Finding Aid for the Lesbian Visibility Week Records, 1990-1992
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Title: Lesbian Visibility Week Records
Date (inclusive): 1990-1992
Collection number: 1948
Creator:
West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility Committee, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center 1990-
Extent:
1 document box (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Lesbian Visibility Week is a week-long event devoted to raising awareness around lesbian issues and identities, raising the
profile of the lesbian community and celebrating. It is a combination of cultural programming, workshops addressing current
and impending needs, awards ceremonies and social events. It is co-sponsored by the West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility Committee
and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and is funded in part by the city of West Hollywood. This collection contains materials
pertaining to the planning and execution of Lesbian Visibility Week in West Hollywood, California for 1990 through 1992.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown. This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian
Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library.
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
[Identification of item], Lesbian Visibility Week Records (Collection Number 1948). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Lesbian Visibility Week is a week-long event devoted to raising awareness around lesbian issues and identities, raising the
profile of the lesbian community and celebrating. It is a combination of cultural programming, workshops addressing current
and impending needs, awards ceremonies and social events. It is cosponsored by the Lesbian Visibility Committee and the Los
Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and is funded in part by the city of West Hollywood. The West Hollywood Lesbian Visibility
Committee (WeHo LVC)was established in 1989 to bring awareness to lesbians living and loving in West Hollywood, California,
one of the largest lesbian communities in America. WeHo LVC endeavors to bring justice where injustices are being carried
out in the lesbian community and to act as a resource for women in need.
This collection includes correspondence, notes, promotional materials, display boards and photographs all centered around
the planning and execution of Lesbian Visibility Week in West Hollywood, California. The collection is dominated by materials
from 1990 although Lesbian Visibility Week continued to have a strong presence throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
Materials are arranged chronologically with undated materials at the end.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Lesbians --California --Los Angeles --Congresses.
Related material can be found in both the VIVA 1985-1995 Collection in the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA as well
as in the Lesbian Legacy Collection Subject Files ca. 1920-2008 at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC.
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1
Display Materials. 1990.
Physical Description: printed paper on foam core
Scope and Content Note
Printed signs pasted onto foam core for stability, these were used to highlight displays, direct participants and provoke
thought. Also included are small print outs displaying quotes from various literature and thinkers concerning lesbians.
Box 1, Folder 2
Double K Gallery Correspondence and Documentation. 1990.
Physical Description: printed paper, handwritten notes, foam core
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains all correspondence, financial information, artist statements and collection notes included in the planning
and execution of a gallery showing in 1990 as a part of Lesbian Visibility Week. The show included artists working across
many types of media.
Box 1, Folder 3
Box 1, Folder 4
West Hollywood Lesbian and Gay Advisory Committee Meeting Correspondence and Documentation. 1990.
Box 1, Folder 5
Box 1, Folder 6
Box 1, Folder 7
Box 1, Folder 8