TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Hotel Hyland protest | People protesting the eviction of 33 trans women from the Tenderloin's Hotel Hyland. |
1973 | |
Lou Sullivan in tuxedo | Lou Sullivan in his early twenties, dressed in a tuxedo for a Milwaukee drag ball. |
1973 | |
Purim Dance flier | A flier for a Purim dance at the SIR Center in San Francisco, presented by the organization Achvah and the Gay Freedom Day Committee. |
1973 | |
Animation/Bakersfield Gay Student Union | A tape from the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes (1999-52). Queer Blue Light was a gay activist video collective active in San Francisco in the 1970s. Daniel Smith was a member of the collective. The physical tape is labeled "Animation." It features a clip of animation and a Bakersfield Gay Student Union meeting.
In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | |
SF Gay Pride Week June 73 #4 Parade | Footage of the 1973 Gay Freedom Day Parade taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective. Features interviews with parade attendees, including several women who express concern about the lack of representation of women and lesbians in the parade.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | |
MCC Service San Francisco #1 Part 1 | Metropolitan Community Church service. A tape from the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection. Queer Blue Light was a gay activist video collective active in San Francisco in the 1970s. Daniel Smith was a member of the collective.
In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | Media/glbths_1999-52_018_am.avi |
MCC Service San Francisco #2 1973 | Metropolitan Community Church service. A tape from the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection. Queer Blue Light was a gay activist video collective active in San Francisco in the 1970s. Daniel Smith was a member of the collective.
In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | Media/glbths_1999-52_019_am.avi |
MCC San Francisco 1973 | Footage of a sermon at the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco and an interview with Reverend Jim Sandmire. This tape also includes footage of two men reading poetry.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | Media/glbths_1999-52_020_am.avi |
Bakersfield Edit 1 | Documentary about Bakersfield college students who are fighting for the formation of a Gay Student Union on the Bakersfield College campus. Includes interviews with people who are opposed to these efforts.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | Media/glbths_1999-52_021_am.avi |
Poetry reading and Bobby Seale campaign meeting | A tape from the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes (1999-52). Queer Blue Light was a gay activist video collective active in San Francisco in the 1970s. Daniel Smith was a member of the collective. Although the physical tape is labeled "Egypt 2," the tape primarily includes remnant recordings of a gay poetry reading and a campaign meeting for Bobby Seale's 1973 Oakland mayoral bid.
In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | |
Sign 504 Now Unchanged First Edit | Documentary about the four week long sit-in of disability rights protesters at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, made by Daniel Smith and the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | |
Three Gay Poets | Footage of poetry readings by three gay poets named Norman Lubowsky, Jon Franck, and Larry Seth Stewart. This tape originally aired on the KQED public access program Fury, Flesh and Love presents Queer Blue Light.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1973 | Media/glbths_1999-52_006_am.avi |
Sodomy Laws Retrospective (1 of 3) | A panel discussion that took place ten years after California's "sodomy laws" were repealed. Historian Alan Bérubé details California's history with anti-gay legislation, beginning with the state's first law against sodomy that was passed in 1850 and continuing through to the decriminalization of both sodomy and oral sex between consenting adults in private in 1976. Bérubé also discusses historical patterns relating to sex laws, and he contextualizes the debate between public versus private information. Activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, cofounders of the Daughters of Bilitis, discuss the history of legislation criminalizing lesbian sex, and they detail the creation of the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in the 1960s. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1986-01-30 | |
Sodomy Laws Retrospective (2 of 3) | A panel discussion that took place ten years after California's "sodomy laws" were repealed. Activist Phyllis Lyon discusses the Council on Religion and the Homosexual's Brief of Injustices. Politician Willie Brown, then the California State Assembly's Speaker of the Assembly, discusses the legislative side of the creation and passing of the 1976 Consenting Adult Sex Law, which decriminalized private and consensual gay sex. Activist Jim Foster, then a member of the San Francisco Health Commission, reflects on his experiences as an out gay man when gay sex was still criminalized, and he discusses ways in which the community organized in the 1950s and 1960s, including San Francisco's Tavern Guild and the Mattachine Society, to protect itself and ultimately decriminalize gay sex and relationships. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1986-01-30 | |
Sodomy Laws Retrospective (3 of 3) | A panel discussion that took place ten years after California's "sodomy laws" were repealed. Activist Jo Daly discusses instances of heterosexual individuals being convicted under anti-sodomy/anti-oral sex laws. Activist George Raya relates his experiences as a lobbyist in Sacramento in the 1970s who lobbied for the Consenting Adult Sex Law from 1974 until its passing in 1976. Leonard Graff, the legal director for the National Gay Rights Advocates, discusses the continuing fight against sodomy laws in the United States. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1986-01-30 |