Finding aid of the Finding aid of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) Records
Processed by Sara Chabino-Lott; machine-readable finding aid created by Rebekah Kim
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
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San Francisco, California 94105
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Finding aid of the Finding aid of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) Records
Collection number: 2006-03
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
San Francisco, California
- Processed by:
- Sara Chabino-Lott
- Date Completed:
- August 2007
- Encoded by:
- Rebekah Kim
© 2007 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) Records
Dates: 1983-2006
Bulk Dates: 1989-2005
Collection number: 2006-03
Creator:
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Collection Size:
6 record cartons, 2 manuscript boxes, 2 medium boxes, 1 over sized box, and 1 jumbo box
13.42 linear feet
Contributing Institution:
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society
657 Mission Street
Suite 300
San Francisco, CA, 94105
(415) 777-5455
Abstract: This collection contains records documenting the activities of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) from 1983 through
2006. The bulk of the collection is from 1989-2005. The collection has a particular emphasis on SFAF's public policy and
advocacy work at the local, state and federal levels. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, news releases,
newsletters, and posters.
Physical location: Stored at the Archives of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society in San Francisco, California.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright to unpublished manuscript materials has been transferred to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], [Name of Series], San Francisco AIDS Foundation Records, 2006-03, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
Historical Society.
Acquisition Information
Donated to the Library by Mark Cloutier, Executive Director of SFAF in March of 2006.
Organizational History
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation is one of the largest and oldest community-based AIDS service organizations in the United
States. The mission of the Foundation is to end the AIDS pandemic and the human suffering caused by HIV. The Foundation is
a major resource center that educates the public about how to prevent the transmission of HIV, helps individuals make informed
choices about AIDS-related concerns and protects the human rights of those affected by HIV. The Foundation provides necessary
client services for residents of San Francisco who are affected by HIV, and assists other organizations achieve related goals.
In April 1982, a group of GLBT community leaders, activists and physicians, including Marcus Conant, M.D. and Cleve Jones,
founded the Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation (KS Foundation). Their goal was to educate the public about
the new illness that was reaching epidemic proportions in the gay community and causing fear among gay men. Initially, the
KS Foundation was a volunteer-operated, single telephone information and referral hotline located in a tiny back room at 520
Castro Street. By the fall of 1982 it had moved into a small suite at 512 Castro and was becoming nationally recognized for
its up-to-date information about AIDS. The KS Foundation obtained its first contracts for educational services with the San
Francisco Department of Public Health and the state of California in late 1982 and early 1983. In 1983, the KS Foundation
produced its first educational materials and held many community forums.
As its reputation grew, an attempt was made to expand the local KS Foundation into a national organization. It was reorganized
as the AIDS/KS Foundation, Inc., with Phil Conway as National Director. Chapters formed in Sacramento, Los Angeles and San
Francisco. Rick Crane served as Director of the San Francisco branch. When the national organization faltered, the three California
chapters split off. The San Francisco office, which expanded to 8 paid staff and moved to larger offices on 10th street in
October of 1983, served 1,500 individuals and answered nearly 6,500 calls in 1983.
That same year, a holiday food drive generated a new service, a food bank for people with AIDS (PWAs). Cary Norsworthy became
the Food Bank's first coordinator. A year later, Norsworthy and the Foundation's food bank organized a Thanksgiving Dinner
for PWAs at the Valencia Rose, a gay-owned cabaret. This became an annual event. In 1990, the Foundation partnered with Project
Open Hand to deliver food to people with AIDS. After a year of joint operation, in July 1991, Project Open Hand assumed sole
administration of the AIDS Food Bank.
The Foundation's Client Services Department was also founded in 1983. The Department provides health counseling, support groups,
housing, client advocacy and referrals to people with HIV/AIDS. Specially focused services exist, or have existed, for women,
people of color and non-English speakers. Steve Pratt, the first head of Client Services, started in 1983 and left the next
year. Tristano Palermino succeeded, him, serving from 1984 to1986. In 1984, the Department served over 500 people; by the
next year, its clientele had tripled. Hank Tavera headed Client Services from 1986 through 1989. He also served as co-chair
of the Third World AIDS Advisory Task Force during much of this same period. Michael Lee replaced Tavera as Client Services
Director in 1990, and Catherine Maier was coordinator of Women's Services during the late1980s and early 1990s.
In early 1984, the AIDS/KS Foundation became the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Jim Ferrels replaced Crane as director.
That same year, the Foundation's Education Department produced its first training video and safe sex poster and launched its
initial media campaign on AIDS awareness and prevention. The first head of the Foundation's Education Department was Mitch
Bart. Lyn Paleo replaced Bart and headed the department for a few years, along with long-time staff member, Chuck Frutchey.
In the early days of the Foundation, Paleo ran the state-funded Northern California Program (often referred to as NorCal).
