Guide to the No on Knight Initiative Campaign Records
Guide to the No on Knight Initiative Campaign Records
Collection number: 2000-18
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical SocietySan Francisco, California
- Processed by:
- Willie Walker
- Date Completed:
- 2008
- Encoded by:
- Heather Cummins
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
- Series 1. Planning and Evaluation
- Subseries 1.1 Founding Documents
- Subseries 1.2 Planning Resources
- Subseries 1.3 Campaign Proposals from Consultants
- Series 2. Administration
- Subseries 2.1 Board of Directors
- Subseries 2.2 Executive Director
- Subseries 2.3 Correspondence
- Subseries 2.4 Staff and Volunteers
- Subseries 2.5 Staff Reports
- Subseries 2.6 Field Staff Reports
- Subseries 2.7 Field Volunteer Reports
- Subseries 2.8 Activities
- Subseries 2.9 Financial Records
- Subseries 2.10 Miscellany
- Subseries 2.11 Press Coverage of Campaign
- Series 3. Training
- Series 4. Promotion
- Series 5. Fundraising
- Series 6. No on Knight Campaign Allies
- Series 7. Knight Campaign and Supporters
- Series 8. Topical Files
- Series 9. Photographs
- Series 10. Audio, Video, and Digital Records
- Subseries 10.1 Audiotapes
- Subseries 10.2 Videotapes
- Subseries 10.3 Compact Disks (CDs)
- Series 11. Artifacts
- Series 12. Oversize Flat Documents and Artifacts
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series 1. Planning and Evaluation
Subseries 1.1 Founding Documents
Campaign Structure and Personnel
Conflict over Ballot Title
Official March Ballot Title and Arguments
Information on Registering Voters
Draft Incorporation Papers 8/1999
Subseries 1.2 Planning Resources
"The Long Haul Towards Equality in California" by Lambda Legal Defense
"How to Win Campaigns" and Other Papers by David Fleischer of NGLTF's Policy Institute
"Out and Voting in Congressional House, 1990-96"
"Out and Voting in Congressional House, 1990-96"
"Out and Voting in California?"
Other Anti-gay Measures in California
"An Anti-gay Bias" Reactionary Responses to Gay-friendly Legislation
Poll Results
"Same-sex Couples" Stanford University's Institute Research on Women and Gender 12/1999
"Same-sex Couples" Stanford University's Institute Research on Women and Gender 12/1999
Press Plan
Volunteer Plan
Field Plan
Post March 7th Election
Subseries 1.3 Campaign Proposals, Plans, and Reports from Consultants
Decision Research "California: Voter Attitude Towards Same-sex Marriage"
Dial Group (Lake, Sosin, Snell, Perry) Proposal
"Research on Same Sex Marriage" (done by Horizons Foundation) 3/1999
Focus Group Guidelines and Results 3/1999
Focus Group Responses, San Jose
Focus Group Responses, San Jose
Focus Group Responses, San Jose
Focus Group Responses, Van Nuys
Focus Group Responses, Van Nuys
Follow-Up Poll
Survey Report (1 of 4) 6/1999
Survey Report (2 of 4) 1/2000
Survey Report (3 of 4) 1/2000
Survey Report (4 of 4) 1/2000
Test Groups: Crosstabs and Charts 1/2000
Doak, Carrie, O'Donald, and Associates 1/2000
Earned Media
Earned Media
Galanty and Company
Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns, and Associates 4/1999
Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns, and Associates 9/1999
Laguens, Hamburger, and Stone (2 volumes)
Media Strategies and Research (3 of 5 volumes)
Media Strategies and Research (2 of 5 volumes)
Carol Trevelyn Strategy Group (1 of 2)
Carol Trevelyn Strategy Group (2 of 2)
Zimmerman and Markman
Series 2. Administration
Subseries 2.1 Board of Directors
Board Meeting Minutes 8/28/1999
Board Meeting Minutes 10/2/1999
Board Meeting Minutes 11/7/1999
Board Meeting Minutes 11/12/1999
Board Meeting Minutes 11/12/1999
Board Meeting Minutes 1/9/2000
Board Meeting Minutes 2/6/2000
Board Meeting Minutes 3/11/2000
Subseries 2.2 Executive Director
Application and Vita
Power Points
Talking Points
Talking Points on Religion
Points to make in Speeches
Text of Select Speeches
Presentation to NGLTF's Policy Roundtable 3/17/2000
Letter to Human Rights Campaign (for newsletter?)
