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Title: Jason Howard journals
Dates: 1978-1993
Collection Number: 1997-38
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .2 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection consists of eight handwritten personal diaries kept by Jason Howard between 1978 and 1994. Born in Pittsburgh
in 1952, Howard moved to New York in 1975 for the adventures of the city's emerging gay culture. He moved to San Francisco
in 1979 and worked at St. Francis Hospital and at the University of California, San Francisco.
Language of Material: English
The collection is under some restrictions until November 5, 2022. It is open for research, but researchers may not reveal
names or personal information about people discussed in the journals until that date has passed.
[Identification of item]. Jason Howard journals. Collection Number: 1997-38. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Rick Collins on November 5, 1997.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of eight handwritten personal diaries kept by Jason Howard between 1978 and 1994. Born in Pittsburgh
in 1952, Howard moved to New York in 1975 for the adventures of the city's emerging gay culture. He moved to San Francisco
in 1979 and worked at St. Francis Hospital and at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Howard died of AIDS
related complications in 1996. His journals chronicle his daily life, as well as the effect the AIDS epidemic had on his community.
GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521; http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH/D019497
Diaries
AIDS (disease)
Gay men