Starting in 1984, she and her staff traveled throughout the region to give workshops and encourage the development of AIDS
services at the local level. As more local agencies opened, the need for the regional outreach diminished, and the NorCal
project ended in 1987. Paleo left the Foundatoin around 1988, and Frutchey was named Director of Education, a position he
retained until his retirement in 1994. Among all his other duties, Frutchey served as the unofficial historian of the Foundation.
He repeatedly rescued and protected Foundation materials; it is because of his diligence that many of the records in this
collection have survived.
In 1985, the growing Foundation moved to more spacious offices at 333 Valencia Street. That same year, Jim Ferrels resigned,
and Tim Wolfred replaced him as executive director. Wolfred managed the Foundation for five years, and the agency and its
programs grew rapidly. In 1987, needing more space, the Foundation's administrative offices moved again, to 25 Van Ness Avenue.
In 1988, as the epidemic began to spread at an alarming rate amongst people of color and women, the Foundation responded by
developing the Bilingual Multicultural Program and the Women's Services Program. These programs offered case management, benefits
counseling and support groups, among other services.
In 1989, a funding crisis resulted in extensive cutbacks in staff and programs. After guiding the Foundation through this
difficult financial period, Wolfred stepped down as executive director that same year. Pat Christen, who began as an assistant
in the education department and later moved up to Director of Public Policy, became the Foundation's fourth executive director.
In 1990 all the Foundation's programs were moved from Valencia Street to the Van Ness Avenue location in order to consolidate
services. The organization moved several more times in the Nineties to accommodate its growth and increase its efficiency.
By late 1995, the entire agency had relocated to 10 U.N. Plaza.
In 1994, the Foundation began its collaborations with the UC-San Francisco's AIDS Health Project and Shanti and started the
Housing Subsidy Program, which provided rental assistance to PWAs in the expensive San Francisco rental market. 1996 was a
busy year for the Foundation. The Treatment Education and Advocacy Department fought for fast-track approval and price reductions
of new HIV treatments; the Foundation's HIV Prevention Project, the largest needle exchange program in the country, exchanged
2,000 needles; and Foundation outreach workers distributed more than 600,000 condoms through community outreach.
In 1997, the Foundation started several new campaigns and services, including an HIV prevention/harm reduction program for
hundreds of homeless youth and one-on-one consultations regarding treatment regimens. The latter included social programs
for women and forums on how to manage complex new HIV treatment regimens. A year later, the organization created a HIV Services
and Treatment Support Department and developed a new prevention program called "Gay Life," which took a holistic approach
to prevention. This was the first program of its kind in the nation. The Foundation also moved to a new location on Market
Street and consolidated all of its programs and services.
In 2001, in an attempt to address the needs of the nearly 40 million people living with HIV worldwide, the Foundation created
an organization to address the global pandemic, the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. Over the next few years, the Pangaea Foundation
would collaborate with the William J. Clinton Foundation and several African governments to expand access and treatment to
care for people with HIV. In 2002, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation was forced to lay off staff to try to close a 2.5 million
budget gap. Despite these financial struggles, the Foundation staff ensured that client services remained operational.
In 2004, Executive Director Pat Christen resigned after 18 years of leadership. A year later, Mark Cloutier became the Foundation's
fifth executive director. In 2006, in response to the rising use of crystal meth, the Foundation implemented another innovative
harm reduction program, the peer-based Speed Project.
The Foundation continues to educate the public about HIV/AIDS. It has used three main strategies to promote education. The
first, the AIDS Hotline, was a de facto operation from the day the telephone was connected in the Castro office in 1983. Over
the years, its services have been used by hundreds of thousands of callers (in 1992 alone, the hotline answered over 100,000
calls, a remarkable feat for a completely volunteer-staffed service). In addition to English, the hotline offers services
in Spanish and Tagalog.
The second strategy employed by the Education Department is community outreach through forums, workshops and other events.
The third strategy uses individual educational campaigns that highligh a particular message or target a specific group. In
addition to targeting specific groups, such as intravenous drug users, young gay men or African American women, the Foundation
also uses educational and media campaigns designed to dispel the myth that AIDS only strikes white gay men.
The Foundation's educational outreach materials have included safe sex posters, pamphlets, videotapes and a coloring book.
The Education Department has also sponsored two publications. The first, Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS (BETA),
a technical journal focused on AIDS treatments, premiered in 1988. As of 2006, BETA was still an important source of information
on new treatments and therapies for HIV disease. The second publication, Positive News, a general educational newsletter,
debuted in English, Spanish, Filipino (Tagalog) and Chinese in 1991.
Other important offices at the Foundation include Media Services and Public Policy. The former was eventually subsumed under
the latter, which serves as the advocacy arm of the Foundation. It performs research and development for the local, state,
and federal government and private sectors, lobbies legislative bodies, fights discrimination against HIV positive people,
holds forums, issues press releases and responds to media requests.
