Guide to the Karen Hight files on Orange County lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and queer activism MS.R.206
Finding aid prepared by Zoe MacLeod, 2021
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Title: Karen Hight files on Orange County lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer
activism
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.206
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear Feet
(1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): Circa 1991-2003
Abstract: This collection includes materials that
document lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism in Orange
County.
Condition Description: Materials
are in good condition.
Language of Material:
English .
Access
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Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access.
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Preferred Citation
Karen Hight files on Orange County lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer activism.
MS-R206. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Libraries, Irvine, California. [Date
Accesses].
Acquisition Information
Gift of Karen Hight, 2019.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection includes materials that document lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
queer (LGBTQ) activism in Orange County.
More specifically among the materials in the collection are newspaper clippings documenting
a confrontational encounter in 1993 between Orange County LGBTQ activists, including Karen
Hight, and Reverend Lou Sheldon on a plane on the way to Orange County from the March on
Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi-Equal Rights and Liberation. The March on Washington for
Lesbian, Gay and Bi-Equal Rights and Liberation took place in Washington, D.C. on April 25,
1993. It was the third march for lesbian and gay rights in the United States. The first took
place in 1979 and the second in 1987. Sheldon is the founder and at the time was the head of
the Traditional Values Coalition, an anti-gay American Conservative Christian organization.
At the time Sheldon was the head of the anti-gay Traditional Values Coalition. At the time
of the plane incident, LGBTQ activist Karen Hight was an advertising representative for the
Lesbian News, and a staffer with the Orange County edition of the Los Angeles Times.
Some materials in the collection include LGBTQ magazines, such as Blade and LN: The Lesbian
News, and press releases and promotional material for the 1994 Orage County Cultrual
Pride.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay activists--California--Orange County
Lesbians--California--Orange County
Gays--California--Orange County
Gay rights--California--Orange County
box 1, Folder 1
America Airlines and Reverand Lou Sheldon letter and newspaper
clippings
1993
box 1, folder 4
Frontiers vol. 12 issue 2
1993 May-June
box 1, folder 5
Blade
1993 June, 1998 August
box 1, folder 6
March on Washington newspaper clippings
1993
box 1, folder 7
The Center Connection
2003 January - June
box 1, folder 8
LN: The Lesbian News
1991-1993
box 1, folder 9
LN: The Lesbian News
1993-1995
