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Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of organizational and subject files on GLAAD/SFBA and related topics, as well as a large amount of audiovisual material from between 1982 and 1991, relating to the Gay Games, queer activism, and the national conversation on queer identity. 24 Betacam tapes of Gay Games events have been digitized, as have 53 cassette tapes of the Games, community organization meetings, and interviews with queer community leaders. The GLAAD/SFBA files contain incorporation papers; minutes and agendas of meetings; newsletters; media committee files; records of actions against the Chronicle, Examiner, and radio and television stations, including KQED; and recordings and complaints concerning Rush Limbaugh, Morton Downey, and local shock jocks. Collection also contains files on KQED, PBS, and discrimination against queer comedians, as well as clippings and subject files. Contents of cartons containing audiovisual material are listed below. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008529; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008525; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008514
- Biographical / historical:
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Zane Blaney is a radio journalist, producer, and co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation/San Francisco Bay Area (GLAAD/SFBA), a group which advocates for an end to bigotry and misinformation about LGBTQIA+ people in media. Blaney began working in radio at the age of 15, beginning at a small-town station in Wyoming and progressing through Denver, Albuquerque, and Sacramento to San Francisco. Beginning in the late 1970s, Blaney began recording interviews with San Francisco’s queer leaders, which became a series of independent audio documentaries aired on PBS radio stations. In 1982, he worked with a small independent television crew to produce recordings of the first Gay Games. As a member of GLAAD/SFBA, he served as board member and media chair.
- Acquisition information:
- The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by Zane Blaney in 2016, with subsequent accretions in succeeding years.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Gay men
Sports
Radio
Television
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1977-1992
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
- Preferred citation:
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Zane Blaney collection. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455