Patricia Callahan files on Orange County lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activism, 1965-2005, bulk 1985-1993 1985 - 1993.

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Patricia Callahan files on Orange County lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activism, 1965-2005, bulk 1985-1993 1985 - 1993.

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This collection primarily documents AIDS, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activism in Orange County, California circa 1985-2005 including material on the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), Laguna Outreach, and the No on 64 Campaign. The bulk of the collection consists of Patricia Callahan's subject files, which include materials she collected as co-chair of Election Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), one of California largest political action committees. The subject files also include correspondence, campaign, and lobbying materials from Callahan's involvement with the "No on 64" campaign, which successfully fought to prevent the quarantine of AIDS/HIV patients; the California Assembly Bill 101 campaign to add "sexual orientation" to the list of protected categories in the California Fair Employment and Housing Act; and the City of Irvine's Human Rights Ordinance, which included the term "sexual orientation" in an anti-discrimination ordinance. Additionally, the collection includes correspondence, research, news clippings and awards collected by Don Hagan and Drew Barras related to AIDS activism. Materials include correspondence publications, news clippings, newsletters, brochures, articles, pamphlets, directories, a catalog, 2 videocassettes (VHS), printed ephemera, agendas, minutes, memorial materials, and photographic prints.

3.5 Linear feet

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7916238

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

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Barras, Drew

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Dannemeyer, William.

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Online Archive of California

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Hagan, Don

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Election Committee of the County of Orange (Calif.)

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Callahan, Patricia A.

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Patricia Callahan was an AIDS activist and leader in the LGBT community in Orange County, California during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She contributed to a number of organizations, committees, and conferences that supported gay and lesbian rights and AIDS awareness and education including: the Election Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), Laguna Outreach, The Human Rights Campaign Fund, and The Federation. Through her work with ECCO, Callahan lobbied and campaigned on issues directly a...