This organizational history was largely taken from two sources: the Finding Aid to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF)
Records, 1982-1995, MSS 94-60 at the University of California, San Francisco, and "25 Years of an Epidemic: Milestones in
the Battle Against Aids," accessed through the Online Archive of California and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's website,
August 18, 2007.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains material documenting the activities of SFAF from 1983-2006. The majority of the records in the collection
document the work of SFAF as an advocate for people with HIV/AIDS. Types of materials in the collection include correspondence,
news releases, event programs, clippings, newsletters, research reports, and photographs.
The second largest bulk of material in the collection is related to advocacy. Material includes records related to efforts
to establish a sanctioned needle exchange program in San Francisco, as well as a large group of position statement letters
to politicians stating SFAF's support or opposition to proposed legislation on a wide range of HIV-related issues. Also documented
are SFAF efforts to provide national and local reporters with expert information about HIV-related issues through their Media
Relations department.
A large portion of the collection is made up of newsletters created by most of the major departments of SFAF, including an
all staff newsletter. However, most of the newsletters in this collection are incomplete runs. Since publication of the
smaller newsletters was sometimes irregular, it is unclear when some might have actually started or stopped. The largest
part of the collection is comprised of published and unpublished monographs created by most of the major departments of SFAF.
Also included are research papers written by individuals outside of SFAF. Particular monographs of interest are early SFAF
brochures.
Material related to SFAF's Education Department is relatively small. However, SFAF's goal to reach at risk groups and its
use of focus groups to refine campaigns is documented. There are also images from some campaigns. Material related to the
administration of SFAF is also relatively small, but the collection does include some financial records and a small amount
of correspondence from early executive directors, including Rick Crane.
The collection includes a large number of photographs taken by young gay and bisexual men in San Francisco in 1995 for a publication
called sumt'n ta say/behind our backs. Most of the photographers are identified, although their subjects are not. All photographs
submitted, not just those used in the final publication, are in the collection. There are also photographs from ad campaigns
and other events. The collection includes all of the negatives to the sumt'n ta say/behind our backs photographs. One item
of note is a set of negatives from a Rubber Men event in the 1980s. The collection includes slides and posters that have
not been identified.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 10 series:
- Series 1. Advocacy
- Series 2. Media Relations
- Series 3. Newsletters
- Series 4. Monographs
- Series 5. Education
- Series 6. Administration
- Series 7. Photographs
- Series 8. Negatives
- Series 9. Slides
- Series 10. Posters
- Series 11. Miscellaneous
Unless otherwise noted in the series and subseries descriptions, the arrangement of the collection was imposed during processing.
Dates are inclusive.
Indexing Terms
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
AIDS (Disease) Prevention
AIDS (Disease) California San Francisco
AIDS (Disease) Government policy United States
Community Foundations
Related Material
Shanti Records, 2006-06, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, San Francisco, California
San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) Records, MSS 94-60, UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special
Collections, University of California, San Francisco
Collection Contents
Series 1
Advocacy
1987-2001
Physical Description: 62 folders
Series Description
This series documents SFAF's advocacy efforts at all levels of government to influence change in HIV-related public policy.
Types of material in this series include proposed legislation, research reports, correspondence and conference manuals.
Subseries 1.1, Needle Exchange Program
1989-1999
Series Description
This subseries contains records related to early efforts to develop, design and help implement needle exchange as part of
a community-based, comprehensive program of HIV prevention for intravenous drug users. The bulk of the records were created
by the Needle Exchange Community Task Force (NECTF), which began meeting in March of 1989. Ken Jones (policy and communications
associate, 1989-1990-?) was the representative from SFAF on the NECTF. Folders 3-9 of this subseries were maintained by
Jones and provide a wealth of information on the earliest efforts to establish a sanctioned needle exchange program in San
Francisco. These folders have been left in their original order. Equally represented throughout this subseries is SFAF's
involvement in revising needle exchange legislation at the local, state and federal levels. Included in this subseries are
records created by and about Prevention Point, San Francisco's unsanctioned needle exchange program. These include invitations
to "The Golden Bleachies," a benefit for Prevention Point, and a copy of the keynote speech given by Senator Diane Watson.
In 1993 SFAF began its HIV Prevention Project providing street-based needle exchange services to injection drug users as
a method of combating the spread of HIV infection, and staffed by volunteers from Prevention Point. This subseries also
contains a large amount of research prepared by an outside group on federal needle exchange issues, a large amount of information
on needle exchange programs outside of San Francisco, NECTF meeting minutes, and proposed legislation. One item of note is
a copy of Mayor Art Agnos's "Mayor's HIV Task Force on Clean Needle Exchange" with letters of endorsement, from 1989. This
subseries is arranged chronologically.
