Stanford University, Queer Student Resources, records, 1972-2019

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Summary

Creators:
Gay People's Union (Stanford, Calif.)., Gay Community of Concern., Stanford University. Stanford Women's Collective, Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford, Koskovich, Gerard, Stanford University. The Bridge, Whitman-Radclyffe Foundation, and Stanford University. LGBT Community Resources Center
Abstract:
Collection consists of the records of the Queer Student Resources, renamed in 2017, and its predecessors the LGBT Community Resources Center, the Gay People's Union (GPU), and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford (GLAS). Included are correspondence, memoranda, office files, reference files on service organizations in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, log books, notebooks, questionnaires, tape recordings, videos, photographs, posters, and ephemera pertaining to the gay, lesbian, and transgender community at Stanford and the surrounding communities.
Extent:
62 Linear Feet (18 cartons, 46 boxes, 6 half boxes, 5 flat boxes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Stanford University, Queer Student Resources, records (SC0252). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of the records of the LGBT Community Resources Center and its predecessors GLAS (Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford) and the Gay People's Union. Included are correspondence, memoranda, office files, reference files on service organizations in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, log books, notebooks, VECTOR magazine, questionnaires, tape recordings, videos, photographs, posters, and ephemera pertaining to the gay, lesbian, and transgender community at Stanford and the surrounding communities. Collection also includes the records of the Gay Community of Concern, 1974-1976, a local community group; records from the Women's Collective, 1974-85; and some materials concerning the Palo Alto School Board anti-discrimination policy, 1975. Tape recordings include "Gay Life Styles," 1975, and Leonard Matlovich speaking at Stanford, 1975.

Biographical / historical:

In 1971, a group of students, staff, and alumni came together to form the Gay People's Union at Stanford – one of the first LGBT campus organizations in America.

In 1984, Stanford Pride was established on an alumni group.

Queer Student Resources (as of 2017), formerly, LGBT Community Resources Center, is a student organization whose services include mentoring, diversity awareness, lecture series, support groups, workshops, and culture events. Programs represented in the records include the Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, BGLAD (Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Awareness Days), AIDS Education Project, and Queer Awareness Days (QuAD).

Acquisition information:
Administrative transfers, 1981-2019.
Arrangement:

The materials are arranged by accession.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Three boxes in the GPU/GLAS Records series are restricted in accordance with donor agreement. The files will remain closed until January 1, 2060 (75 years after last date of creation). Otherwise the collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred citation:

Stanford University, Queer Student Resources, records (SC0252). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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