Patricia Callahan files on Orange County lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activism, 1965-2005, bulk 1985-1993, bulk 1985-1993

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Summary

Abstract:
This collection primarily documents AIDS, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activism in Orange County, California circa 1985-2005, including material on the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), Laguna Outreach, and the No on 64 Campaign. Also included are VHS tapes, audiocassette tapes, and pins and buttons. The bulk of the collection consists of Patricia Callahan's subject files.
Extent:
3.5 Linear Feet (10 boxes, 1 OS folder) and 1.4 unprocessed linear feet
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Patricia Callahan Files on Orange County Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Activism. MS-R119. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection primarily documents AIDS, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activism in Orange County, California circa 1985-2005 including material on the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), Laguna Outreach, and the No on 64 Campaign. The bulk of the collection consists of Patricia Callahan's subject files, which include materials she collected as co-chair of Election Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), one of California largest political action committees. The subject files also include correspondence, campaign, and lobbying materials from Callahan's involvement with the "No on 64" campaign, which successfully fought to prevent the quarantine of AIDS/HIV patients; the California Assembly Bill 101 campaign to add "sexual orientation" to the list of protected categories in the California Fair Employment and Housing Act; and the City of Irvine's Human Rights Ordinance, which included the term "sexual orientation" in an anti-discrimination ordinance. Additionally, the collection includes correspondence, research, news clippings and awards collected by Don Hagan and Drew Barras related to AIDS activism. The collection also documents the 25th anniversary of The Center OC.

Materials include correspondence publications, news clippings, newsletters, brochures, articles, pamphlets, directories, a catalog, 14 videocassettes (VHS), audiocassettes, printed ephemera, agendas, minutes, memorial materials, photographic prints, and ephemera, such as buttons and pins.

Biographical / historical:

Patricia Callahan was an AIDS activist and leader in the LGBT community in Orange County, California during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She contributed to a number of organizations, committees, and conferences that supported gay and lesbian rights and AIDS awareness and education including: the Election Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), Laguna Outreach, The Human Rights Campaign Fund, and The Federation. Through her work with ECCO, Callahan lobbied and campaigned on issues directly affecting the LGBT community and people with HIV/AIDS. As of 2009, Callahan was living in Laguna Beach, California.

Don Hagan and Drew Barras, also leaders in the Orange County LGBT community, worked with Patricia Callahan on a number of projects and campaigns. The two men, a physician and veterinarian, were committed to gay and lesbian rights and AIDS awareness and education. On April 1, 1989 the doctors were honored by San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos for their activist work on behalf of people with AIDS. Don Hagan died in 1992 from an AIDS related illness.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Barbara Muirhead and Dick Hitt of the Orange County LGBT Historical Timeline Project in 2003, 2004, and 2008. Gift of Pat Callahan, 2019 March.
Custodial history:

The files were donated to the Orange County LGBT Historical Timeline Project by Patricia Callahan and later given to Special Collections and Archives by Barbara Muirhead and Dick Hitt. Some of the files belonged to Don Hagan and Drew Barras and were given to Patricia Callahan before they passed away.

Processing information:

Processed by Joanna Lamb, 2009. Updated by Zoe MacLeod, 2022.

Duplicates and news clippings unrelated to Orange County were not retained.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 3 series.

  • Series 1. Patricia Callahan's subject files, 1984-2002. 2.10 linear feet
  • Series 2. ECCO scrapbook, 1985-2005, .2 linear feet
  • Series 3. Don Hagan and Drew Barras' subject files, 1965-1991. .5 linear feet

The collection also contains one unprocessed addition:

Accession 2019-024, 1986-1990.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Processed components of the collection are open for research. Unprocessed additions may contain restricted materials. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access. Access to original video recordings and audio tapes is restricted; researchers may request viewing or listening copies.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.

Preferred citation:

Patricia Callahan Files on Orange County Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Activism. MS-R119. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Location of this collection:
P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA , US
Contact:
(949) 824-3947
spcoll@uci.libanswers.com
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