Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ CollectionsMain MenuHidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ CollectionsWelcome 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 InstitutionsL.A. as Subject member institutions from across Southern California have joined with ONE and LAAS to collaborate on this project.Topical GuideCollections from participating institutions organized based on the subject or topic of the materials.
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1media/lapl logo copy.png2023-11-16T14:22:38-08:00Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection28plain2024-04-05T12:16:16-07:0034.050780856395185, -118.25491906210003The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collectioncontains images from the 1850s to the present, documenting all aspects of life in Southern California, with an emphasis on Los Angeles.
LGBTQ+ topics and themes represented in the collections held by the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection include Arts and Gay men.
Featured Materials
Annual Drag Party photo album, 1949-1955
This collection is currently being processed, please contact the archive for more information.
Around 27,000 scanned photographs from the Los Angeles Evening Herald (1920s-1962) and Herald Examiner (1962-1989) provide dynamic coverage of the entertainment industry, politics, sports, and public issues.
This collection contains approximately 3,000 photographic negatives and contact sheets of 35mm film shot by Jacinto in Los Angeles, primarily of the Los Angeles punk music scene, LGBTQ+ events ranging from political rallies to Pride celebrations, and Los Angeles city events.
This collection consists of several thousand photographs and negatives, hundreds of items of ephemera, many journals and items of correspondence, and several puppets and stage props owned by the Yale Puppeteers. The trio that made up the troupe—Harry Burnett, Forman Brown, and Richard “Roddy” Brandon—were all gay. While they were not open about this during the height of their popularity, two of them did come out in the 1990s (the third had already passed). View the finding aid here.
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For more information about the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection's LGTBQ+ collections and holdings, including citation and copyright information, please contact the archives.
