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Title: Richard Labonté photographs and certificate
Dates: circa 1990-2000
Collection Number: 2023-27
Creator/Collector:
Labonté, Richard
Extent: .25 linear feet (1 half manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Color photographs documenting the social world of A Different Light (ADL) bookstore's San Francisco location in the 1990s,
including ADL staff, an event by the cultural activist collective Boy with Arms Akimbo, and the 1996 Readers and Writers conference.
Also includes a certificate, signed by San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano, commemorating the San Francisco Board of Supervisor’s
proclamation of August 21, 2000 as Richard Labonté Day in San Francisco.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Richard Labonté photographs and certificate. Collection Number: 2023-27. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Richard Labonté, July 2021.
Biography/Administrative History
Richard Labonté (1949-2022) was a Canadian author, editor, and business person who helped to found the A Different Light bookstore
chain.
Scope and Content of Collection
Color photographs documenting the social world of A Different Light (ADL) bookstore's San Francisco location in the 1990s,
including ADL staff, an event by the cultural activist collective Boy with Arms Akimbo, and the 1996 Readers and Writers conference.
Also includes a certificate, signed by San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano, commemorating the San Francisco Board of Supervisor’s
proclamation of August 21, 2000 as Richard Labonté Day in San Francisco.
LGBTQ
Photography
Art
Activism
Bookstores
Different Light Bookstores