Robert Garcia papers, 1988-1993.
Collection Number: 7574

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Robert Garcia papers, 1988-1993.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7574
Abstract:
The Robert Garcia papers include personal papers and files reflecting Garcia's personal life and involvement in lesbian and gay rights, reproductive rights, and AIDS activism. Garcia's papers also reflect his involvement in ACT UP-New York, the national organization Men of All Colors Together (formerly Black and White Men Together), and a video collective called House of Color; also, testimony regarding his arrest for civil disobedience at an ACT UP demonstration. A collection of videocassettes includes biographical material as well as footage related to activism about AIDS, identity politics, race and sexuality; also work by House of Color.
Creator:
Garcia, Robert.
Quanitities:
9.0 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Robert Garcia was born in 1962 in Whittier, California. His years in New York City were devoted chiefly to political activism, pertaining especially to issues of race and sexuality. In "Speak for Yourself: 7 Activists Talk about ACT-UP," by Jim Hubbard, 1990, Garcia said that being half Navajo, half Mexican, and gay were the three things that identified who he was. He was an important member of ACT UP in New York City, founding and directing committees and caucuses within the organization. A leading role in ACT UP actions and demonstrations led to Garcia's participation in several video projects with the video collective House of Color. His activities extended to Latino and pro-choice activism, and included active participation in the national organization Men Of All Colors Together. He died of complications due to AIDS in New York City in 1993.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Series I. Personal
Robert Garcia's personal papers include resumes, an obituary, his memorial announcement, birth and baptismal certificates, address books, a passport, a biographical essay by his friend Karen Ramspacher, photographs, and other items pertaining to his private life. Garcia's journals date from 1985, 1988, and 1991 and include an undated journal. Garcia wrote in them sporadically, noting items of interest, and kept many loose papers within their pages. In his later journals he speaks of his impending death. Additional topics include ACT UP, his daily plans and activities, employment and finances, as well as clippings detailing Garcia's numerous appearances in the media.
Garcia's 1988 arrest on Wall Street and his subsequent testimony are included, as well as his resignation as Insurance Services Office executive secretary in 1990. Included are files Karen Rampspacher kept on Robert's health, treatments, health insurance, and the AIDS drug assistance program and files Bob Scapa, his hoyfriend during 1990-1992, kept on AIDS symptoms and other issues. Garcia kept many telephone numbers and miscellaneous notes from friends. He also had in his possession photographs of Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, in addition to those of his family and friends. Garcia's papers included the high school diploma and photo album of fellow AIDS activist Rodger Pettyjohn.
Series II. Correspondence