Box 1: 1 - 7
"Needle Exchange Community Task Force"
1989-1990
Box 1: 8 - 9
Assembly Bill 2525 and Senate Bill 1418
1989-1992
Box 1: 10
Miscellaneous needle exchange documents
1989-1992
Box 1: 11 - 12
"Policy and program development" (binder)
1989
Box 1: 13
"Needle Exchange Community Task Force, subcommittees"
1989
Box 1: 14
Needle exchange editorial campaign
1990-1992
Box 1: 15
Other needle exchange programs, research
circa 1990
Box 1: 16
California law re needle/syringe exchange
1991
Box 1: 17 - 18
Assembly Bill 2525 and Senate Bill 1418
1992
Box 1: 19
Assembly Bill 2525 and Senate Bill 1418, supporters
1992
Box 1: 21 - 27
Research prepared for SFAF by the Sheridan Group
1997
Box 1: 28
Assembly Bill 136 information packet
1999
Subseries 1.2 Position Statements
1990-2001
Series Description
This subseries documents SFAF's local, state, and federal public policy initiatives. It is evidence of SFAF's advocacy efforts
to secure funding for HIV care, treatment, housing, prevention and research programs, broadened access to medical care, and
to protecting the rights of people living with HIV. This subseries primarily contains letters in support or opposition to
legislative issues. Included are letters to senators, assembly members, organizations, boards of trustees, governors of California,
and Presidents of the United States. Also included are news releases and other correspondence related to the issues and some
background material, such as research reports and newspaper clippings. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by topic.
Topics were imposed during processing.
Box 1: 31
Community planning
1994-1995
Box 1: 33
Elders, Jocelyn-firing
circa 1994
Box 1: 34
Funding/Reauthorization of Ryan White CARE Act
1993-2000
Box 1: 35
HIV surveillance and reporting
1997
Box 1: 36
HIV testing and reporting
1990-2000
Box 1: 37
Immigrants and HIV
1994-1995
Box 1: 38
Insurance, health
1990-2000
Box 1: 39
Insurance, life
1996-1997
Box 1: 40
Medicaid/Medi-Cal
1995-1998
Box 1: 41
Needle exchange
1992-1997
Box 1: 43
Prisoners with AIDS
1995-1997
Box 1: 46
Social services
1995-1996
Box 1: 50
Worker's rights
1997-2000
Subseries 1.3 General Advocacy
1987-2001
Series Description
This subseries contains miscellaneous records that reflect SFAF's advocacy efforts. This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Box 2: 1
Client Services benefit information
1987-1991
Box 2: 2
Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990 (copy)
1990
Box 9
HIV Monthly National Radio Broadcast-"Privacy and HIV" (cassette tape)
July 5, 1992
Box 2: 3
Minutes: public policy roundtable
1993
Box 2: 4 - 5
Vote to end AIDS: The Northern California races, SFAF (Binder)
1996
Box 2: 6 - 7
Grassroots Advocacy Conference, SFAF (Binder)
1998
Box 2: 8
Policy Position Paper: Ryan White Care Act reauthorization, Cities Advocating Emergency Relief Coalition
1999
Box 2: 9
HIV Advocacy Network Conference, SFAF
2000
Box 2: 10
Policy recommendations to Governor Gray Davis, SFAF
2001
Box 2: 11
Policy recommendations to President Bush, SFAF
2001
Box 2: 12
AIDS discrimination reporting project, blank questionnaire
undated
Series 2
Media Relations
1986-2002
Physical Description: 32 folders
Series Description
This series has been maintained in its original order. This series documents SFAF's Media Relations department. Media
Relations worked to ensure accurate coverage of HIV issues in the media and to disseminate complete, clear and correct HIV
information. The media relations staff worked with local and national reporters to provide the media with a diversity of
expert opinion about HIV-related issues. This series primarily contains information related to the unveiling of educational
ad campaigns and fundraising events, however, some HIV-related issues are represented. The most comprehensively documented
campaign in this series is "Be here for the Cure II" featuring the photography of Annie Liebowitz. Items of note include
planning documents and biographies of the individuals featured in the campaign. Also see information related to ad campaigns
in the Photography and Education series. Types of material in this series primarily include press releases, but also include
talking points, radio public service announcements, some promotional material, campaign descriptions/overviews, clippings
and correspondence. This series is arranged chronologically.
