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Finding Aid for the Sass Nielson papers
1974-1976
LSC.2162
LSC.2162
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Title: Sass Nielsen papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2162
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.4 linear feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1974-1976
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.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button
located on this page.
Creator:
Nielsen, Sass
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections material must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary 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.
[Identification of item], Sass Nielsen papers (Collection 2162). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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 .
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2012. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2017.
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is 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 . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7384778
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.
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.
Materials arranged by type.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
Nielsen, Sass -- Archives.
Gay rights--United States.
Lesbian activists--United States--Archives.