Schedules
Notebooks, undated
Parody Announcing Mike Marshall's Candidacy for Unspecified Office
Subseries 2.3 Correspondence (postal mail, e-mail, and faxed messages)
Outgoing and Internal
Outgoing and Internal
Incoming From Supporters of No on Knight
Incoming From Supporters of Knight Initiative
Incoming Responses to Direct Mail Appeal 9/1999
Incoming Responses to No On Knight Website
Copies of Printed Letters to Editors
Subseries 2.4 Staff and Volunteers
Northern California Organizing (Field Strategy) Meeting 8/14/1999
(Southern California) Field Strategy Meeting, Los Angeles 11/23/1999
Staff Meeting Minutes 8/31/1999-2/29/2000
Undated Notes from Staff Meetings
Retreat Minutes (original notes and printed set) 10/16/1999
Retreat Minutes 12/12/1999
Undated Notes, Source and Purpose Unknown (Toni Broaddus?)
Subseries 2.5 Reports from Field Staff
James Cramer-Orange County
Leslie Curtis-Los Angeles
Ruben Gonzales-Riverside, Santa Barbara, and Silver Lake
Leslee Hamilton-San Jose
Esperanza Macias-San Francisco
Donatina Mastropieri-Sonoma and Sacramento
Peggy Moore-East Bay
Sherry Wright-San Diego
Wade Young-Los Angeles (includes Field Organizing Plan)
Subseries 2.6 Reports from Field Volunteers
Community Organizing in Monterrey
Community Organizing in Fresno
Subseries 2.7 Activities
Door to Door Campaign in West Hollywood on National Coming Out Day 10/11/1999
President Clinton's Remarks at ANGLE Dinner 10/2/1999
NGLTF's Religious Leadership Roundtable 1/31/2000
Phone Bank in Los Angeles
Yard Signs
Testimony by Toni Broaddus at Contra Costa County's Human Rights Commission
Election Night 3/7/2000
Asian-American Campaign
Latino Campaign
Dolores Huerta (United Farmworkers leader) Statement
Resolution from California Teachers Association
Financial Reports
Campaign Disclosure Statement
Expense Claims and Bills
Subseries 2.8 Miscellany
Bumper Stickers, Flyers and Other No on Knight Ephemera
Stationary, Forms, and Equipmennt Inventory
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories (from clipping service) 7/1999
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories 8/1999
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories 9/1999
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories 10/1999
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories 11/1999
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories 12/1999
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories 1/2000
Clippings with LGBT-related Stories 2/2000
News from the Internet
Newsletters with Endorsements or Articles
Video Monitoring Reports of LGBT-related Stories on TV Newscasts (from monitoring service) 9/1999-11/1999
Video Monitoring Reports of LGBT-related Stories 12/1999
Video Monitoring Reports of LGBT-related Stories 1/2001
Video Monitoring Reports of LGBT-related Stories 2/2001
Video Monitoring Reports of LGBT-related Stories 3/2001
Series 3. Training
Speaker Training (San Francisco) 4/17/1999
Speaker Training (Los Angeles) 9/1999
Media Training
Sign-in Sheets
Guide to Writing Letters to the Editor
Grassroots Manual
House Party Training Manual
Speakers Manual
PFLAG Media Manual (developed to help PFLAG chapters wishing to fight the Knight Initiative)
Series 4. Promotion
Media Contacts
LGBT Press
SF Chronicle
Sacramento Bee
Entertainment Press List
Radio
Top 100 Newspapers (in the US)
Old Press Lists
Editorial Meetings with Major Newspapers
Press Releases and Advisories 6/1999-3/2000
Press Conferences Background Material
Media Session 7/15/1999
Religious Leaders Press Conference 11/13/1999
League of Women Voters Press Conference 1/11/2000
Sacramento No on K Panel 1/27/2000
Orange County Rally 2/19/2000
Premiering Will and Grace Show's No on Knight TV Ad 12/9/1999
General Information
Press Pack for Fundraising
Press Pack aimed at Churches
Press Pack aimed at Latinos
Publicity Events Organized by Others
Jay Leno's Joke about the Knight Initiative 10/5/1999
Vermont Court Decision 12/1999
Press Response to the Vermont Decision
No on Knight's Response to the Vermont Decision
Op-Ed to the Los Angeles Press from Speaker Villaraigosa
Op-Ed by Richard Patterson 2/21/2000
Op-Ed by Kathleen Quenneville 2/21/2000
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) Info on Knight Initiative
Article on No on Knight Sent to Labor Newsletters
