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The Tess Ayers collection consists of copies of her book The Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings, reviews of the book, a proposal for the book, and fan mail.

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Judy Custer (1947-2008) was a physical therapist in Cañon City, living in Guffey, Colorado where there was a growing lesbian community. The bulk of the collection is letters Judy received from friends and family. Other materials in the collection are personal photographs, buttons and patches from Judy’s time in the Girl Scouts, and clippings featuring Judy.

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Marie Cartier (b. 1965) is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, activist and facilitator. She also has a first degree black belt in karate. She currently teaches at the University of California Irvine in the Film Department, and at CSU Northridge in the Women's Studies Department. The materials include student projects from her Queer Studies class at CSUN, her dissertations and research, LGBT and feminist materials, and resources and research on abuse.

Abstract Lillian Faderman is an internationally-known literary scholar and historian of lesbian history. The collection contains book reviews, publicity, chapter drafts, layouts, photos, and proposals relating to Lillian Faderman’s books: Surpassing the Love of Men (1981); Scotch Verdict (1983); Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991); Chloe Plus Olivia (1994); I Begin My...

Abstract Diane F. Germain is a lesbian, a psychiatric social worker, and cartoonist with ties to activist and lesbian separatist communities in Vermont, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Not wanting any pieces of lesbian history to end up in a dumpster, she wrote down everything and saved and cataloged her own documents, as well as those given to her by other lesbians. This bulk of the collection represents an overview of life in the lesbian community in Southern California from the 1980s-1990s as well as...

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The collection consists of personal papers from filmmaker Rosser Goodman and material from the Film Fatale film screenings across Los Angeles including the PALMS bar and Outfest, which she helped organize.

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Betty Jetter was a lesbian activist and community member. She was a part of the Califia Community, National Organization for Women (NOW), ERA and other local organizing groups. Her collection includes photographs, letters, military life information, and unpublished works.

Abstract Sharon Raphael and Mina Kay Meyer were advocates for old lesbians and organizers with the Gay Rights Movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s-2000s. Sharon worked as a sociology professor at CSUDH for 40 years specializing in gerontology and LGBTQ aging and Mina Meyer wrote the first social science thesis on lesbian aging, “The Older Lesbian.” They co-founded the first LGBT synagogue in Los Angeles, CA, Beth Chayim Chadashim, the AIDS Hospice Committee, and the National Association of Lesbian...

Abstract Juanita Sanchez was a celebrated poet who organized writing spaces for other women and the elderly community in Albuquerque. The Juanita Sanchez Collection houses Sanchez’s personal journals spanning over 40 years, a published essay by Sanchez featured in the anthology HardHatted Women: Life on the Job, and photographs of Sanchez. Sanchez (1948-2014) was raised and spent a majority of her life in and around the rural areas of Sun Valley and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sanchez wrote about her...