Box 2: 14
"You can't see AIDS. Use condoms"
1987
Box 2: 16
"Sex is Good" [US Marines v. SFAF]
1992
Box 2: 17
"Be here for the Cure" I
1992
Box 2: 18-19
"Be here for the Cure II"
1992-1993
Box 2: 20
"Policy: CA Bay Area" [needle exchange]
1992-1994
Box 2: 21
"Sex club and bathhouse educator's network"
1993-1994
Box 2: 22
AIDS Dance-a-Thon
1993-1997
Box 2: 24
Classical Action media coverage
1994-1995
Box 2: 27
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs"
1995
Box 2: 28
"Condom Mirandas"
1996-1997
Box 2: 29
AIDS Walk San Francisco 1996
1996
Box 2: 30
AIDS Walk San Francisco 1996, clippings
1996
Box 2: 31
California AIDS Ride 3
1996
Box 2: 32
Leadership recognition dinner
1996
Box 2: 33
"Black Brothers Esteem"
1997-1998
Box 2: 34
"HIV Prevention Project, studies"
1997-1999
Box 2: 36
"Bartlett fashion presentation
1997
Box 2: 37
AIDS Walk San Francisco 1997
1997
Box 2: 38
California AIDS Ride 4
1997
Box 2: 40
California AIDS Ride 6: executive book
1999
Box 2: 41
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2000
2000
Box 2: 42
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2001
2001
Box 2: 43
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2001, clippings
2001
Box 2: 44
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2002
2002
Series 3
Newsletters
1983-2005
Physical Description: 50 folders
Series Description
This series contains newsletters created by various departments of SFAF throughout its history. The most comprehensive runs
of newsletters are BETA and Positive News (English version) in the Education subseries. Of particular interest to researchers
might be the very early newsletters in the General News and Publicity subseries.
Subseries 3.1 General News and Publicity
1983-2005
Series Description
This subseries contains the earliest newsletter in the collection from the period when SFAF was still the AIDS/KS Foundation,
Inc. Although not complete runs, they do provide valuable information about the climate at the time. This subseries is arranged
alphabetically.
Box 3: 1 - 2
Advance: The Monthly Bulleting of SFAF
Dec. 1990-July 1992
Box 10
AIDS and KS Foundation Newsletter
May 1983-June 1983
Box 3: 3
Can WeTalk? (1 issue)
Feb. 1984
Box 10
OUTReach: News you can Use to Fight HIV/AIDS
Apr. 1997-Oct. 2005
Box 10
Report to the Community
Dec. 1983
Dec. 1984
Subseries 3.2, Board of Directors
1985-1998
Series Description
The newsletters in this subseries were targeted at major donors. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 3: 4 - 5
Impetus (later called SFAF News)
Summer 1986-Winter 1993
Box 3: 6 - 7
SFAF News (formerly Impetus)
Fall 1995-Summer 1998
Subseries 3.3, Education
1988-2005
Series Description
This subseries documents SFAF's mission to create non-duplicative educational material. It also represents SFAF's outreach
through its publication of Positive News in four languages. The newsletters in this subsereis primarily deal with HIV-health
information. BETA is a technical/academic newsletter and Positive News is written for low literacy readers. This subseries
is arranged alphabetically.
Box 3: 8
AIDS Educator Catalog
Fall 1988
Box 3: 9 - 25
BETA Bulletin of Experimental Treatment for AIDS
1988-2005
Box 3: 26 - 39
BETA en Espanol
1992-2005
Box 3: 40
BETA Headline Treatment News
1993-1998
Box 4: 1
Monthly Listing of AIDS-Related Educational Events (1 issue)
Nov. 1988
Box 10:
Noticias Positivas [Positive News in Spanish]
Spring 1991-July 1999
Box 4: 2
Positive News
Spring 1991-Fall 1993
Box 10:
Positive News
Dec. 1998-July 1999
Box 4: 3
Positive News [in Chinese]
1991-1993
Box 10:
Positively Pinoy [Positive News in Tagalog]
1994
Box 4: 4
Treatment Information
undated
Subseries 3.4, People with AIDS Outreach
1986-1987
Series Description
The newsletter in this subseries was a joint project with Shanti Project. It has an informal, upbeat style and provided information
on workshops, taxes, social events, a classifieds section and other information for people with AIDS. This subseries is arranged
alphabetically.
Box 4: 5
People with AIDS Update
Feb. 1986-May 1987
Subseries 3.5, Public Policy
1994-1998
Series Description
This subseries contains monthly newsletters focused on key HIV policy issues such as legislation and funding, state and federal
HIV prevention reform efforts, the status of various federal health care reform initiatives, and specific information on how
to get involved in advocacy efforts. Also included with some issues are background articles and clippings pertaining to topics
in that issue. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 4: 6 - 7
HIV Policy Watch
June 1994-Feb. 1998
Box 4: 8
San Francisco HIV Policy Watch
July 1996-July 1998
Subseries 3.6 Staff
1996-1999
Series Description
This subsereis contains an all staff newsletter that was created to increase communication, and keep morale high. The focus
of the newsletter is the staff. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 4: 9
The Loop
Oct. 1996-Feb. 1999
Subseries 3.7, Other Organization's
1985-1999
Series Description
This subseries contains newsletters published by individuals and organizations other than SFAF that were found in the collection.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 4: 10
AIDS Treatment News, John S. James (1issue)
Jan. 13, 1989
Box 10:
Coming UP! The Lesbian/Gay Community Calendar of Events and Newspaper for the Bay Area (1 issue)
Dec. 1985
Box 4: 11
Mansex 101, Stop AIDS Project
Spring 1999
Series 4
Monographs
1984-2006
Physical Description: 90 folders
Series Description
This series contains monographs primarily created by various departments of SFAF. Included are research reports, papers,
programs, brochures, and books.
