Health Outreach Team Records, 1985-2002

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Scope and content:: Founded by Geoffrey Froner and Stefan Rowniak, the Health Outreach Team (HOT) was an organization “engaged in street-based AIDS education and health care management” in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood from 1987 through 1996. In a 1989 article, Froner and Rowniak explained that “indigent people, particularly those of racial or ethnic minority groups and those engaged in illicit drug use” were the focus of HOT. Records in this collection also highlight men who have sex with men (MSM) and trans people. Correspondence, memoranda, meeting notes, scientific articles, newspaper clippings, field notes, daily client logs, and photographs document HOTs operations and interactions between outreach workers and clients. Also included are dozens of VHS and U-Matic tapes with street interviews in the Tenderloin, extended interviews with clients in residential hotels, recordings of news segments, and educational videos about AIDS.
Acquisition information:: Gift of Stefan Rowniak, September 2023.

Subjects:: LGBTQ
People of color
Transgender people
AIDS (disease)
Substance use
Places:: Tenderloin (San Francisco, Calif.)

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff.
Date Prepared:: 1985-2002
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

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Restrictions:: The collection is unprocessed. The collection includes protected health information. Material with protected health information is restricted until 2046. Other material in the collection may be available to researchers under supervision of the Archivist. Please contact the Archivist for more information.
Terms of access:: Copyright to materials created by Stefan Rowniak 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. Copyright to other materials in the collection may be held by their creators, or the creators' heirs or assigns. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Location of this collection:: GLBT Historical Society

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San Francisco, CA 94103, US