ONE Archives is excited to announce newly available online materials from ONE’s collections, including selected serials and archival collections with a focus on people of color and disabled LGBTQ+ communities in California. Thanks to a generous grant from the California State Library, ONE Archives can now provide online access to recently digitized materials, such as records of the Black and White Men Together (BWMT), Gay Asian Pacific Support Network (GAPSN), Multi-ethnic Gay and Lesbian Exchange, and Southern California Rainbow Society of the Deaf; as well as serials and newsletters documenting people of color and disabled LGBTQ community organizations. Through this project, we aim to facilitate access and bring these underrepresented stories to the surface through the USC Digital Library.
The digitized materials highlight dozens of publications from organizations such as Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT), Gay Men of Color Consortium, Viva!: a Lesbian and Gay Latino Arts Organization, Southern California Gender Identity Group, and Jewel’s Catch One Disco, among others. Also included are materials documenting transgender community resources and newsletters from transgender activist Jude Patton.
In addition, we are especially excited to announce that this project also included the digitization of publications and sound recordings from the Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos. In particular, we digitized our collection of 50+ episodes of Radio GLLU, a monthly, bilingual radio program produced by members of GLLU for over 10 years beginning in 1986. Most of these recordings have not been heard since their original broadcast, and we proud to preserve and make them accessible to the public again.
This project was made possible thanks to a grant from the California State Library toward the preservation and accessibility of California’s LGBTQ+ history. The materials digitized through this project bring to light the hidden histories of LGBTQ communities and reveal the breadth of contributions in advancing the struggle for LGBTQ equality.
