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Adrignola (Mark) Behavioral Modification Conference Zap photographs
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Mark Adrignola Behavior Modification Conference Zap photographs
creator:
Adrignola, Mark
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014-120
Physical Description:
1 folder
[2 contact sheets, 11 photographic prints, and 2 negative strips]
Date (inclusive): 1970
Abstract: Negatives, contact sheets, and photographic prints of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) zap of the Behavior Modification Conference
in Los Angeles, California, photographed by Mark Adrignola. Adrignola and Walter Blumoff had documented the event as freelance
photographers.
The Advocate published Adrignola's photographs in the November 11, 1970 issue on page one and page three.
Container: 1
Mark Adrignola was born and raised in the midwestern United States, he relocated to Los Angeles where he met Walt Blumoff,
a freelance photographer. Blumoff asked Adrignola to join him in photographing Gay Liberation Front (GLF) zap of the Behavioral
Modification Conference in Los Angeles. Adrignola had recently received a new camera and was eager to give it a try. The Advocate
selected his images for the news article published in the Novermber 11, 1970 issue on pages one and three.
He later moved to Houston and then Thailand. In 2014, he married his husband.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquistion
Deed of gift dated, December 05, 2013.
[Image,] Mark Adrignola Behavioral Modification Conference Zap Photographs, Coll2014-120, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Michael C. Oliveira, November 2014.
The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) members interrupted Dr. M. Philip Feldman's film documenting aversion therapy treatments of
gays and took control of the behavioral modification conference session. Dr. Albert Marston of the University of Southern
California, the moderator of the session, and GLF members agreed to break into small groups to discuss aversion therapy. Arignola
captured the event and sold his photographs to the
The Advocate. His photographs include images of Tony De Rosa, Lee Heflin, Morris Kight, Don Kilhefner, Brenda Weathers, Carolyn Weathers,
and Del Whan (identified as Dell Reed).
Mitchell, Pam. "Honey, We Unshunk the Shrinks." In
Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation, edited by Tommi Avicolli.Mecca, 182-189. San Francisco, Calif: City Lights Books, 2009.
"Psychologists get Gay Lib 'therapy,"
The Advocate November 11-24, 1970.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Gay activists
Lesbian activists
Gay Liberation Front/Los Angeles