Orange County Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Timeline research files, 1970 - 2000 1991 - 1996.

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Orange County Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Timeline research files, 1970 - 2000 1991 - 1996.

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The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, and ephemera about Orange County, California's gay and lesbian communities. The materials were collected by multiple individuals as part of the Orange County Historical Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Timeline Project. The project highlights important people, organizations, and events related to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community in Orange County, California. The bulk of the collection comprises newspaper and magazine clippings, with additional photographs, newsletters, correspondence, and ephemera included. The collection is particularly strong in documenting Orange County residents' participation in Laguna Pride Weekend, Gay Games IV, the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Equal Rights and Liberation.

3.8 Linear feet (11 boxes)

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 7916236

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Hitt, Dick

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Gay Games

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Historical Note The Gay Games was an athletic event and festival first held in San Francisco between August 28 and September 5,1982. The event was founded by Tom Waddell, and it was first referred to as the Gay Olympics as it was modeled after the international Olympic Games. Controversy surrounding the event began when the U.S. Olympic Committee filed a legal injunction that succeeded in preventing use of the word "Olympic" as part of its na...

Laguna Pride Weekend (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

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Online Archive of California

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Muirhead, Barbara

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The Orange County Historical LGBT Historical Timeline Project was started in 1995, by Barbara Muirhead to provide background information to participants of the Orange County Federation of Lesbian, Gay, and HIV/AIDS support organizations. That same year, UC Irvine opened the first Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Resource Center in the University of California System which hosted the first online version of the Timeline. Since the project's inception, researcher Dick Hitt has also contributed information a...