TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Vanguard Street Sweep (1) | An image of the Vanguard Street Sweep protest, an action by the LGBTQ youth group Vanguard. The protest reclaimed the streets of the Tenderloin from police officers who would "sweep" for trans people, queer people, and sex workers. By physically sweeping the streets, Vanguard argued that Tenderloin residents should define what their community needed, and that what they needed was a clean and safe place to live, free of harassment. |
1966 | |
Blank survey | A survey intended to be distributed to youth with LGBTQ+ parents. |
1990 to 1999 | |
COLAGE newsletters and press releases | Newsletters and press releases from COLAGE. |
1994 to 1996 | |
COLAGE press releases | 1990 to 1999 | ||
Play produced by COLAGE members | The script and related materials for a play put on by members of COLAGE. |
1994 | |
Mailings and publicity materials (1) | Mailings and publicity materials from COLAGE. |
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Mailings and publicity materials (2) | Mailings and publicity materials from COLAGE. |
1993 to 1996 | |
Mailings and publicity materials (3) | Mailings, publicity materials, and creative materials (such as comics and a handbound book) produced by COLAGE. |
1995 | |
Newsletters and related materials | COLAGE newsletters, interviews and related materials, and the text of an amateur picture book about having lesbian and gay parents. |
1992 to 1996 | |
Media file | A file of press releases and contacts from COLAGE's media director. |
1995 | |
Crowd of people (1) | A crowd of people at an outdoor event, from the same roll of film as the Vanguard Street Sweep photographs. |
1966 | |
Crowd of people (2) | A crowd of people at an outdoor event, from the same roll of film as the Vanguard Street Sweep photographs. |
1966 | |
Three people with bench | Three people, possibly members of Vanguard, from the same roll of film as the 1966 Vanguard Street Sweep photographs. |
1966 | |
COLAGE (Children Of Lesbians And Gays Everywhere) 2001-04 | This collection contains records of the ancestry, emergence, and activities of the organization, COLAGE from 1982 to 2000. The bulk of the collection is from 1990 to 1996. The content of the collection focuses on the organization's newsletters, annual conferences, and advocacy work on issues related to custody and adoption rights of gay and lesbian parents. The collection includes newsletters, conference and other events papers, membership surveys, member manuscripts, issues papers including court case transcripts, and operational papers documenting the evolution of the organization. |
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Member questionnaires | Questionnaires with testimony from the children of queer parents, collected by COLAGE in support of the Virginia custody case of lesbian mother Sharon Bottoms. |
1993 | |
Marriage and adoption subject files | Subject files on marriage equality and adoption. |
1996 | |
Victoria Schneider with COYOTE sign | Victoria Schneider marches in a Pride parade with a sign for the sex workers' organization COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics). |
1999 | |
Schneider Victoria 2000-57 | Victoria Schneider is an activist and sex worker best known for her lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, concerning an unlawful strip search during her booking at the San Francisco County Jail. Schneider had been placed in the men’s cells, and had requested to be moved to the women’s; the search was ostensibly conducted to determine her gender. Born intersex and assigned male, Schneider identified strongly as a woman and had transitioned to live as such. Schneider won her lawsuit and was awarded $750,000 in damages from a federal jury. |
1993 to 1999 | |
COLAGE Kids Club Fun Pages (1) | The COLAGE Kids Club Fun Pages, an undated standalone publication. |
2000 | |
COLAGE Kids Club Fun Pages (2) | The COLAGE Kids Club Fun Pages, an undated standalone publication. |
2000 | |
COLAGE ephemera file | The complete ephemera file for COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere). |
1990 to 2010 | |
Brochures and communications | Brochures and communications materials from COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere). |
1990 to 1999 | |
Children at 1978 Pride | Children and others at 1978 San Francisco Pride. |
1978 | |
Felicia "Flames" Elizondo interview, part 1 | Susan Stryker interviews Felicia Elizondo, known as Felicia Flames, who was a sex worker, drag queen, and trans woman strongly associated with San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this section, Elizondo tells her life story; she was born in Texas and moved to San Francisco as a teenager, staying for much of her life, with the exception of an early period when she returned to Texas and joined the Army in an attempt to become straight and cisgender. She extensively describes the scene of sex workers and LGBTQ people who spent time at Compton's Cafeteria and the neighboring Chukker Club, as well as her transition, professional history, and the experience of sex work in the Tenderloin. Elizondo witnessed the 1960s cultural shift among gender-nonconforming sex workers in the Tenderloin, in which they ceased to present themselves as feminine men and embraced the identity of trans women. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens. |
2001 | |
Felicia "Flames" Elizondo interview, part 2 | Susan Stryker interviews Felicia Elizondo, known as Felicia Flames, who was a sex worker, drag queen, and trans woman living in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this section, Elizondo describes her transition as a patient of Dr. Harry Benjamin, including the medical and social aspects of the experience. During this time in the early 1970s, Elizondo left sex work and got a job as a telephone operator, transitioning on the job. At work, she felt generally accepted by her co-workers, but the experience was still isolating, patronizing, and difficult. Stryker also talks to Elizondo about the history of her evolving self-identification as the available categories changed, and about clubs, bars, and other hangouts where she formerly spent time. Finally, the camera records older photographs of Elizondo and companions. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens. |
2001 | |
Tamara Ching interview | Susan Stryker interviews Tamara Ching, a sex worker, trans woman, and native San Franciscan. Ching extensively discusses her experience of living and working in the Tenderloin, describing sex work as a source of lifelong validation and pride, despite the harassment and violence she endured as a young woman from police offers and clients. Stryker and Ching also talk about political and religious organizing in the Tenderloin. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens. |
2001 | |
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 | |
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 |