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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.

Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral & Public History, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)

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Established in 1968, the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral & Public History is a teaching, training, research, publication, and public service archive located at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)'s Pollak Library. It contains more than 6,000 oral histories covering a wide range of people and topics from California and beyond.

LGBTQ+ topics and themes represented in the collections held by the Center for the Oral & Public History include Asian & AAPI LGBTQ+ people and LGBTQ+ activism.

Featured Collections

Los Angeles Gay Asian Pacific Community Oral History Project, 1997-1998

A series of oral histories with Asian and Asian American gay men in California. For more information on the collection, please contact the archive.

Grassroots Politics Oral History Project, 2010-2013

The Grassroots Oral History Project looks at the different and varying circumstances that lead individuals to take political action in their communities. This project emphasizes individual participation in the context of broad historical politics, movements, and events. This project also seeks to study why average citizens take action, how they label their activism, and how they alter or reinforce the common understanding of political engagement and activism.

Of particular note within this collection are the following LGBTQ+ oral histories:

Personal & Family Histories, 1968-2013

A series of oral histories centered around personal lives and family histories and connections of the narrators. For more information on the collection, please contact the archive.

Women, Politics, & Activism Project, circa 1960-present

The Women, Politics, and Activism Project (WPA) focuses on the political lives and actions of Southern California women. By recording women’s memories, we are demonstrating the myriad of ways women have participated in politics from formal, elected office to local community-based organizations. These oral histories highlight how as individuals and collectively women have made a difference in the types of policies enacted by county and municipal governments in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

Of particular note within this collection are the following Latinx LGBTQ+ oral histories:

Contact the Center for Oral & Public History

For more information about the Center for Oral & Public History's LGTBQ+ collections and holdings, including citation and copyright information, please contact Natalie Navar Garcia.

✉ Email: nngarcia@fullerton.edu
☎ Call: 657-278-3693

The Center for Oral & Public History is an L.A. as Subject member. For more information about L.A. as Subject, visit their website here.