Lavender Scrolls Project collection

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GLBT Historical Society

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San Francisco, California 94103

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2023

Descriptive Summary

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

Access

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).

Publication Rights

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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Lavender Scrolls Project collection. Collection Number: 2011-04. GLBT Historical Society

Acquisition Information

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

Indexing Terms

Gay men

Lesbians

Aging

Oral history

Transgender people

LGBTQ

East Bay (Calif.)