Frequently Asked Questions (draft)
Transcripts of Taped Interviews of 9 No on Knight Staff and Supporters for Use on Radio/TV spots
Threats Possessed by Knight Initiative
Cases of Discrimination Based on Martial Status
False Claims and Ads from Knight Initiative
Quotes Disproving Knight's Claim of Not Being Anti-gay
Editorials Opposing the Knight Initiative
"Just the Facts About Sexual Orientation and Youth"
Paid Advertising
Scripts for Television Ads
Telephone Campaign
"Proposition 22 and Same-gender Marriage: a Study Resource," by California Council of Churches
Organizing Religious Leaders Supporting No on Knight Campaign
Series 5. Fundraising
Campaign Fundraising Summit 1/20/1990
Funds from Major Donors
Other Donations
Direct Mail Appeal
Judy Shepard's "Journey to a Hate Free Millennium" Benefit, San Francisco 1/27/2000
Film Treatment of "Journey to a Hate Free Millennium"
Melisssa Etheridge Celebrity Roast Los Angeles 1/28/2000
Human Rights Campaign Dinner, Los Angeles 2/19/2000
Cybill Shepard Benefit, San Francisco 2/22/2000
Invitations to Other No on Knight Fundraising Events
Invitations to House Parties
Grassroots Letter Writing
Series 6. No on Knight Allies
All Our Families Coalition
All Our Families "Solidarity Sabbath" (a teach-in) 2/11/2000
"Californians for Same Sex Marriage"
"Family Pride Coalition"
David Knight (Pete Knight's Gay Son)
State Senetor Sheila Kuehl
Ward Connerly
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Endorsements and Endorsement List
Series 7. Knight Campaign and Supporters
Pete Knight
Press Releases and Ads from Knight Campaign
Catholic Church
Mormon Church
Fundraising by the Mormon Church
Original Ballot Signers
Strange Bedfellows: Eloise Anderson, Mason Weaver
Tim Carey (revealed as convicted child molester)
Jerry Falwell
Gary Bauer
Organizing for the "Protection of Marriage Act", by Mormon Church
Right-wing Prayer Breakfast Attended by Knight 2/8/2000
"Defense of Sexual Responsibility" Initiative
Series 8. Topical Files
"Federal Laws in Which Benefits, Rights, and Privileges Are Contingent on Marital Status", compiled by the General Accounting Office for Congress
Holy Union Celebration 1/15/1999
Suicide of Utah Gay Man, Stuart Mattis
Domestic Partners
Marriage
Adoption
Hate Crimes
Republicans
Courting the Gay Vote
Presidential Elections
California Legislative Issues
Series 9. Photographs
Several dozen color photos of campaign staff, volunteers, events, offices, etc. These are informal snapshots that will be identified and labeled as former staff have the opportunity to examine them. Included also is a black and white half tone image of the cast of the television show "Will and Grace" as they appeared in a Campaign promotional spot (see videotapes, below, for a recording of this spot).
Series 10. Audio, Video, and Digital Records
Subseries 10.1 Audiotapes
California Report: The Knight Initiative
"No on Night" Benefit at Freight and Salvage (folk and country music venue) 11/16/1999
Pete Knight, KFWB Los Angeles 10/11/1999
Will and Grace-Actuality
Will and Grace-Revisited 12/7/1999
Mike Marshall on No on Knight 2/23/2000
Hate Messages Recorded from Campaign Office Telephone
Subseries 10.2 Videotapes
No on Knight @ KGET Bakersfield 9/18/1999
No on Knight @ KTVU Oakland and KOUR Sacramento 9/8/1999, 9/18/1999
No on Knight @ KTVU Oakland and KOUR Sacramento 9/8/1999, 9/18/1999
No on Knight @ KCRA Sacramento 12/22/1999
Gay Marriage @ KSWB San Diego 1/5/2000
Gay Marriage @ KSL Salt Lake City 1/2000
Homosexual Marriage Not @ KABC Los Angeles 2/7/2000
Yes on Night @ KABC Los Angeles 2/7/2000
Yes on Night @ KABC Los Angeles 2/14/2000
Stuart Matis Suicide @ KSL Salt Lake City 3/3/2000
KOUR TV, Sacramento 1/5/2000
California Capitol Week
Mark Leno on Channel Five 7/7/1999
Gay Pride March, KQED San Francicso, plus Other Local Spots
LHS Media Focus Group Test Spot APeel @
LHS Media Focus Group Test Spot AThe Best @
Beta Tapes (Broadcast Masters?): "Laguens, Hamburger, and Stone" AIntend @
Interface Video for No on Knight
No on Knight Ad - Master Pack
G/L Couples with Kids
Melissa Ethridge Press Conference
Campaign Spots for Californians for Fairness, Laguens, Hamburger, and Stone. These tapes reveal some of the changes made to particular spots over a six month period. 5/3, 9/3, 10/10/1999
