Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections Main Menu Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections Welcome to Hidden Histories! Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections! What is Hidden Histories? A partnership between ONE Archives at USC and L.A. as Subject, Hidden Histories' goal is to create a centralized resource of LGBTQ+ archival material for researchers and community members. Participating Institutions L.A. as Subject member institutions from across Southern California have joined with ONE and LAAS to collaborate on this project. Topical Guide Collections from participating institutions organized based on the subject or topic of the materials.

Center for the Study of Political Graphics

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The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. 

Prominent topics and themes represented in the collections held by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics include LGBTQ+ activism and politics.

Featured Materials

Center of the Study of Political Graphics collection, 1900-present
This collection contains over 90,000 domestic and international political posters and prints relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. The LGBTQ+ posters primarily consist of protest posters that record LGBTQ+ activism and political organizing. Subjects and topics include marriage equality, HIV/AIDS, boycotts, youth and students, violence against LGBTQ+ people, laws and propositions, and Pride. LGBTQ+ creators featured in the collection include artists Julio Salgado, Ester Hernández, Micah Bazant, Liz Hale, Cheri Gaulke, Alma Lopez, Robert Birch; important art collectives such as Dyke Action Machine (DAM), Gran Fury; feminist art collectives such as Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective, Woman’s Building (Los Angeles), Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), See Red Women’s Workshop (London); organizations such as ACT UP/LA, Queer Nation (Los Angeles chapter), and Christopher Street West. 
Queer Rights Are Human Rights: Posters of LGBTQ Struggles & Celebrations (online exhibition)*
For more than 70 years, poster art has been central in fighting for LGBTQ+ rights. Whether homophobia is institutionalized through legislation or conducted culturally through physical, psychological, or emotional violence, it is a human rights violation. Queer Rights Are Human Rights: Posters of LGBTQ+ Struggles & Celebrations shows the power of graphics to expose injustices, defend rights, and celebrate victories.

*online materials available; please note that the Center for the Study of Political Graphics is actively digitizing posters to grow its collection

Contact the Center for the Study of Political Graphics

For more information about the Center for the Study of Political Graphics' LGTBQ+ collections and holdings, including citation and copyright information, please contact the archives.

✉ Email: archives@politicalgraphics.org
☎ Call: 310-397-3100
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an L.A. as Subject member. For more information about L.A. as Subject, visit their website here.

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