The Pre-Stonewall LGBTQ Memory Project

FAIN: PW-253801-17

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90089-0012)
Joseph R. Hawkins (Project Director: July 2016 to January 2022)
Loni A. Shibuyama (Co Project Director: September 2019 to January 2022)

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries will digitize for free online public access 87,200 pages of records from the Mattachine Society and ONE Inc. that reveal hidden facets of LGBTQ American life during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Associated Products

Society of California Archivists 2019 conference, LGBTQ presentation (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Society of California Archivists 2019 conference, LGBTQ presentation
Author: Loni Shibuyama
Abstract: In April 2019, project Co-PI Loni Shibuyama organized a panel discussion entitled "Putting It Out There: Engaging Communities and Enhancing Access to LGBTQ Collections" at the Society of California Archivists' conference in Long Beach, CA. Ms. Shibuyama's presentation focused on the lessons learned so far in the Cold War Queer digitization project and how ONE Archives continues to negotiate its access strategies with the evolving nature of its communities and audiences.
Date: 04/25/2019
Primary URL: https://agm2019.sched.com/event/KEkc/s07-putting-it-out-there-engaging-communities-and-enhancing-access-to-lgbtq-collections
Conference Name: Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting 2019

Society of California Archivists newsletter (Article)
Title: Society of California Archivists newsletter
Author: Loni Shibuyama
Abstract: The ONE Archives at the USC Libraries is excited to share the news that collections from two of the earliest gay and lesbian organizations in the United States, ONE Incorporated and Mattachine Society, are now accessible through the USC Digital Library. Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), thousands of administrative records and correspondence files from these collections are now digitized and available online. Materials digitized through this project shed light on the earliest years of the LGBTQ rights movement, known as the homophile era--the period roughly between World War II and the 1969 Stonewall uprisings when gay and lesbian groups formed to foster communities celebrating homosexual love (phile). In the United States, the earliest homophile organizations were all founded in California: the Mattachine Society, ONE Incorporated, and the Daughters of Bilitis. These were the first gay and lesbian organizations with a national reach, and they advocated for LGBTQ civil rights and social equality at a time when gay, lesbian, and gender nonconforming Americans were excluded from public life and faced myriad forms of discrimination, as well as frequent, organized campaigns of police harassment.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: http://https://calarchivists.org/resources/Documents/Newsletter/2021%20Summer.pdf
Primary URL Description: https://calarchivists.org/resources/Documents/Newsletter/2021%20Summer.pdf
Access Model: open access
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Society of California Archivists Newsletter
Publisher: Society of California Archivists

ONE Archives at the USC Libraries website blog post (Blog Post)
Title: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries website blog post
Author: Loni Shibuyama
Abstract: The ONE Archives at the USC Libraries is excited to share the news that collections from two of the earliest gay and lesbian organizations in the United States, ONE Incorporated and Mattachine Society, are now accessible through the USC Digital Library. Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), thousands of administrative records and correspondence files from these collections are now digitized and available online. Materials digitized through this project shed light on the pre-Stonewall years of the LGBTQ rights movement. In the United States, the earliest homophile organizations were all founded in California: the Mattachine Society, ONE Incorporated, and the Daughters of Bilitis.
Date: 09/15/2021
Primary URL: https://one.usc.edu/news/one-inc-and-mattachine-society-early-lgbtq-collections-now-online
Primary URL Description: https://one.usc.edu/news/one-inc-and-mattachine-society-early-lgbtq-collections-now-online
Blog Title: ONE Inc. and Mattachine Society, Early LGBTQ Collections Now Online
Website: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries

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