Containers:

Box-folder 3 : 29 - 4 : 23

Identifier:

Subseries 2.4:

Dates:

1971-2001

Extent:

0.7 linear foot

Scope and content:

This subseries contains brochures, newspaper clippings, packets, photographs, press kits, press releases, radio scripts, and other materials relating to Center publicity and public relations. The bulk of the subseries consists of press releases relating to the Center and its activities. The history files contain published and manuscript articles, drafts, and notes, many by Jim Kepner; much of the information on the earliest years of the Center is contradictory, and should be used with caution. Other historical accounts of the Center, and of particular programs and projects, can be found in the introductory sections of funding proposals (Subseries 3.8 and Series 5). The photographs include a series taken by Lee Mason in 1971 of the original offices at 1614 Wilshire Boulevard and of the Funky Gaywill Shoppe on Griffith Park Boulevard, Lillene Fifield in 1973, and the Gay Community Services Center offices at 1213 North Highland and the Feminist 11/16 strike in 1975. Additional photographs can be found in Subseries 1.2 and 5.9, Subsubseries 5.10.3, and in the Ed Edelman file in Series 7. The press coverage file contains clippings of accounts of the Center in the Los Angeles and Southern California press, while the press relations file includes correspondence with the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers concerning homophobic content. The television/radio file contains materials relating to the Center's radio program, as well as its response to the portrayal of gays and lesbians in television programs such as "The Prisoner" (1979) and "Gay Power/Gay Politics" (1980).

Arrangement:

Alphabetical.

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