Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Nielsen, Sass
- Abstract:
- Sass Nielsen worked at Disney Studios in Burbank, California throughout the 1990s. Her advocacy work, growing out of the group Hollywood Supports (a nonprofit organization promoting awareness of AIDS and gay issues) concerned the extension of health benefits for same sex partners as well as organizing around lesbian and gay issues in the workplace. In 1992, she successfully organized to form the Lesbian and Gay United Employees (LEAGUE). This collection includes research, correspondence, and collected materials related to gay and lesbian issues including information from activist organizations as well as publications treating the issue historically.
- Extent:
- 0.4 linear feet (1 box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sass Nielsen papers (Collection 2162). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection includes research, correspondence, and collected materials related to gay and lesbian issues including information from activist organizations as well as publications treating the issue historically.
- Biographical / historical:
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Sass Nielsen worked at Disney Studios in Burbank, California throughout the 1990s. Her advocacy work, growing out of the group Hollywood Supports (a nonprofit organization promoting awareness of AIDS and gay issues) concerned the extension of health benefits for same sex partners as well as organizing around lesbian and gay issues in the workplace. In 1992, she successfully organized to form the Lesbian and Gay United Employees (LEAGUE). As a young woman she was kicked out of the armed forces for being a lesbian. She also wrote fiction.
- Acquisition information:
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Gift of Sandra (Sass) P. Nielsen, 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:
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Processed by Stacy Wood, 2012. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2017.
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- Arrangement:
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Materials arranged by type.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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:
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[Identification of item], Sass Nielsen papers (Collection 2162). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988