Garcia's incoming correspondence is from friends and family. The familial correspondence spans approximately 1986 to 1991. The correspondence with friends begins in 1983 when Garcia was twenty-one and somewhat involved with Anthony Milanez, a man who that year wrote him numerous passionate letters. Milanez' letters abruptly stopped though Garcia received an occasional card from him from in the years 1986 to 1991. Garcia's correspondence from friends continued until 1991, and included an ex-lover Joseph Lonzi, past and present members of his New York City loft, and many other friends and acquaintances. He received a Christmas card from Phil Zwickler and post cards from Tim Miller, one of the "NEA Four" (National Endowment for the Arts artists whose grants were terminated following political pressure). Many cards and letters lack dates. In addition, a portion of his 1990 correspondence was never opened.
Series III. ACT UP
This series includes minutes, fliers, press releases, and assorted miscellany from committees Garcia was involved with such as Outreach, Majority Action, Latino Caucus, Speakers Bureau, and the Lesbian and Gay Activist History Project, as well as ACT UP publications and clippings concerning ACT UP in the media (New York) and other national and international chapters. It also includes press releases from major ACT UP protests such as the FDA Action (October 1988), Target City Hall (March 28, 1989), Storm the N.I.H. (May 21, 1990), and Stop the Church (December 10, 1989). Notable in the series are several histories of queer activism compiled by the Lesbian and Gay Activist History Project.
Series IV. AIDS
This series includes articles about the AIDS epidemic in the media, as well as such topics as drug treatment, safe sex practices, health insurance, anti-HIV discrimination, nutrition, and housing for HIV+ people. The series includes reports from the Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic (1987, 1988), the International Conference on AIDS (1990, 1991, 1992), and a conference regarding minorities and AIDS. The focus of Garcia's AIDS files was a critique of the United States government's handling of the AIDS crisis.
Series V. Topical Files
This series includes files Garcia kept on many other topics of interest to him, including gays and lesbians of color, women and AIDS, AIDS and New York City politics, gay Catholics, reproductive rights, gay and lesbian activism, and gay and lesbian events in the arts. Gay and lesbian activism featured in the media is prominently noted, as well as fliers and publications regarding gay and lesbian events in New York City and those held at the City's Lesbian and Gay Community Center. He kept files on a number of organizations, including his video collective, House of Color. There are files on Queer Nation, the Lesbian and Gay People of Color Steering Committee, Dignity: Gay and Lesbian Catholics, NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association)), COOL (Committee of Outraged Lesbians), WHAM (Women's Health Action and Mobilization), and MACT (Men of All Colors Together). Also included is information regarding Lesbian and Gay Studies programs implemented in colleges and universities in the United states, and conferences and events sponsored by these programs. In addition Garcia kept leaflets from Phil Zwickler and Raymond Navarro's memorial ceremonies. The series includes single issues of periodicals useful to Garcia in his research.
Series VI. Ephemera
Included in this series are gay buttons and stickers, post cards, safe sex packets, political pamphlets, matchbooks, phonodiscs, name tags, and drawings on paper napkins.
Series VII. Graphic Material
Graphic material includes posters, oversized pictorial works, and other items topically consistent with the rest of the Collection.
Series VIII. Video Material
This series includes biographical material such as the memorial tape made by Garcia's friends and a home video of this family. The videos also show Garcia and other activists talking to various audiences about AIDS, identity politics, race and sexuality. Included is work by the video collective House of Color.
Conditions Governing Use

Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage. Audio visual material that has been digitized: V-110 - V-130, V-819.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:

Robert Garcia papers, #7574. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Processing Note:

Some periodicals and books were removed from the Robert Garcia Collection during processing. These are listed at the end of this guide.
SEPARATED MATERIAL

List Of Periodicals Removed From Robert Garcia Collection, And Placed In The Human Sexuality Collection Periodicals:
  1. PWA (People with AIDS) Newsline (8 folders)
  2. Body Positive (7 folders)
  3. Black/Out
  4. A Different Light Review
  5. SIDA Hora
  6. ATR (AIDS Treatment Registry) (2 folders)
  7. PI Perspective (2 folders)
  8. AIDSINFO Digest
  9. AIDS/HIV Experimental Treatment Directory
  10. STOP THE VIOLENCE
  11. HOLY TIT CLAMPS
  12. ALTER EGO
  13. Reverberate
  14. HOMOture
  15. PANSY BEAT
  16. TED
  17. ONE
  18. Radical America (2 folders)
  19. B and G
  20. My Comrade
  21. Genre
  22. San Francisco Sentinel
  23. Gay Community News
  24. Sappho's Isle
  25. The ABC No Rio Rag
  26. MEC
  27. VIVA!
  28. BLK (3 folders)
  29. SOUP
  30. VISIBILITIES
  31. GAIPIED
  32. Reproductive Rights Newsletter
  33. ADVOCATE (2 folders)
  34. APLA UPDATE
  35. News Jersey
  36. OUTCRY
  37. NJ ACT UP
  38. BEING ALIVE
  39. Treatment Issues
  40. AIDS Treatment News
  41. GLAAD Bulletin
Single Issues
  1. Breakthrough
  2. Our World
  3. Science Fiction Chronicle
  4. Streetwize Comics
  5. Pink Triangle
  6. Image
  7. Pussy Grazer (zine)
  8. Whispering Campaign (zine)
  9. Brains (zine)
  10. Michael's Thing (zine)
  11. BIMBOX (zine)
  12. The Independent
  13. GS (Gay Scotland)
  14. Die Heisse Nummer (The Hot Number) - German periodical
  15. Mediafile
  16. Piss Elegant (zine)
  17. Caribbean Heat
  18. !AHA!
  19. Factsheet Fire
  20. EDGE
  21. The Children's Voice
  22. LA Weekly
  23. Frontiers
  24. GAWK
  25. DPN (Diseased Pariah News)
  26. The Pyramid Periodical
  27. NYQ
  28. SIN BROS.
  29. Gayellow Pages
  30. Straight to Hell
  31. Christopher Street
  32. QW
  33. James White Review
  34. The Newsletter
  35. Arizona Community Echo
  36. GAPS (The Gay [Men's] Amateur Press Society)
  37. Project X
  38. Optimist
  39. Wisconsin Light
  40. Reality Check
  41. Fertile La Toyah
  42. DEAN
  43. J.D.'s
  44. Surviving and Thriving With AIDS: Hints for the Newly Diagnosed
  45. Lesbian Herstory Archives
  46. Lesbian Contradiction
  47. [Swish]
  48. [Ashtray]
List Of Books Removed From Robert Garcia's Collection:
  1. Between The Lines, 1987editors: C. Chung, A. Kim, A. K. Lemeshewsky
  2. Homosexual Counseling Journal, July 1974, April 1976editor: Ralph Blair
  3. ...And Justice for All trustee: Michael M. Berlin
  4. AIDS, Civil Rights and the Public Health: America's Leaders Speak Out, 1988published by NGRA (National Gay Rights Advocates)
  5. Drawing on the Gay Experience, 1987Gerard P. Donelan
  6. Donelan's Back, 1988Gerard P. Donelan
  7. Heal Your Body, 1976Louise L. Hay
  8. Living with Aids, 1987Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
  9. The Politics of AIDS, 1986Nancy Krieger, Rose Appleman
  10. Socialist Review (SR)October - December 1988Executive editor: Ron Silliman
  11. The Evergreen Chronicles, Winter 1987editors: Don Markus Matsen, Barrie Jean Borich, Doug Federhart, Lisa Albrecht
  12. Bowers vs. Hardwick: The Supreme Court and Sodomy, 1986Jim Peron
  13. The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing Seventies and Eighties, 1986 editor: Barbara Smith
  14. STRIP AIDS(comic book)
  15. Gay Freedom 1970 editors of QQ
  16. Other Countries: Black Gay Voices
  17. No TitleTheo Lipfert
Series I. Robert Garcia Personal Papers Boxes 1, 10
Series II. Correspondence Boxes 1-2
Series III. ACT UP Boxes 2-4, 10
Series IV. AIDS Boxes 4-6, 10
Series V. Topical File/Research File Boxes 6-7, 10, 11, 12
Series VI. Ephemera Box 8
Series VII. Graphic Material Box 9, Map Case
Series VIII. Video Material V-110 to V-130
SUBJECTS

Names:
Ramspacher, Karen.
Malus, Joan.
ACT UP-New York
Men of All Colors Together
National Association of Black and White Men Together
Clit Club (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Navajo Indians -- Ethnic identity.
Race identity.
Gay liberation movement -- New York (N.Y.)
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Reproductive rights.
Gays -- Political activity.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social unrest.
AIDS (Disease) -- Political activity.
Civil disobedience.
Form and Genre Terms:
Videocassettes.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Robert Garcia Personal Papers
See also under Videotapes

