ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives1.3 linear feet. [5 folders]Notes, articles, photographs, and photo/ink collages documenting the career of nightclub owner and musician, Joanie Hannon. Hannon was owner or co-owner of lesbian- and gay-friendly bars and nightclubs in California beginning in the 1950s. Hannon was also an accomplished drummer who appeared as a member of the all-girl band in the 1958 film, Some Like it Hot . The collection includes photographs and photo/ink collages (presumably created by Hannon) documenting the bars/nightclubs she owned, including the North Hollywood bar for which she is most well known, Joani Presents.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives29.2 linear feet.Fliers, brochures, and clippings of marketing materials of studios and distributors of erotic images and products. Studios and distributors marketed a variety products including artworks, photographs, moving images, and assorted products. The collection documents the advertising and distribution of gay erotic materials. Advertisements were placed in magazines and newspapers marketed to gay men. Studios and distributors would primarily send fliers, catalogs, and requested merchandise through the mail.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives3 oversize boxes 2 linear feetPhotographs taken by Joseph Hawkins at the 1996 Tagata Honen Festival in Kamaki, Japan. This annual Shinto festival is a fertility rite and a celebration of life, and its key focus is a large phallus carved from a sacred Japanese cypress tree. The collection also includes descriptive labels from an exhibit of the photographs, mementos from the festival, and a 1993 map of Japan.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives5.0 photographs. 4 black and white photographic prints and 1 black and white contact sheetAlan Roberts photographs of the trial of Lionel Williams, accused killer of Sal Mineo, undated.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives29.0 photographs. Color photographic printsSteve Cross photographs of Orange County's first Gay and Lesbian Pride festival held in 1989 at Centennial Park in Santa Ana, California.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives1.2 linear feet.31 Kirk/Spock slash fiction zines, 1978-1986, based on characters from the 1966-1969 television series "Star Trek", including five issues of T'hy'la , six issues of Naked Times , and five issues of the Out of Bounds series.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives0.1 linear foot. [1 folder]Publicity, meeting minutes, clippings, flyers, newsletters, organizational statements, correspondence, notes, and member lists documenting the Coalition for Human Rights (San Francisco), founded in 1977 to "represent the community of lesbians and gay men" toward the end of building a society free of "discrimination and oppression based on sex and sexual orientation."Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives6 archive cartons + 1 banker's box + 19 scrapbook album boxes (10 linear feet).Journals and scrapbooks containing photographs, gift cards, newspaper clippings, textiles, ephemera, handwritten notes, and miscellaneous typescripts documenting the life of Kenneth L. Wiederhold, a gay man from Michigan who became an active participant in the Los Angeles gay community from the 1970s through the 1990s. Most of the scrapbooks were compiled by Wiederhold himself, ranging from his early childhood in 1950's Michigan to his death from AIDS in 1995. Some scrapbooks, however, were compiled by a family member or friend after his death. The materials document such events as Wiederhold's time in the Researve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Michigan State University, vacations and gatherings, participation in gay organizations such as SAGA and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, and his wedding to Drew Staffen in 1994.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives0.4 linear foot (1 archival carton).The bulk of this collection contains correspondence, financial records and printed ephemera documenting the activities of Once In A Blue Moon Productions, a production company and women's collective located in Los Angeles, California. The materials document Blue Moon's activities and operations from 1977 to 1980. Information about musicians who collaborated with Blue Moon--Woody Simmons, Joanna Cazden, Willie Tyson, Julie James, and Alix Dobkin--is included in the form of typed biographies, clippings, and correspondence.Contact InformationFinding Aid
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives0.2 linear foot. [7 folders]Correspondence, sales reports, receipts, invoices, financial documents, distribution lists, advertiser account lists, clippings, and news releases documenting Bulletin , a gay publication in the 1980s and based in Long Beach, California, that appeared as a monthly magazine and bi-monthly tabloid format. Bulletin promoted itself as Southern California's "most discreet [...] positive, upbeat, fastest growing gay newsmagazine." Advertising lists document the paper's distribution throughout Southern California and as far east as Santa Fe, New Mexico.Contact InformationFinding Aid
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