Finding aid to the B.W. Grant Barnes papers, 1913-2008
Coll2013-036
Hilary Robman and Loni Shibuyama
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
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Language of Material:
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Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: B.W. Grant Barnes papers
creator:
Barnes, B.W. Grant
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013-036
Physical Description:
9.6 Linear Feet
9 archive boxes + 1 archive carton.
Date (inclusive): 1913-2008
Date (bulk): bulk
Abstract: Reports and administrative files from the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), subject and research files, and personal
papers (bulk, 1970-2000) from Attorney B.W. Grant Barnes. The collection includes extensive subject files pertaining to Barnes'
research in international human rights laws; records documenting his work in the Individual Rights Section of the LACBA; and
his personal writings, correspondence and other material documenting his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian organizations.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English and German.
Biography
B.W. Grant Barnes was born in Stephenville, Texas. He graduated high school in 1966, then attended the University of Texas
for his bachelor's degree. He graduated in 1972, with High Honors in Sociology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and Architecture.
After living in Berlin in the mid-1970s while teaching English, he moved back to the United States and graduated Harvard Law
School in 1982.
His legal experience includes international counseling and litigation practice (including providing counsel to Swedish and
German law firms and assisting local firms in California in state and federal litigation and business due diligence), international
law, international civil aviation, securities regulation and mortgage acquisition litigation, insurance coverage, labor litigation
and counseling (including performance/recording contracts), construction claims, government contract law, and general business
negotiable law.
Barnes was involved in gay rights activism, including research in international human rights violations and LGBT legal issues
in the United States. He also advocated for LGBT immigration rights, same-gender marriage and AIDS awareness and support.
He was a member of LGBT groups including AIDS Project Los Angeles, Asian/Pacific Lesbians & Gays, Gay Bruins, Lawyers for
Human Rights and Lambda Lawyers. He also participated on the rowing team in the Gay Games of 1994 in Amsterdam.
As of 2013, Barnes continues to live in Los Angeles, California.
Source:
B.W. Grant Barnes Papers, Coll2013-036, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Acquisition
Gift of B.W. Grant Barnes, September 4, 2008.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] B.W. Grant Barnes Papers, Coll2013-036, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Processing Information
Formerly boxes 102-011, 103-050, 103-079, 103-080, 103-236, 103-255, 104-127, 104-156. Collection processed by Loni Shibuyama
and Hilary Robman, June 2013.
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises reports and administrative files from the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), subject and
research files, and personal papers (bulk, 1970-2000) from Attorney B.W. Grant Barnes. The LACBA and Gay and Lesbian Legal
Issues Series includes records documenting his work in the Individual Rights Section of the LACBA, as well as material documenting
gay and lesbian legislation and legal cases, particularly in California and Hawaii. The Subject Files Series comprises extensive
files of clippings and articles pertaining to Barnes' research in international human rights laws. The Personal Papers Series
includes Barnes' personal writings, correspondence and other material documenting his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian
organizations. In particular, this series includes material from LGBT lawyers organizations, the rowing team from the 1994
Gay Games, sound recordings from the OutWrite conference for gay and lesbian writers, and Barnes' writings, including fiction,
non-fiction and poetry.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in the following series:
Series 1. Los Angeles County Bar Association and gay and lesbian legal issues
Series 2. Subject files
Series 3. Personal papers
Potential Deaccession
Series 2: Subject Files is made up mostly of subject file material regarding general human rights and civil rights issues
around the world, with seemingly little to no discussion about LGBTQ issues. Perhaps the only files in this series to retain
would be the "Gender issues" folders regarding men and women's roles, and homosexuality.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Homosexuality -- Research
Homosexuality -- Law and legislation
Gays -- Law and legislation
Clippings
Correspondence
Gay and lesbian rights
Human rights advocacy
AIDS (Disease)
International law and human rights
Poetry
Homosexuality -- Germany -- History
Gay men's writings
Barnes, B.W. Grant
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Gay Games
Los Angeles County Bar Association and gay and lesbian legal issues Series 1.
1980-2000
Series Description
This series includes meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, newsletters, financial records, and resource material
documenting Barnes' work in the Individual Rights Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). The Individual
Rights Section concentrates on legal issues that affect individual liberty, including those involving LGBT and AIDS patients'
rights. This series also includes government-issued reports, clippings, legal briefs and other material documenting LGBT
legal issues.
Arrangement
Administrative files from the Individual Rights Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association are at the beginning of
this series and arranged chronologically. The remaining folders are arranged alphabetically.
Box 3, Folder 1-21
Los Angeles County Bar Association, Individual Rights Section
1989-1996
Physical Description: [21 folders]
Box 4, Folder 1-5
Los Angeles County Bar Association, Individual Rights Section
1995-1996
Physical Description: [5 folders]
Box 4, Folder 7
Boy Scouts of America case
1999-2000
Box 4, Folder 8
California legislation
1988-1994
Box 4, Folder 6
"Creating an Environment Conducive to Diversity"
1991
Box 4, Folder 9
"Hate Crime in Los Angeles County"
1989
Box 4, Folder 10-11
Hawaii, gay issues
1995-1998
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 4, Folder 12
"Homosexuality: A European Community Issue"
1993
Box 4, Folder 14-15
Legal cases
1980-1987
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 4, Folder 16
"Same-gender Marriage on the Horizon; Issues for Practioners"
1996
Subject files Series 2.
