Martin Meeker collection, 1943-2003

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Martin Meeker collection. GLBT Historical Society

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Contains materials collected by historian Martin Meeker. The collection includes audiotapes of oral histories, including the “Go West” interviews Meeker conducted for his dissertation and book, “Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s”; and slides from his presentation, “Communication, Migration and the Making of the Homosexual Communities in the 1950s and 1960s.” The subject files, ephemera and news clippings were a gift to Meeker from Bill Tellman, who was a painter and Chuck Arnett’s “widow.” Tellman’s files include “Chuck Arnett’s ‘Morgue’ for Gayle Rubin,” a small amount of correspondence and personalia, and a photo album labeled “Will Tellman’s Gay Uncle,” from the 1940s. Interview subjects are Bill Tellman, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, Ida Red, Don Lucas, Hal Call, Simon Karlinsky, Lori Guidos, David Barnard, Bill [Choisser], Jim Hicks, Leonard Shapiro, Carol Seajay, Gerson Goodkind, Bruce Baird, Mike Caffee, Perry Wood, Bill Reque, Richard Tooker, Weldon Rash, Linda Blackmore, Larry Buttwinick. There are also tapes of a 1950s radio program that included a character that could be gay. The sound quality of the interviews varies. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008536; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008519; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381

Acquisition information:
Gift of Martin Meeker on April 19, 2008.

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Collection is open for research. This collection has been digitized in partnership with Gale/Cengage. Contact the GLBT Historical Society archivist for information regarding access to the digital collection.

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Martin Meeker collection. GLBT Historical Society

Location of this collection:
989 Market Street, Lower Level
San Francisco, CA 94103, US
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(415) 777-5455
reference@glbthistory.org
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