Douglas Conrad collection, 1991-2005

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Summary

Creators:
Conrad, Douglas
Abstract:
Photographs, a transcript, typescripts, clippings, and promotional flyers and pamphlets documenting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in Hungary, Poland and Serbia, 1991-2005, collected by San Francisco gay activist, Douglas Conrad. The collection includes documents from Shades of Red and Pink, an oral history project begun by Conrad to document GLBT people in Eastern European countries.
Extent:
0.4 linear foot. 1 archive carton.
Language:
and Languages represented in collection: English and Hungarian.
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder #, or item name] Douglas Conrad Collection, Coll2013-095, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes photographs, a transcript, typescripts, clippings and promotional flyers and pamphlets documenting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in Hungary, Poland and Serbia, 1991-2005, collected by San Francisco gay activist, Douglas Conrad. Notably, the collection includes documents from Shades of Red and Pink, an oral history project begun by Conrad to document GLBT people in nine Eastern European countries; photographs of GLBT communities in Poland and Hungary in 1991; and materials from a cross-cultural GLBT exchange program between Belgrade, Budapest and San Francisco.

Biographical / historical:

"[Douglas Conrad] has been active in the US Lesbian/Gay community for nearly two decades. He has worked on the steering committee of the 1987 March On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, co-chaired the 1988 San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade and Celebration, and has been conducting and developing an archive of Oral Histories of sexual minorities in nine Eastern/Central European countries since 1991. He co-produced the first Siberian Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and the 1997, 98, and 99 Budapest International Lesbian/Gay Film Festivals."

Source:

Box 1, Folder 9, Douglas Conrad Collection, Coll2013-095, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Douglas Conrad, October 6, 2006.
Processing information:

Collection processed by Loni Shibuyama, October 2013.

Arrangement:

Douglas Conrad's Shades of Red and Pink project documents are at the beginning of this collection. The remaining files are arranged alphabetically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder #, or item name] Douglas Conrad Collection, Coll2013-095, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

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