1913-2003
Series Description
This series comprises subject files containing clippings, photocopied articles and book chapters, bibliographies, journals,
notes, correspondence, conference proceedings, reports, and other material collected by Barnes, primarily for his research
in international human rights.
Arrangement
Unsorted clippings and photocopied articles have been placed at the end of this series. The remaining folders are arranged
alphabetically.
Box 4, Folder 18-19
Africa, human rights
1973-1983
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 4, Folder 20
Amnesty International
circa 1993-1996
Box 4, Folder 21
Aptheker, Bettina. "Personal Background"
undated
Box 4, Folder 23
Australia and South Pacific anthropology
1970-1977
Box 4, Folder 24-25
Asia, East, and India, human rights
1977-1983
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 5, Folder 15
Bakke, Allan and Marco De Funis; "Positive Discrimination"
1975-1979
Box 4, Folder 26
Behavioral psychology
1971-1975
Box 9, Folder 1
Bibliographies
circa 1968
Box 5, Folder 1-2
China, human rights
1972-1980
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 7, Folder 10
Classical and ancient history
1973-1977
Box 9, Folder 17
Conference papers, Cabanal-Evan's class
1983
Box 5, Folder 6
English history
1973-1975
Box 5, Folder 5
English legal history
1962-1978
Box 5, Folder 8
Men's roles; homosexuality
1978-1979
Box 5, Folder 9
Sexual abuse on men
circa 1993
Box 5, Folder 10
Status of women
1961-1980
Box 5, Folder 11-12
3rd Reich; World War 2
1945-1980
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 5, Folder 13
3rd Reich; law, war crimes
1944-1979
Box 5, Folder 14
Apo-Kriegsdienst Verweigerer
1968-1972
Box 5, Folder 16
Communes and alternative to families
1967-1979
Box 5, Folder 17
Counter culture seminar
1970-1971
Box 5, Folder 18
Counter-culture theory, bohemians
1968-1980
Box 5, Folder 19
DDR cultural life and travel
1973-1979
Box 5, Folder 20
Deutscher Widerstand
1968-1979
Box 5, Folder 21
Die Enstehung des Faschismus Theorien Hitler
1968-1979
Box 5, Folder 22
Fritz Teufel and Group "Klau Mich"
1967-1978
Box 5, Folder 23
Germanic marriage customs
1913-1978
Box 5, Folder 24
Hippies and Gammler
1966-1974
Box 5, Folder 25
Informationen zur Politischen Bildung
1978-1996
Box 6, Folder 6
"Moral Dilemmas in a Repressive Society: Nazi Germany" (Social Sciences 162)
1965-1979
Box 6, Folder 1
"Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort," by Peter Loewenberg
1971
Box 6, Folder 4
Rockers, West German youth sub-culture
1968-1973
Box 6, Folder 5
Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (SDS) and Dutschke Cohn-Bendit
1967-1978
Box 6, Folder 7
Sociology of youth
1968-1975
Box 6, Folder 8
Student and youth press; "Konhret"
1967-1974
Box 6, Folder 9
Students demography attitudes
1968-1978
Box 6, Folder 10
Student demonstrations; court cases
1968-1980
Box 6, Folder 11
Student movement; general, theoretical, responses, and criticism
1967-1981
Box 6, Folder 12
Student organizations; West Germany red cells
1968-1973
Box 6, Folder 13
Studenten in der BRD
1967-1968
Box 6, Folder 14-15
Weimar
1967-1980
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 6, Folder 16
Greek philosophy; Plato, Aristotle
1960-1975
Box 6, Folder 17-18
Holocaust
1971-1983
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 4, Folder 13
"Homosexuals, Human Rights and the Religious Society of Friends, Or--Queer Quakers: Faggots, Faeries and Friends"
1989
Box 6, Folder 20-23
Islamic law
1958-1980
Physical Description: [4 folders]
Box 7, Folder 1-3
Japan, human rights
1953-1980
Physical Description: [3 folders]
Box 7, Folder 4
Juveniles and the law; gangs, juvenile justice
1973-1980
Box 7, Folder 5
Korea, human rights
1975-1980
Box 7, Folder 7
Latin America, human rights
1968-1983
Box 7, Folder 6
Latin America travel
1973-1978
Box 7, Folder 8
The Behavior of Law, by Donald Black
1972-1976
Box 7, Folder 9
Church, State, and Christian Society, by Gerd Tellenbach
1959
Box 7, Folder 15
"Field Statements: Sociology of Law"
1973-1979
Box 7, Folder 13
"Law and Ideology," Judith Shklar
undated
Box 7, Folder 12
Law and Society, by Stig Jorgensen
1970
Box 7, Folder 14
"Law, History and Society" class; "Marriage in Medieval (canon) Law"
1978
Box 7, Folder 11
"Materials on Law, History, and Society" seminar; "Deposition of Richard II"
1978
Box 7, Folder 16
Sociology of Law, by G. Sawer (ed.)
