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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.

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Media Archive

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The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Media Archive is a continuously-expanding online showcase with over 1,000 hours of video, featuring the world’s most significant architects, designers, and theorists—including 11 Pritzker Prize winners—from 1972 to now, offered to the public unedited, for students, scholars and anybody with an interest in architecture, Los Angeles and experimental design.

Prominent topics and themes represented in the collections held by the SCI-Arc Media Archive include arts and entertainment and LGBTQ+ activism.

Featured Collections

Chase (John) papers, 1953-2010

This collection contains 18 boxes of drawings, sketches and texts for architectural design and projects, manuscripts, 35m slides, syllabi, and publications mostly on Southern California vernacular architecture.

Queer Architecture (video collection), 1995-2021*

The notion of queerness, as it relates not only to gender, politics, and personhood, but also to design, architecture, and aesthetics, can be understood as a conceptual framework through which academics and practitioners have developed meaningful discourse in the twenty-first century. SCI-Arc Librarian Kevin McMahon has curated a series of lectures from the SCI-Arc Media Archive alongside films and documentaries produced by SCI-Arc Channel featuring architects, designers, curators, and artists that delve deeply into conversations considering ideas of equity, space, bodies, mythology, materiality, liberation, performance, form, and history.

Books and Manuscripts

A Difficult Balance - Harm Reduction Housing for People with AIDS. 1988.

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UCLA Queer Space Reader. 1992.

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*online materials available

Contact the SCI-Arc Media Archive

For more information about the SCI-Arc Media Archive's LGTBQ+ collections and holdings, including citation and copyright information, please contact Kevin McMahon.

✉ Email: kevin_mcmahon@sciarc.edu
☎ Call: 213-356-5323

The SCI-Arc Media Archive is an L.A. as Subject member. For more information about L.A. as Subject, visit their website here.