (9 cartons, 1 oversized box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The collection includes material collected and created by Tede Matthews (July 29, 1951-July 17, 1993). Matthews was a longtime
member of the Modern Times Bookstore collective, a performer, poet, writer, and an activist for LGBTQ rights in the United
States and Latin America. The collection includes personal writings and poetry, works of art, publications, photographs, audiovisual
recordings, personal journals, and other material.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Tede Matthews papers. Collection Number: 2021-12. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Maureen O’Neil and the Estate of Charles Barragan, June 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes material collected and created by Tede Matthews (July 29, 1951-July 17, 1993). Matthews was a longtime
member of the Modern Times Bookstore collective, a performer, poet, writer, and an activist for LGBTQ rights in the United
States and Latin America. Matthews started Modern Times’ monthly open reading for LGBTQ writers and created the store’s Spanish
language section. He also hosted Mainstream Exiles, a salon for poets and musicians at the Valencia Rose, and performed with
the radical theater group Angels of Light. Matthews helped found Bay Area Gay Liberation in the 1970s, Lesbians and Gays Against
Intervention in the 1980s, worked with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s Latin American programs
in the 1990s, and became an AIDS activist. He died of AIDS in July 1993. The collection includes personal writings and poetry,
works of art, publications, photographs, audiovisual recordings, personal journals, and other material. The collection is
unprocessed.
Gay men
Drag
Latinx people
Art
Theater
Poetry and literature