undated
Box 6, Folder 2
Medieval church and state (Social Sciences 2)
1970-1978
Box 8, Folder 3-4
Islamic, Arabic
circa 1970-1985
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 8, Folder 1
Law of the Near Middle East: Cases and Materials, by Herbert J. Liebesny
1975
Box 8, Folder 5
Mideast; North Africa
1978-1983
Box 8, Folder 2
Persian Gulf; Kuwait
1977-1984
Box 8, Folder 6-7
Morocco
circa 1964-1982
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 8, Folder 9
Police vigilantes
1968-1981
Box 8, Folder 10
Prisons and peneology
1970-1981
Box 8, Folder 12
Sociology of the court room juries
1970-1983
Box 8, Folder 13
Sociology of music
1967-1979
Box 8, Folder 14-15
South Africa, human rights
1975-1983
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Box 8, Folder 18-21
University of Wisconsin, Center for Demography and Ecology
1986-1995
Physical Description: [4 folders]
Box 8, Folder 17
University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty
1975-1976
Box 10, Folder 1-5
Articles and clippings, numbered photocopies
circa 1950-2003
Physical Description: [5 folders]
Box 9, Folder 2-16
Articles and clippings, unsorted
circa 1950-2003
Physical Description: [14 folders]
Personal papers Series 3.
1965-2008
Series Description
This series comprises manuscripts, correspondence, organization flyers and promotional material, newsletters, audiocassettes,
minutes, and other material documenting Barnes' involvement in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and AIDS organizations,
his participation in the 1994 Gay Games, his fiction and non-fiction writings, his educational background, and other interests.
Arrangement
This series is arranged alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 1-2
AIDS information
circa 1982-1995
Box 1, Folder 3
AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA)
circa 1982-1995
Box 1, Folder 4-5
Art exhibits and galleries, promotional material
circa 1990-2000
Box 1, Folder 6
Asian/Pacific Lesbians and Gays (A/PLG)
1992-1994
Box 1, Folder 8
Class notes and syllabi
1976-1978
Box 1, Folder 10
Correspondence
circa 1984-1995
Box 1, Folder 11
Correspondence, email printouts
1995-2008
Box 1, Folder 12
Correspondence, Euro-Queer
1980-1995
Box 1, Folder 13
Correspondence, gay-bruins email
1998-2003
Box AC, Item AC1898
Defamation by Harvey Fierstein [sound recording]
undated
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette.
Box 1, Folder 15
Eroticizing Safe Sex Workshop
undated
Box 1, Folder 16
Feminists for Life of America
1994-1995
Box 4, Folder 27
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
1986-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes bylaws and certificate of incorporation.
Box 1, Folder 17-19
Gay Games
circa 1990-1998
Physical Description: [3 folders]
Box 1, Folder 22
Gay Games, Team Hawaii
1998
Box 1, Folder 23
Golden State Peace Officers
1996-1997
Box 1, Folder 24-27
Harvard Law School
1983-2002
Physical Description: [4 folders]
Box 1, Folder 29
Law firm rejection letters
1981-1983
Box 2, Folder 1
Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights
1982-1984
Box 2, Folder 2
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR)
1989-2000
Box AC, Item AC1899
Leprosy, the Plague and AIDS; Dr. John Boswell
1986
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette.
Box 2, Folder 3
Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force
1995-2003
Box 2, Folder 4
Mailing lists and business cards
undated
Box 2, Folder 5
"Jim Sleeper" (first draft)
undated
Box 2, Folder 6
"Legal Theories and Social Change"
1976
Box 2, Folder 8
Manuscript, untitled
undated
Box 2, Folder 9
Manuscript, untitled
undated
Box 2, Folder 10
Music, theater, opera and ballet programs
circa 1994-1996
Box 2, Folder 12-15
Organizational mailers, flyers and brochures, LGBT
1983-2000
Physical Description: [4 folders]
Box 2, Folder 16
Organizational mailers, flyers and brochures, non-LGBT
1985-1996
Box AC, Item AC1893-AC1897
OutWrite: 5th National Gay and Lesbian Writers Conference [sound recording]
1995
Physical Description: 5 audiocassettes.
Box 2, Folder 17
Newsletters, non-LGBT
1981-1994
Box 2, Folder 18-20
Poetry manuscripts, by Barnes
1998
Box 10, Item 6
The Secrets of Successful Living [sound recordings]
1970
Box 2, Folder 21
Southern Poverty Law Center, Klanwatch
1981-1989
Box 2, Folder 22
Student papers, by Barnes
1965-1978
Box 2, Folder 23
Wedding and memorial programs
1990, 1993
Box 2, Folder 24
Writing guidelines and contests
circa 1995
Box 2, Folder 25
Miscellaneous
circa 1986-1998