Subseries 4.1 Board of Directors
1985-2004
Series Description
This subseries provides general information about the activities and structure of SFAF. Through these, one can see the
emergence, decline and merger of various departments. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 4: 12 - 21
Annual Report/Year in Review
1985-2004
Subseries 4.2, Client Services
1984-2001
Series Description
This subseries contains booklets and guides produced to help AIDS and ARC patients, friends, family and care-givers locate
the proper medical, financial and emotional resources. They contain San Francisco resource listings in English and Spanish.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 4: 22
AIDS and ARC: A Resource Manual
1988
Box 4: 24
Client Services Handbook
1997
Box 4: 26
The Family's Guide to AIDS
1984
Box 4: 27 - 31
HIV Resource Guide (title varies)
1988-1998
Box 4: 32
HIV Resource Guide (English and Spanish)
1997-1998
Box 4: 33
Manual de Ayuda al Cliente
1997
Box 4: 34 - 35
VIH: Guia de Recursos (title varies)
1995-2001
Subseries 4.3, Development
1991-2006
Series Description
This subseries primarily contains programs and event guides from SFAF fundraisers. Perhaps the most valuable sources of information
in this subseries are programs from SFAF's annual Leadership Recognition Dinner. These could potentially be important because
they contain lists of SFAF boards of directors, donors, corporate and foundation partners, previous honorees, some histories
of the organization, and biographies of individual and corporate awardees. One item of note is the 1996 Leadership Recognition
Dinner program, which contains a copy of the speech given that year by Executive Director Pat Christensen. This subseries
is arranged alphabetically.
Box 4: 36
AIDS Walk/Marathon Mailings
2000-2005
Box 4: 37 - 43
AIDS Walk San Francisco Event Guide
1994-2002
Box 10
AIDS Walk San Francisco Event Guide
2003-2006
Box 4: 44
California AIDS Ride 4
1997
Box 4: 45
California AIDS Ride 4 Rider Portfolio Packet
1997
Box 4: 46
Classical Action (title varies)
1995-1998
Box 5: 1
Leadership Recognition Dinner (invitation)
1991
Box 5: 2 - 16
Leadership Recognition Dinner
1992-2006
Suberies 4.4, Education
1986-2000
Series Description
This subseries contains internal education reports as well as monographs produced for distribution. One item of note is "sumt'n
ta say/behind our backs" a resource guide to safe sex practices for young (18-24) gay and bisexual men containing poetry and
photographs by young gay and bisexual men. See the Photography series for all of the photographs submitted for acceptance
to "sumt'n ta say/behind our backs". This series is arranged alphabetically.
Box 5: 17
BETA Readership Survey
1994
Box 5: 18
Catalog of Educational Materials
1986
Box 5: 19
An Epidemic of Loss: AIDS in San Francisco's Gay Male Community 1988-1993
1987
Box 10:
The New Epidemic (4 part series in BAR)
2000
Box 5: 20
Primal Cream: An advanced Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Health
1993
Box 5: 21
Positive News: An Evaluation of Readability, Content and Usefulness in English, Spanish, Tagalog and
Chinese
1994
Box 5: 22
Results from the 1994 BETA Readership Study
1994
Box 5: 23
sumt'n ta say/behind our backs [for young gay and bi men]
1995
Subseries 4.5, Public Policy
1996-2000
Series Description
This subseries contains material created to inform and guide a grassroots network of individuals and organizations to advocate
at all levels of governement for effective HIV-related public policy. Also included are policy agendas for CA and the nation,
and a legislative report card for 1999. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 5: 24
Advocacy in an new Era: A Resource Manual for HIV/AIDS Advocates in a Time of Change and Hope
1997
Box 5: 25
Advocacy in a new Era: Access to Treatment, Medicaid, ADAP and CARE
1997
Box 5: 26
Every Voice Counts: A Grassroots Advocacy Manual for the HIV/AIDS Community
2001
Box 5: 27
Giving Life a Home: HOPWA at work in San Francisco A Report on the Implementation of the Housing Opportunities for
People with AIDS Program in San Francisco, California
1997
Box 5: 29
Grassroots Lobbying: A Guide for Advocates Concerned with HIV/AIDS
undated
Box 5: 30
Grassroots Lobbying: A Guide for Advocates Concerned with HIV/AIDS [larger version]
undated
Box 5: 31 - 32
Grassroots Lobbying: A Guide for Citizens Concerned with HIV/AIDS
undated
Box 5: 33
HIV/AIDS and Immigrants: A Manual for Service Providers
2004
Box 5: 34
La Movilizacion Politica Popular
1997
Box 5: 35
A New Era for HIV/AIDS Care, Treatment and Services: An Agenda for California Government 1997-1998
1997
Box 5: 36
Making the Grade: The Legislative Report Card on HIV/AIDS
1999
Box 5: 37
New Hopes, New Challenges: An HIV/AIDS Policy Agenda for San Francisco
1998
Box 5: 38
One Voice can Make a Difference...Many Voices can Create A Movement: A Grassroots Advocacy and Community Organizing
Manual for the HIV/AIDS Community
2000
Box 5: 39
Renewing the Commitment: An HIV/AIDS Policy Agenda for the Nation
1998
Box 5: 40
