Angela Brinskele photographs, 1986-2008

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Summary

Creators:
Brinskele, Angela
Abstract:
Angela Brinskele has been the Director of Communications of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives since 2006. Brinskele is also a freelance photographer who aims to preserve women's history through photography. She has been documenting the LGBT community since the mid 1980's and has documented many LGBT organizations and events including the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, Women On a Roll, Dinah Shore Weekend, Prides all over Southern California, as well as covering political activism including the 1991 March on the Capitol in Sacramento over AB101. This collection contains photographs covering gay and lesbian cultural and pride events from 1986 through 2008, with a focus on lesbians in Southern California.
Extent:
1.2 linear feet (1 record carton and 1 half document box)
Language:
and Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Angela Brinskele Photographs (Collection 2158). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains photographs covering gay and lesbian cultural and pride events from 1986 through 2008, with a focus on lesbians in Southern California.

Biographical / historical:

Angela Brinskele has been the Director of Communications of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives since 2006. She is the first paid staff person since they were founded in 1981. Brinskele studied photography at Cal State Fullerton and works as a freelance photographer who aims to preserve women's history through photography. She has been documenting the LGBT community since the mid 1980's with a special emphasis on Lesbians in Southern California. Brinskele has worked as a photographer for The Lesbian News for several years, as well as for Outfest since the late 1990s. Angela has documented many LGBT organizations and events including the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, Women On a Roll, Dinah Shore Weekend, Prides all over Southern California, as well as covering political activism including the 1991 March on the Capitol in Sacramento over AB101.

Acquisition information:

Donation, 2013.

This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library .

Processing information:

Processed by Stacy Wood, 2012.

Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Jessica Tai in 2017.

The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library. These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize, preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.

Arrangement:

Materials arranged chronologically within categories.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance through out electronic paging system using the "Request items" button.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance through out electronic paging system using the "Request items" button.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Angela Brinskele Photographs (Collection 2158). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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