KQED 'The Castro' Videotapes, 1996

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Summary

Title:
KQED 'The Castro' videotapes
Dates:
1996
Creators:
KQED, Inc.
Abstract:
Extent:
6 cartons (6 linear feet)
Language:
Preferred citation:

KQED 'The Castro' videotapes. GLBT Historical Society

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains 40 one inch reels from KQED’s documentary on the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco. Reels contain interviews with longtime Castro residents and more recent (including LGBTQ) residents, such as members of Eureka Valley Alumni Association, Dorr Jones, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, Cleve Jones, Phyllis Burke, Allan Berube, Marga Gomez, Brian Freeman, and Felicia Park-Rogers. Reels are arranged chronologically by bump reel number, which was originally assigned by the collection creators (KQED, Inc.) prior to donation. Transcripts of many of the interviews are available in collection administrative files in the GLBTHS archives. For more information about the contents of the reels and transcripts from many of the interviews, please contact the managing archivist. Not all the reels listed in the administrative file appear in the cartons. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_002861; http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000297; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521

Biographical / historical:

The documentary “The Castro” is the third episode in KQED’s series Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco. Produced by Peter L. Stein and David Condon, “The Castro” examines the history of the San Francisco neighborhood once known more commonly as Eureka Valley, from its early days as an Irish-Catholic working class neighborhood into one of the nation’s most prominent gay neighborhoods. Highlighting subjects such as the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH) police raid in 1965, the assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Mascone in 1978, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, “The Castro” integrates interviews with residents of the neighborhood to document the varied experiences of former Irish residents, gay men, lesbians, and queer youth. Filming for the documentary took place over the summer of 1996, and the film debuted in 1998. For more information about the making of the film, please see: http://www.kqed.org/w/hood/castro/makingcastro.html.

Acquisition information:
Gift of KQED, Inc. in October 2000.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff.
Date Prepared:
1996
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Managing Archivist at the GLBT Historical Society. Permission to publish is given on behalf of the Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner.

Preferred citation:

KQED 'The Castro' videotapes. GLBT Historical Society

Location of this collection:
989 Market Street, Lower Level
San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Contact:
(415) 777-5455
reference@glbthistory.org
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