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.”

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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.