Toward 2000: An HIV/AIDS Policy Agenda for California
1999
Subseries 4.6, Volunteer Services
1992-1994
Box 5: 41
SFAF Staff Manual: Working with Volunteers
1994
Box 5: 42
Staff and Volunteer Yearbook
1992
Subseries 4.7, Created Outside SFAF
1986-2004
Series Description
This subseries primarily contains research reports. There are some general monographs. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Box 5: 43
Clinical and Legal Perspectives on Prenatal Drug and Alcohol Use: Guidelines for Individual and Community Response,
Marty Jessup and Robert Roth
1986
Box 5: 44
Management and Organizational Needs Assessment Study of U.S. AIDS Agencies, Prepared for the National AIDS
Network
1987
Box 5: 45
Presentation to the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic. Panel 10: Outreach Education
to Intravenous Drug Users, Harvey W. Feldman
1987
Box 5: 46
Preventing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Contagion Among Intravenous Drug Users: The Impact of Street-Based Education
on Risk-Behavior. Paper read before the III International Conference on AIDS, John K. Watters
1987
Box 5: 47
Comprehensive Plan to Reduce the Spread of HIV Infection Among Injection Drug Users (IDUs) in the City and County of
San Francisco, Raymond Baxter
1992
Box 5: 48
Meanings, Complexities, and Condoms: Towards Understanding the Sexual Landscape of Middle-class Gay Men in San
Francisco, A.M. Williams
circa 1994
Box 5: 49
Questions at the Crossroads: Surviving the Third Decade of HIV Infection in California, AIDS Partnership
California
2004
Box 5: 50
Sex, Drugs and HIV: A Sociocultural Analysis of two Groups of Gay and Bisexual Male Substance Users who Practice
Unprotected Anal Sex, A.M. Williams
circa 1996
Box 5: 51
Stand up to be Counted: A Great City Must Respond to AIDS, [The Tides Foundation]
undated
Box 5: 52
Voices of C.A.R.E.: People Living with HIV and AIDS and the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act,
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, et. al
2000
Subseries 4.8, Brochures
1983-2004
Series Description
This series contains educational and informational brochures primarily put out by SFAF, many of which were available for purchase
by other AIDS organizations. Of particular interest to researchers might be the very early brochures. This suberies is arranged
chronologically by SFAF brochures, followed by brochures of other organizations.
Box 5: 53
Brochures, SFAF
1983-1988
Box 5: 54
Brochures, SFAF
1991-2004
Box 5: 55
Brochures, other organizations
1987-1989
undated
Series 5
Education
1986-2005
Physical Description: 20 folders
Series Description
This series documents some of the education outreach activities of SFAF. The most heavily represented activity is the
development of educational ad campaigns.
Box 11 folders
Subseries 5.1, Targeted Groups
1987-2005
Series Description
This subseries documents some of SFAF's efforts to identify at risk groups and develop educational campaigns and support
programs that directly targeted and reflected the needs of these groups. This subseries illustrates their use of focus groups
to develop and refine campaigns. One item of interest is a paper on the emergence of a gay identity in Latin America in
the
"Latino AIDS response" folder. Articles on cleaning hypodermic needles with bleach are also included. Types of materials
include clippings, articles, handwritten notes, and correspondence. This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Box 6: 1
"MidCity Consortium to Combat AIDS" [intravenous drug users]
1987-1988
Box 6: 2
Campaign for black gay men
1988
Box 6: 3
"Latino AIDS response"
1988
undated
Box 6: 4
"Latino AIDS Project" re. poster
1990
Box 6: 5
Focus group report re. Compass Project
1996
Box 6: 6
Focus group transcript re. Females
1997
Box 6: 8 - 9
Black Brothers Esteem Leadership Institute (binder)
2000
Box 6: 10
Black Brothers Esteem
2002-2005
Subseries 5.2, Campaigns
1986-2003
Series Description
This series contians records documenting SFAF's educational campaigns. Included are images from campaigns, community program
ideas, poster ideas and a video tape of commercials. This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Box 6: 11
"AIDS: Fight the Fear with the Facts"
1986
Box 9
HIV Prevention Series VHS (8 x :30 spots)
circa 1990
Box 6: 12
Castro Street Fair Ideas
1994
Box 6: 13
Poster ideas
1996
undated
Box 6: 15
"Speed Project"
circa 2003
Box 6: 17
Castro Stop AIDS campaign ads
undated
Box 6: 18
"Without a Condom You're a Dickhead" (foreign language)
undated
Subseries 5.3, Additional Education Documents
1995-1998
Series Description
This subseries contains miscellaneous education documents. This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Box 6: 19
List of events videos, SFAF (handwritten)
circa 1995
Box 6: 20
Website project, SFAF
1995-1998
Box 6: 21
Web/Internet general information
1996-1997
Series 6
Administration
1984-2005
Physical Description: 7 folders
Series Description
This series contains a limited amount of financial records and a small amount of correspondence from executive directors.
