Title:

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives collection of film and video, circa 1965-1999

Creator/Contributor:

ONE Institute & Archives, creator

This collection features film and video materials that reflect the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Interviews with pioneers of the LGBT movement such as Jim Kepner, Dorr Legg, Morris Kight, Pat Rocco, Stewart Szidak, Bob Basker, Cliff Anchor, Sarah Dreher, and Samuel Steward are featured as part of the IGLA Interviews with Notable Gays and Lesbians from Los Angeles and around the country and the ONE Institute lecture series. Other materials included are sexual hygiene films from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, public service announcements, AIDS awareness videos from the Los Angeles County AIDS Office, Mattachine pioneers panel at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles on June 1, 1986, videos of various ONE/IGLA events and benefits, Christopher Street West parades in Los Angeles, gay protests in Washington, D.C., Athletic Model Guild videos, the film and video collection of female impressionist Charles Pierce (1926-1999) featuring his short film, Schizo (1965), the film collection of animation and experimental film expert William Moritz (1941-2004) that predominantly consists of the films of photographer and artist Robert Opel (1939-1979) made under Opel's Fey-Way Studios, and includes the gay erotic film, Fuck you, Santa Claus (1978). Other materials in the collection consist of videos from the following public access cable television programs broadcast during the 1990s: Howard and Dave's man to man show (Los Angeles area public access cable), To tell the truth TV (a Dallas, Texas Sunday morning worship service with Rev. Michael Piazza), One in 10 people (Virginia public access cable), Nothing to hide (Madison, Wisconsin public access cable), Momentum TV (distributed by the Human Rights Campaign Fund), Dyke TV (NYC public access cable), and Gay News Network. The collection also features gay erotic films and video, which comprise the bulk of the materials.

Date:

1965 (issued)

Subject:

ONE Institute & Archives -- Archives

Sexual minorities -- Archival resources

Kepner, Jim -- Interviews

Legg, W. Dorr -- d. 1994 -- Interviews

Kight, Morris -- Interviews

Rocco, Pat -- Interviews

Anchor, Cliff -- Interviews

Basker, Bob -- Interviews

Dreher, Sarah -- Interviews

Steward, Samuel M -- Interviews

Pierce, Charles -- 1926-1999 -- Archives

Moritz, William -- 1941-2004 -- Archives

Opel, Robert

Athletic Model Guild.

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Materials entirely in English.

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the world's largest research library and archive devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) concerns. ONE began in 1942, when writer and activist, Jim Kepner (d. November 15, 1997 at the age of about 74), began a private collection of gay-related materials while he was living in New York City. After moving to Los Angeles, California, Kepner attended his first meeting of the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights organization, in 1952. Later that year, several members of the Mattachine Society, including educator and activist, Dorr Legg (1904-1994), met to discuss creating a gay magazine. On November 29, 1952, they formed ONE Inc. and published the first issue of ONE magazine in January 1953. In 1956, Kepner, Legg, and Merritt M. Thompson (1884-1970) founded the ONE Institute, the educational arm of ONE Inc. that conducted seminars and published a journal that ceased publication in 1967. In 1971, Kepner named his collection, The Western Gay Archives, and opened it to researchers. He filed for non-profit status in 1979 and moved his renamed collection, The Gay Archives: The Natalie Barney/Edward Carpenter Library, into a more accommodating building in Hollywood, California. In 1988, the Archives' name was changed to the International Gay and Lesbian Archives (IGLA) to reflect the growing scope of the collection. IGLA and the ONE Institute merged in 1994 to become what is today the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.

Copyright has not been assigned to the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Inventory list available. Inquire at the Archive Research and Study Center or refer to the online .pdf version cited in this record..

Deposit; ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives; 2006.

Further accruals are expected.

Manuscripts, photographs, graphic materials, ephemera, subject files, records, and publications. Available at; ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives; 909 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007.

16 mm. film reels; Fuck you Santa Claus. 1978; Inventoried in the online catalog at the item level.

16 mm. film reel; [ABC news. 197-?--unedited footage. Interview with Robert Opel]; Inventoried in the online catalog at the item level.

16 mm. film reel; Tea room scene. 1975; Inventoried in the online catalog at the item level.

16 mm. film reel; Schizo. 1965; Inventoried in the online catalog at the item level.

ONE adventure. c1973; Inventoried in the online catalog at the item level.

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Forms part of: Outfest Legacy Project.

Type:

motion picture

Gay erotic films.

Oral history.

Interviews.

approximately 1500 films, 3000 videos.

English

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/pdfs/FTVStudyGuides/The_One.pdf

Collection 19

Origin:

California

APPOINTMENT REQUIRED FOR VIEWING MATERIALS ONSITE. Inquire at the Archive Research and Study Center for further information (email: arsc@ucla.edu).

Copyright has not been assigned to the UCLA Film & Television Archive.