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Title: GLBT Historical Society Film and Video Collection
Dates: circa 1950s-2010s
Collection Number: GLBT-VIDEO
Creator/Collector:
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Extent: 22.95 linear feet (17 oversized boxes, 3 cartons, and 3 manuscript boxes)
Online items available
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: GLBT Historical Society (GLBTHS) records suggest that GLBTHS board members, volunteers, community donors, and staff brought
together this collection of videocassettes, DVDs, video reels, and film reels from the late 1980s through the early 2010s.
The collection documents a range of LGBTQ activities and topics and encompasses numerous genres, including event and protest
recordings, documentaries, public access television episodes, interviews, news broadcasts, feature films, and adult videos.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Processing and description of this collection was supported by funding provided by the State
of California, administered by the California State Library.
All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT
Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on
behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use
requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
[Identification of item]. GLBT Historical Society Film and Video Collection. Collection Number: GLBT-VIDEO. GLBT Historical
Society
This is an artificial collection assembled by staff and volunteers of the GLBT Historical Society. In most cases, records
regarding donors could not be located as of January 2024.
Scope and Content of Collection
GLBT Historical Society (GLBTHS) records suggest that GLBTHS board members, volunteers, community donors, and staff brought
together this collection of videocassettes, DVDs, video reels, and film reels from the late 1980s through the early 2010s.
The collection documents a range of LGBTQ activities and topics, including GLBTHS programming and exhibitions; HIV/AIDS issues
and activism; title competitions, especially women’s and men’s leather competitions; protests, including the 1989 Castro Sweep
and the 1987, 1993, and 2000 Marches on Washington; drag performances; 1970s and 1980s concert recordings; select 1990s and
2000 Imperial Court events; sports, including women’s football and several Gay Games; and LGBTQ and kink sexual practices.
The collection encompasses numerous genres, including public access television, including episodes of Electric City, Lavender
Lounge, and City Beat; documentaries; talk show episodes; interviews with community members; news broadcasts; educational
and public service announcements, particularly related to HIV/AIDS; feature films; and adult videos, including videos centering
queer women from Fatale and Lavender Blue Productions.
For many years, GLBTHS reformatted films, tape reels, U-matic, and Betacam—including films dating from the 1950s and 1960s—to
VHS for reading room use. This collection includes many of these tapes.
LGBTQ
Amateur film
Motion pictures
Television