Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains materials related to the legal career and political activism of Irwin E. Keller (b. 1960), an attorney, former executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the Bay Area and member of the Kinsey Sicks. The bulk of the collection consists of pleadings, correspondence and drafts from, and press about, People v. Frankie Don Huie, Jr. This was a landmark 1989 case in which the National Gay Rights Advocates fought to discredit the “homosexual panic” defense. Keller’s firm, Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, were cooperating counsel. There are also memos regarding the inclusion of gays and lesbians in affirmative action programs in the legal profession; a small amount of correspondence and protest materials written by Keller; ephemera, newsletters and news clippings from Queer Nation and ACT UP; materials from Men Who Care about Women’s Lives, a group that claimed to be the first all-male pro-choice organization in the United States; and news clippings about various queer protests regarding the media, the military and the law. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_002861; http://2Fpurl.obolibrary.org/obo/LifO_0000064; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004300; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Irwin E. Keller.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1987-1991
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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Irwin E. Keller papers. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455