Andrews (Richard) Papers, 1981-1994

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Summary

Title:
Richard Andrews papers
Dates:
1981-1994
Creators:
Andrews, Richard Lee
Abstract:
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Richard Andrews papers. UC San Francisco, Special Collections

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains AIDS-related material from the early epidemic in San Francisco. Sally Hughes collected the material during an interview with Dr. Andrews for the Community Physicians Oral History Series. Materials include: newspaper clippings, correspondence, drafts, brochures, ephemera, reports, surveys, and other publications that largely relate to the Bathhouse debate in San Francisco, California.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Richard Andrews is a psychiatrist and was an advocate for gay medical causes in the early AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, California. Until his retirement he had a private psychiatric practice consisting largely of gay men. He served as consultant in psychiatry for the Children's Home Society of California and the Social Security Administration in San Francisco. Furthermore, he played a significant role as a physician and member of Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, a gay physicians organization, during the early AIDS epidemic.

Acquisition information:
Transferred by Sally Hughes in 1998.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by UC San Francisco, Special Collections staff.
Date Prepared:
1981-1994
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.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library & Center for Knowledge Management 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 by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Richard Andrews papers. UC San Francisco, Special Collections

Location of this collection:
UCSF Library & CKM Archives and Special Collections, 530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840, US