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Title: Diane Germain papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1961
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.8 linear feet
(6 boxes, 1 carton, and 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): 1941-2010
Abstract: Diane F. Germain is a French-American lesbian-feminist psychiatric social worker. She conducts the Lesbian History Project
and created and conducted a strength group for Women Survivors of Incest and/or childhood molestation. She was one of the
founding members of Dykes on Hikes, The Lesbian Referral Services, Beautiful Lesbian Thespians, and California Women's Art
Collective. She was an early principal member of the San Diego Lesbian Organization and a collective member of both Las Hermanas,
a women's cultural center and coffee-house, and the Califia Community, a feminist education retreat. She worked at Lambda
Archives throughout the 1990s interviewing women for history and gathering collections. She later returned to serve as the
Student Volunteer Coordinator. She was the staff cartoonist for
HotWire: The Journal of Women's Music,
Culture of Chicago, and
Lesbian News. The collection contains materials from activist organizations in which Germain was herself involved, magazine and newspaper
clippings that included her artwork, organizational records relating to the coffee house Las Hermanas, and educational presentations
for the Califia Community and other organizations.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button
located on this page.
Creator:
Germain, Diane F.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections material must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Diane Germain Papers (Collection 1961). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Diane F. Germain, 1990, 1997, 1998, 2012.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) , and the
UCLA Library .
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2017.
This collection has no Box 6.
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6962954
Diane F. Germain is a French-American lesbian-feminist psychiatric social worker. She conducts the Lesbian History Project
and created and conducted a strength group for Women Survivors of Incest and/or childhood molestation for five years. She
was one of the founding members of Dykes on Hikes, The Lesbian Referral Services, Beautiful Lesbian Thespians, and California
Women's Art Collective. She was an early principal member of the San Diego Lesbian Organization and a collective member of
both Las Hermanas, a women's cultural center and coffee-house, and the Califia Community, a feminist educational retreat.
She worked at Lambda Archives throughout the 1990s interviewing women for history and gathering collections. She later returned
to serve as the Student Volunteer Coordinator. She was the staff cartoonist for
HotWire: The Journal of Women's Music,
Culture of Chicago, and
Lesbian News. She is featured in both the anthology
Tomboys! edited by Lynne Yamaguchi and Karen Barber, and
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology.
Diane F. Germain was not only interested in documenting her own experiences, but also in documenting the representation of
women in the media as well as preserving lesbian culture on the whole for posterity. The collection contains materials from
activist organizations in which Germain was herself involved, as well as information and resources from other like-minded
organizations such as the Gay Alliance for Equal Rights and the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. She also collected
magazine and newspaper clippings that featured her artwork and participated in other projects like the presentation on women
wrestlers included here. Financial documents and other organizational records relating to the coffee house Las Hermanas and
presentations meant for the Califia Community educational retreat are included in the collection.
Materials arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Subject files
- Series 2: Collected clippings, ephemera, and literature
- Series 3: Correspondence
- Series 4: Las Hermanas
- Series 5: Activist organizations and programs
- Series 6: Women Wrestlers
This collection has no Box 6.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Germain, Diane F. -- Archives
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
Lesbian activists--United States--Archives.
Women social workers--United States--Archives.