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Title: Scott O'Hara papers
Dates: circa 1994-1997
Collection Number: 1998-19
Creator/Collector:
O'Hara, Scott
Extent: 4.4 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Artifacts, journals and ephemera related to porn star Scott O'Hara. Collection includes performance clothes worn by O'Hara
when he performed in sex clubs.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Scott O'Hara papers. Collection Number: 1998-19 . GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Fernando Aguayo-Garcia on May 21, 1998.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes performance clothes worn by porn star Scott O'Hara when he performed in sex clubs. Included are his
tall, lace-up leather boots. Manuscript materials include ephemera and promotional materials about O’Hara, his address book,
an interview with him and copies of five journals. Journal 1: “Why I Don’t Want a Lover: A Melodrama in Seventeen Actors,”
October 27, 1991 to December 25, 1994; Journal 2: “What Good Is a Lover,” January 2 to December 31, 1995; Journal 3: “The
Only Good Lover Is a Dead Lover,” January 3 to December 31, 1996; Journal 4: “Notes from Beyond,” January 1 to 31, 1997; and
Journal 5: “Twelve Things to Do with a Dead Lover,” January 1 to February 16, 1998. O’Hara died on February 18, 1998. There
is also a print of Beim Gorlitzer Bahnhoff, by Ulrich Krumsieg, videotapes of news programs and a copy of In This Morning
by Claudia Scott. Contact the managing archivist for a preliminary list of materials in the collection. GSSO linked terms:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_003450; http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH/D019497
Erotica
Diaries
Gay men