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Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Daniel Bao papers
- Dates:
- 1987-2004
- Creators:
- Bao, Daniel
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 0.6 linear feet (1 manuscript box and 1 half manuscript box)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Daniel Bao papers. GLBT Historical Society
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists of materials Bao accumulated in the course of his activism and non-profit work while a Stanford student, board member at the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, and staffer at the Living Well Project and API Wellness. Included are reports from GAPA retreats from 1993 and 1996; minutes from a 1997 GAPA board meeting; materials related to a 1992-1993 effort to form a national Asian American LGBT organization; 1993 and 1996 directories of Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBT organizations; mailers, brochures, programs, and other ephemera from Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations, including Condom Resource Center, Asian Pacific Lesbian Bi Women, South Bay Queer & Asian, Korean AIDS/Gay Project, Asia Pacific Lesbians and Gays of Los Angeles, and Gay Asian + Pacific Islander Men of NY; an issue of the Indonesian publicantion GAYa Nustantara; five t-shirts; and other materials related to LGBT and Asian American issues.
- Biographical / historical:
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Daniel Bao is a gay, Chinese-Argentinian American activist, accountant, horn player, and non-profit worker. Bao was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 8, 1966. In 1974, Bao, his parents, and sister moved to the United States, first to Westbury, NY and then, in 1976, to the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Homestead High School and Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, graduating in 1984. Bao attended Stanford University, earning a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Latin American Studies in 1988 and 1990, respectively. Beginning in 1986, he was active in campus lesbian and gay and AIDS education organizations, serving as Treasurer for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford (GLAS) and an educator with the Stanford AIDS Education Project. After graduating from Stanford in 1990, Bao began to work with Asian American AIDS and LGBT organizations in San Francisco, first starting part-time at the Condom Resource Center. He became a member of Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA, known as of April 2024 as the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance) in 1990, serving on the board from 1992 to 2000. He also helped to distribute Diseased Pariah News, an irreverent zine by, for, and about people with HIV. In 1993, he was hired as a staffer for GAPA Community HIV Project (GCHP), an organization addressing the AIDS crisis in the Bay Area’s Asian American communities. In 1995, GCHP became the Living Well Project. Then, in 1996, Living Well combined with the Asian AIDS Project to become API Wellness. He left his role at API Wellness in 2002. Bao began his long association with the GLBT Historical Society in, approximately, 1989-1990, when he traveled from Stanford to the San Francisco Bay Area Gay/Lesbian Historical Society collections, then kept at member Willie Walker’s house in San Francisco, to conduct research for a course paper for Prof. Estelle Freedman’s class. Bao joined the Archives Committee in the early 1990s and later served as a board member (1994-2004) and Acting Executive Director (2004). Since 2004, he has maintained the Society’s finances.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Daniel Bao on December 1, 2005.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1987-2004
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by the National Archives' National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to materials created by Daniel Bao 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.
- Preferred citation:
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Daniel Bao papers. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455