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Title: Chana Wilson audiotapes
Dates: 1973-1982
Collection Number: 2003-07
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3 linear feet (two cartons, one manuscript box)
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Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Chana Wilson is an author, storyteller, and former radio host who was involved with three lesbian radio shows between 1973
and 1982: Lesbian Air (collectively produced), Radio Free Lesbian (collectively produced and/or produced by Wilson), and A
World Wind (produced and hosted by Wilson). Recordings primarily capture interviews, live music, and poetry and other readings
by women.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society, with the exception of the 2018 addition of the
programs “Mom’s a Dyke” and “The Lesbian in Literature.” 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, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Chana Wilson audiotapes. Collection Number: 2003-07. GLBT Historical Society
The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by Chana Wilson in 2003, with an additional donation in 2018.
Biography/Administrative History
Chana Wilson is an author, storyteller, and former radio host who was involved with three lesbian radio shows between 1973
and 1982: Lesbian Air (collectively produced), Radio Free Lesbian (collectively produced and/or produced by Wilson), and A
World Wind (produced and hosted by Wilson). She is also the author of a memoir, Riding Fury Home, about her mother’s own coming
out as lesbian.
Scope and Content of Collection
Recordings primarily capture interviews, live music, and poetry and other readings by women. Interviews include The Meteorites,
a disabled lesbian basketball team; Bay Area Women AGAINST RAPE; "Manushi" collective with Indian feminists; and discussions
with Native American women. Poetry and literature readings include pieces by Pat Parker, E.M. Broner, Martha Shelley, as well
as Asian women poets. Music recordings include Swing Shift, Flash Silvermoon, Deanna Alida, and Debbie Lempke. Reels are unsorted
but labeled, although some content is labeled as unknown. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008525;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007696
Lesbians
Radio
Jewish people