[LGBTQ][Gay Activism][Drag] "Miss Jessie" photo archive chronicling 30 years in the life of San Diego drag performer and gay community activist Edward “Jesse” Taylor. The archive documents 30 years of Taylor’s life, as well as images from his 1987 title as Empress XVI in the California Imperial Court, and his.....

Boston lesbian and gay pride photo negative slides documenting public queer mobilization in Boston in 1980. The sequence shows how Boston Pride was staged in public space: speeches from a podium, crowds gathered in the park, identifiable groups under banners, and marchers moving into the street. Compiled by an attendee.....

Tangents Magazine issues published between 1966 and 1969 document the intellectual and organizational discourse of the homophile movement in the United States during the years immediately preceding gay liberation. Produced by members of the editorial community associated with ONE, Inc., one of the earliest American organizations devoted to the study.....

[LGBTQ] [Public Health] [African American] Various authors and photographers. AIDS crisis archive, 1988 to 1995 documents medical education, community response, and lived experience during the HIV AIDS epidemic across the United States, the United Kingdom, and sub Saharan Africa. The material provides direct evidence of how governments, advocacy organizations, and.....

[LGBTQ][San Francisco] San Francisco Pride parade photo archive, showing LGBTQ+ community visibility and public celebration in the early 1990s, a period when Pride events were both community celebrations and political demonstrations amid the ongoing AIDS crisis. The images capture participants and viewers of a San Francisco Pride parade, including leather.....

Various authors and issuers, group of LGBTQ+ publications, 1981–1987, documenting community organizing, political advocacy, and public health response during the early years of the AIDS crisis in the United States. The material operates in Cultural/Representational Mode, illustrating how LGBTQ+ communities articulated identity, protest, and survival strategies through print media, and.....

Various editors, Bay Area Reporter, 1973–1975, documenting LGBTQ+ political activism, community organization, and cultural life in San Francisco during the post-Stonewall period. The material operates in Cultural/Representational Mode, illustrating how one of the longest-running gay newspapers in the United States reported on emerging rights movements, internal community debates, and the.....

Archive of Gay Sunshine issues documenting systems of post-Stonewall gay liberation organizing, radical queer publishing, and underground LGBTQ cultural production during the 1970s. The material documents how activists, writers, and liberation collectives used independent print networks to coordinate political critique, circulate prisoner testimony, challenge police violence, and construct alternative queer.....

Archive of newsletters issued by the American Civil Liberties Union Gay Rights Chapter documenting LGBTQ legal advocacy, political organizing, and civil liberties activism in Southern California during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The newsletters record responses to discrimination, police harassment, legislative battles, and public policy disputes through committee reports.....

Baim, Tracy, ed. Outlines: The Voice of the Gay and Lesbian Community archive, 1988 to 1992, documents Chicago LGBTQ journalism during the AIDS crisis, the expansion of queer community media, and the intensification of legal, cultural, and political struggles over gay and lesbian public life. Tracy Baim co-founded Outlines in.....

[Social Activism] Broadside protesting the murder of 23 year old art student Timothy Lee in California in 1985. Timothy Lee was found hanging from a tree in Concord, California on November 2, 1985, shortly after two Black men, Tony Hall and Jeff Miller, were stabbed nearby by men in KKK.....

[LGBTQ] [Poster] 1990s art poster with text: "Every 10th Jesus is a Queer" by artist Eric Handel. Los Angeles: 1990. Measures 23" x 35". The image is in purple tones and the design is based on Sainte Famille (The Holy Family) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, originally painted in 1863. Handel is.....

[LGBTQ] 2 yearly Mattachine Society issues: 7th Annual Convention Program. September 1-5, 1960. San Francisco, California. First edition. 4 pages, 5.5" x 8.5." Schedule of events for the 1960 convention of the Mattachine Society held at the Bellavue Hotel . Plus the Mattachine Society program for the following year: 8th.....