Complete (collection of) Campaign Spots plus the House Party Video
Test Spot AMan Interrupted, @ 1/28/2000
Test Spot AAt Her Side, @ 1/28/2000
Doak, Carrie, O'Donald, and Associates 2/18/1999
Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns, and Associates 9/1/1999
Galanty and Associates: Examples of Other Spots from Previous Clients
Lightning Dubs: Examples of Spots from Previous Clients
Knight Initiative, (KRON? San Francisco) 12/20/1999
Interview with Gay Couples, KGO San Francisco 12/21/1999
San Diego Headline Debate
Los Angeles Speaker Training 9/22/1999
Raw Footage of Children and Couples with Children, Dolores Park
ACreated Equal: The Cheryl Summerville Story @ (job discrimination)
Hawaii Marriage Ads 1998
AB 222 (Kuehl) Assembly Floor Debate, California Legislature 06/03/1999
Televised News Stories and Reactions Related to Knight Initiative
News: National Coming Out Day 10/10/1999
Bay TV circa 2000
Election Night Coverage 03/07/2000
Subseries 10.3 Compact Disks (CDs)
Music CD: Bill Sharp A Love Always Equals Love @ - for No on Knight Campaign
Photo CD: No on Knight Media Events and Stars, (Two CD Set) 2/1/2000
Series 11. Artifacts
Banner No on Prop 22, Black spray paint on white poly/cotton sheet, 88 x 100 inches unrolled banner
Banner $20 donation to benefit No on Knight, Vote no on Prop 22
No on Knight Logo with Website address. Red, white, and yellow on black plastic. 44 x 96 inches unrolled
Oversize poster Big Buck on large dollar symbol. 22 x 36 inches unrolled
Paper banner "End Discrimination Vote No on Prop 22"
Vinyl banner "It's Divisive, It's Intrusive, It's Unfair, No on Knight"
Folders for Press Packets: One black and one tan, about 9 x 12 inches
2 small (4 x 6 inches) American flags on short wooden dowels
No on Knight cotton t-shirt, white
No on Knight ballpoint pen
Letter/file stamp: Californians for Fairness, 505 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105. Plastic exterior. 3 x 4 x 13 inches (?)
No on Knight cloth caps (2)
Series 12. Oversize Flat Documents and Artifacts
Back to back plastic protest signs from opposition: Protect Marriage and Yes on 22. 16 x 25 inches. Sealed on top and sides but open on bottom to allow easy mounting on a picket stake.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): "Anti-Gay Measure on California Ballot, March 7, 2000"
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): www.noonknight.org. 17 x 22 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): No on Knight = Prop 22. 14 x 22 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Vote El 7 de Margo, Diga no a la Proposcion 22, and Diga no a la Descrimination. 13 x 19 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Equality = Inheritance Rights. 12 x 18 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Equality = Respect for our Families. 12 x 18 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Equality = Joint Insurance Benefits. 12 x 18 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): My Marriage Doesn't Need Protection but Civil Rights Do! 11 x 17 inches (laminated).
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Protect all Families. No on 22. 11 x 17 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Vote March 7. No on Knight. Prop 22. 12 x 16 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Join Us 3/6/2000. March begins at 4 pm. 11 x 17 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Stop the Hate March. 7th Vote No on 21 and 22. 11 x 17 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Pete Knight's racist poem with text of poem. 11 x 17 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Out in Coronado. October 11, 1999 (National Coming Out Day). 11 x 17 inches.
Printed Signs (all on posterboard or other paper): Out in Coronado. October 11, 1999 (National Coming Out Day). 11 x 17 inches.
3 sets (10 sheets) of folded planning sheets, hand-annotated marking pen on butcher paper. 14 x 24 inches up to 27 inches by 33 unfolded.
2 handmade signs on butcher paper listing the propositions on March 7th ballot. 27 by 33 inches unfolded.
2 hand lettered event calendars for Oct/Nov and Dec/Nov and Dec/Jan 16 x 22 inches. Annotated poster facts about the author of "No on Night" mounted on foam core. 142 x 20 inches.