Administrative Records Series 1:
circa 1968-1979
Physical Description: 24 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The Administrative records consist of the Articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, and ballots for the board of directors,
1978-1979. The information packets contain a meeting agenda, November 1968, along with later newsletters. The remaining folders
document the bail bond program, with the Bail Bond Program file containing blank applications, on-duty call lists, and a list
of pseudonyms used by the Los Angeles Police Vice Detail. The Membership files contain orders for membership cards and lists
of members. The Applications file contains completed applications; access to this file is restricted, as the applications
include personally identifiable information.
Box 1, Folder 1
Articles of incorporation and by-laws
1969-1972
Box 1, Folder 2-7 ; 7, Folder 1
(Oversize)
Minutes
1968-1976
Physical Description: 7 folders.
Box 1, Folder 8-9
Ballots for board of directors
1978-1979
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 7, Folder 2 (Oversize)
Information packet
1968-1971
Box 1, Folder 11
Bail bond program and applications
1971-1978
Box 2, Folder 1-2
Membership card orders
1969-1976
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2, Folder 3
Membership lists
1973-1977
Box 5-6 (Restricted)
Applications
1971-1978
Physical Description: 9 folders.
Box 5, Folder 6
Administrative records, assorted
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes a partnership agreement with John Embry and a list of the board of directors from 1972-1977
Correspondence Series 2:
1969-1984
Physical Description: 10 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The Correspondence series contains several organized and two unorganized folders of general correspondence. The Howard Efland
folder contains a few documents related to his alleged murder at the Dover Hotel. Using the pseudonym J. McCann, Howard Efland
checked into the Dover Hotel. In the early morning hours of March 9, 1970, Los Angeles Police Department Vice Detail Officers
allegedly beat him to death. The Black Pipe Tavern police raid folder documents a police raid of a HELP fundraiser and its
aftermath. The remaining arranged folders contain board of directors, Alcoholic Beverage Control, and
Drummer newspaper subscription correspondence. The final folder contains a scrapbook of pamphlets and flyers by Paul Roberts, titled
Religion and the Gays.
Box 2, Folder 4-7
General
1969-1984
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 2, Folder 8
Howard Efland (pseudonym, J. McCann)
1970
Box 2, Folder 9
Board of directors
1970-1977
Box 2, Folder 10
State of California, Alcoholic Beverage Control
1972-1973
Box 2, Folder 11
Black Pipe Tavern HELP fundraiser raid
1972-1975
Box 2, Folder 13
Religion and the Gays
1969-1972
Bail Bonds and Attorney Referral Records Series 3:
1970-1976
Physical Description: 16 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
After being arrested a HELP member would call the phone number provided, and contact the HELP person on duty. This person
would confirm the arrested person's membership and arrange for a bail bond if necessary. The member would also be provided
with the contact information for several attorneys who worked with HELP. These attorneys would report back to HELP on the
status of the members' cases. This series consists of the lists of attorneys, and reports from the attorneys on which members
contacted them and the status of their cases. The series is arranged with the referral lists followed by the attorneys' reports,
arranged alphabetically.
Box 2, Folder 14
Attorney referral lists
1971-1976
Box 3, Folder 1
Andelson, Sheldon
1971-1973
Box 3, Folder 2
Berg, Stanley P.
1971-1973
Box 3, Folder 8
Margolin, Bruce
1970-1971
Box 3, Folder 11
Rehkop, C. Neil
1972-1973
Box 3, Folder 12
Russell, Thomas
1971-1973
Box 3, Folder 14
Selwyn, Herbert
1971-1973
Financial Records Series 4:
1969-1981
Physical Description: 7 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The Financial Records series contains expense and income receipts, including bail bond bills, along with the records from
such fundraisers as Kingmasters' "Night of Stars," the Hawks' art auction, and HELP's own "The Rides of Spring." The two folders
of unorganized receipts include receipts, bills and a check register. The bills for bail bonds were issued to non-members
or non-current members, or for arrests not covered by HELP.
Box 3, Folder 16-18
Expense/income receipts
1969-1981
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 3, Folder 20
Kingmasters' "Night of Stars" fundraiser
1972-1975
Box 3, Folder 21
Hawks' art auction fundraiser
1973-1975
Box 4, Folder 1
HELP's "The Rides of Spring" fundraiser
1977
Publications and Ephemera Series 5:
1970-1979
Physical Description: 14 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
The series consists of the newsletters, brochures, mailings, flyers, and a "H.E.L.P.line" column in the Los Angeles gay newspaper,
Data-Boy, by which HELP reached out to and informed its members. HELP began publishing a newsletter in 1970. In 1972, this newsletter
was superseded by the Los Angeles newspaper
Drummer, of which HELP was a joint publisher. However, the joint publication of
Drummer led to infighting between members, some of whom had stakes in other local publications, and HELP's involvement in the publication
of
Drummer ceased at the end of 1973. In 1974, HELP resumed publication of the newsletter, which continued through January 1979, when
it was superseded by
Outreach: Journal of the Homophile Effort for Legal Protection, which lasted just two issues. The series also contains photographs from the newspaper and later newsletters.
Box 4, Folder 2-4
Newsletters
1970-1979
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 4, Folder 12
T-shirt decals
circa 1976
Box 4, Folder 5
Drummer newspaper
1971-1973
Box 7, Folder 5 (Oversize)
Box 4, Folder 6
"H.E.L.P.line" typescripts
circa 1976
Box 4, Folder 7
Outreach: Journal of the Homophile Effort for Legal Protection
1979
Box 4, Folder 9
Brochures
circa 1970-1978
Box 7, Folder 3 (Oversize)
Box 5, Folder 7
Promotional materials, assorted
circa 1970-1978
Box 7, Folder 4 (Oversize)