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DeCrescenzo (Teresa) Papers
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Teresa DeCrescenzo papers
creator:
DeCrescenzo, Teresa
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2015-006
Physical Description:
3.6 Linear Feet
1 archive box + 1 flat archive box
Date (inclusive): 1975-2008
Abstract: Administrative records, articles, bibliographies, clippings, correspondence, meeting notes, photographs, and project proposals,
1975-2008, primarily documenting Teresa DeCrescenzo's social work on behalf of at-risk lesbian and gay teenagers. Decrescenzo
served as the president of the board of directors at the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center and started Gay and Lesbian
Adolescent Social Services (GLASS) in West Hollwyood for at-risk lesbian and gay teenagers.
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.
One restricted file of staff records and therapist evaluations. The remainder of the collection is open to researchers.
[Box/folder #, or item name] Teresa DeCrescenzo Papers, Coll2015-006, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Cooper Moll and Kyle Morgan, 2015.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection was donated as part of the Betty Berzon Papers, Coll2011-004, on February 15, 2009, March 24, 2009, and October
3, 2011.
In the early 1980s, Teresa DeCrescenzo worked as a social worker with the Los Angeles County Probation Department and served
as the president of the board of directors at the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center. In 1984, she quit her job with
the county and started Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS) with a six-bed group home for at-risk lesbian and
gay teens in West Hollywood. The organization closed operations in 2008. DeCrescenzo was a long-time partner of Betty Berzon.
Administrative records, articles, bibliographies, clippings, correspondence, meeting notes, photographs, and project proposals
of Terry DeCrescenzo, 1975-2008. The records primarily document DeCrescenzo's LGBT-related social work, most notably with
at-risk LGBT teenagers.
Betty Berzon Papers, Coll2011-004, ONE Archives and the USC Libraries, Los Angeles, California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay youth
Lesbian youth
DeCrescenzo, Teresa
DeCrescenzo, Teresa
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (West Hollywood, Calif.)