Items of note are the strategic plan and operating budget records because they contain organizational charts of SFAF, although
the date range is limited. Also of note in this series is a draft of an opinion editorial piece written by Derek Gordon about
hate crimes directed at SFAF and executive director Pat Christensen. This series is arranged chronologically.
Box 6: 22
Correspondence from Executive Directors
1984-1985
1989 fix
Box 6: 23
General histories of SFAF
1989-2001
Box 6: 24
Strategic plan and operating budget
1989
1999-2005
Box 6: 25
Miscellaneous development/fundraising
1989-2003
Box 6: 27
Draft of opinion editorial piece to B.A.R.
circa 1997
Box 6: 28
Report of audit of financial records
2001-2005
Series 7
Photographs
1986-2005
Physical Description: 32 folders
Series Description
The majority of the photographs in this series are from sumt'n ta say/behind our backs. Items of note include photographs
from Black Brothers Esteem. This series is arranged chronologically. Within sumt'n ta say/behind our backs folders are arranged
alphabetically by photographer.
Box: Folder 10
"AIDS: Fight the Fear with the Facts"
1986
Box 7: 1
"You Can't See Aids"
1987
Box 7: 4
"Be Here for the Cure" I
1992
Box 7: 6
"Be Here for the Cure II"
1993
Box 7: 8
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Mark Bridges
1995
Box 7: 9
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Carlos Garcia
1995
Box 7: 10
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Noe Gutierrez
1995
Box 7: 11
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Louis Guzman
1995
Box 7: 12
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Morgan Kirby
1995
Box 7: 13
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Derek Lassiter
1995
Box 7: 14
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Erickson Liongsam
1995
Box 7: 15
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Doug Natner (sp?)
1995
Box 7: 16
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Hoang Nguyen
1995
Box 7: 17
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Carlos Penate
1995
Box 7: 18
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Richard Renfro
1995
Box 7: 19
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Michael Smith
1995
Box 7: 20
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" Jaime Soria
1995
Box 7: 21
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" unknown
1995
Box 7: 22
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" extra contact sheets
1995
Box 7: 23-26
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" prints used
1995
Box 8 1
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" prints not used
1995
Box 8 2
Black Brothers Esteem
1998
Box 8 3
Black Brothers Esteem
2005
Box 8 4-5
[by Leslie Hirsch]
undated
Box 8 6
unidentified male
undated
Series 8
Negatives
circa 1980s-1995
Physical Description: 7 folders
Series Description
This series primarily contains negatives from submissions to sumt'n ta say/behind our backs. Other items of note include
negatives from a Rubber Men event and some negatives from AIDS LifeCycle. This series is arranged chronologically.
Box 8 8
Unidentified party
circa 1980s
Box 8 9
"Be Here for the Cure II"
1992
Box 8 10
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" to box 7 folder 23
1995
Box: Folder 6
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" to box 7 folders 8-20
1995
Box 8 11
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" to prints not used
1995
Box 8 12
"sumt'n ta say/behind our backs" miscellaneous
1995
Series 9
Slides
circa 1983-circa 2000
Physical Description: 1,644 slides
Series Description
This series has not been arranged.
Box 9
Unidentified
circa 1983-circa 2000
Series 10
Posters
circa 1980s-circa 2005
Physical Description: 1 box
Series Description
This series contains approximately 15 small to oversize posters from various campaigns including "Be Here for the Cure II"
and Black Brothers Esteem. Also included are approximately 7 framed items including brochures and photographs. One item
of note is a foam core bleachman poster. This series has not been arranged.
Box: Folder 10
Unidentified
circa 1980s-circa 2005
Series 11
Miscellaneous
1997-2006
Physical Description: 3 folders
Series Description
This series contains miscellaneous records related to cycling. This series is arranged chronologically.
Box 6: 29
"The Unknown Cyclist" a screenplay
1997
Box 6: 30
Collected works of cheerleader Scott, AIDS LifeCycle
2006
Box 6: 31
AIDS Ride speech
circa 1980s
