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Title: Lavender Scrolls Project collection
Dates: 2007
Collection Number: 2011-04
Creator/Collector:
Lavender Seniors of the East Bay
Extent: 1 box, 1 oversize box (1 linear foot)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The Lavender Scrolls Project is a community arts and social service outreach project born of a collaboration between the Lavender
Seniors of the East Bay and the California Council for the Humanities in 2007. The collection contains the audio cassettes
of the interviews, smaller versions of the scrolls, and other project materials.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research with the exception of one oral history, which is restricted until the death of the participant.
Funding for processing this collection was provided by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
(NHPRC).
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Managing
Archivist at the GLBT Historical Society. Permission to publish is given on behalf of the Historical Society as the owner
of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be
obtained from the copyright owner. Cathy Cade retains copyright to the photographs in this collection.
[Identification of item]. Lavender Scrolls Project collection. Collection Number: 2011-04. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Cathy Cade in June 2011.
Biography/Administrative History
For more information about the project, see: http://www.lavenderseniors.org/Scrolls/index.html
Scope and Content of Collection
The Lavender Scrolls Project is a community arts and social service outreach project born of a collaboration between the Lavender
Seniors of the East Bay and the California Council for the Humanities in 2007. The collection contains the audio cassettes
of the interviews, smaller versions of the scrolls, and other project materials.
Box 1 contains transcripts of oral histories, photographs of participants, a set of mini scrolls, newspaper articles about
the project and DVD footage of events where the scrolls were displayed. Box 2 contains oral history tapes for eight subjects
living in the East Bay. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16269; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008519
Gay men
Lesbians
Aging
Oral history
Transgender people
LGBTQ
East Bay (Calif.)