Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Mark Adrignola Behavior Modification Conference Zap photographs
- Dates:
- 1970
- Creators:
- Adrignola, Mark
- 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.
- Containers:
- Folder: 1
- Extent:
- 1 folder [2 contact sheets, 11 photographic prints, and 2 negative strips]
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
-
[Image,] Mark Adrignola Behavioral Modification Conference Zap Photographs, Coll2014-120, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Deed of gift dated, December 05, 2013.
- Processing information:
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Collection processed by Michael C. Oliveira, November 2014.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Sponsor:
- Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2016-08-31 18:07:51 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
- Terms of access:
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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:
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[Image,] Mark Adrignola Behavioral Modification Conference Zap Photographs, Coll2014-120, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
- Location of this collection:
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909 West Adams BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90007, US
- Contact:
- (213) 821-2771