: "Robert Garcia Memorial" (V-110), and "Our Family: The Garcias" (V-111)
Box 1 Folder 1
Journals
 1985
Box 1 Folder 2-3
Journal
 1988
Box 1 Folder 4-5
Journals
 1991
Box 1 Folder 6
Journal
 1991?
Box 1 Folder 7
Journal
 undated
Box 10 Folder 1
Garcia in The Media
Box 1 Folder 8
Birth certificate, Baptism certificate
Box 1 Folder 9-10
Medical tests, receipts, insurance
Box 1 Folder 11
Employment, passport, driver's license
Box 1 Folder 12
Employment, business cards, finances
Box 1 Folder 13-14
Memos, receipts, ACT UP plans, Lotto tickets
Box 1 Folder 15
ACT UP notes
Box 10 Folder 2
ACT UP notes
Box 1 Folder 16
Memos, notes, telephone numbers
Box 1 Folder 17
Miscellaneous letters and notes
Box 1 Folder 18
Arrest at a demonstration on Wall Street, 1988
Box 1 Folder 19-22
Testimony
Box 1 Folder 20B
Testimony, Robert Garcia's.
 1988
Box 1 Folder 23
Resignation as Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) Executive Secretary, 1990
Box 1 Folder 24
Biographical essay by Karen Ramspacher; Miscellaneous ephemera
Box 1 Folder 25
Gifts
Box 1 Folder 26
Address book
Box 1 Folder 27
James Dean address book
Box 1 Folder 28
Garcia in The Media
Box 1 Folder 29
Photographs
Box 1 Folder 30
Rodger Pettyjohn's high school diploma
Box 1 Folder 31
Rodger Pettyjohn's photo album
Box 1 Folder 32
Rodger Pettyjohn
Box 1 Folder 42
Robert Garcia Photographs
Box 1 Folder 43
RG Memorial announcement
 1993
Box 1 Folder 41
RG personal statement about ACT UP and RG letterhead
Box 1 Folder 36
Ramspacher notes on possible archives for RG's papers
 1991-1993
Box 1 Folder 37
Bob, Scarpa, notes on AIDS symptoms and miscellaneouns
 1991
Box 1 Folder 38
ALS, Bob Scarpa to "johny Cakes," written from Cherry Grove, Fire Island, Long Island, New York
 June 1991
Box 1 Folder 39
Bob Scarpa photographs
Box 1 Folder 44
Karen Ramspacher's notes about RG's health, treatment and insurance including AIDS Drug Assistrance Program
 1989-1991
Series II. Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 33
Letters from Anthony Milanez
 1983-1986
Box 1 Folder 34
Incoming letters
 1985
Box 1 Folder 35
Incoming letters
 1986
Box 2 Folder 1
Letters from family
 1986-1989
Box 2 Folder 2
Incoming letters
 1987
Box 2 Folder 3
Incoming letters
 1988
Box 2 Folder 4
Incoming letters
 1989
Box 2 Folder 5
Incoming letters
 1990
Box 2 Folder 6
Letters from family
 1990
Box 2 Folder 7
Incoming letters (never opened)
 1990
Box 2 Folder 8
Incoming letters
 1991
Box 2 Folder 9
Letters from family
 1991
Box 2 Folder 10-12
Incoming letters
 undated
Box 2 Folder 13
Card from Phil Zwickler
Series III. ACT UP
Box 2 Folder 14
History
Box 2 Folder 15
ACT UP: A His and Herstory of Queer Activism, June 1989
Box 2 Folder 16
Teach-in: Lesbian and Gay History including Daughters of Bilitis, Mattachine Society, GAA
Box 2 Folder 17
Personal Objectives
Box 2 Folder 18
First Annual Slumber Party invitation
Box 2 Folder 19
Universal Healthcare
Box 2 Folder 20
Quilt Outreach Sign Up for FDA Action
Box 2 Folder 21
New York Auction for Action
Box 2 Folder 22
Los Angeles
Box 10 Folder 5
Los Angeles
Box 2 Folder 23
Various national ACT UP publications
Box 2 Folder 24
FDA Action, Quilt Outreach (Bus 1) Saturday, October 8, 1988
Box 2 Folder 25
FDA Action, Quilt Outreach (Bus 1) Friday, October 7, 1988
Box 2 Folder 26
FDA Action, Quilt Outreach (Bus 2) Saturday, October 8, 1988
Box 2 Folder 27
FDA Action, Quilt Outreach (Bus 2) Saturday, Friday, October 7, 1988
Box 2 Folder 28
FDA Action, Quilt Outreach (Bus 3), Saturday, October 8, 1988
Box 2 Folder 29
FDA Action, Fall 1988
Box 2 Folder 30
Target City Hall
Box 2 Folder 31
ACT UP at the N.I.H. (National Institutes of Health)
Box 2 Folder 32
Cardinal O'Connor and the Church
Box 2 Folder 33
Phone Lists
Box 2 Folder 34
Legislative Monitoring
Box 2 Folder 35-36
Latino Caucus
Box 2 Folder 37-38
Majority Action Committee
Box 2 Folder 39-40
Weekly Reports
Box 2 Folder 41-44
Outreach Committee
Box 2 Folder 45
Outreach Duties
Box 2 Folder 46-49
Speakers Bureau
Box 10 Folder 4
Speakers Bureau
Box 2 Folder 50
Speaking Engagements
Box 2 Folder 51
Media Committee
Box 3 Folder 1-3
Media Committee
Box 3 Folder 4
Housing Caucus, Homeless People with AIDS
Box 3 Folder 5
ZAP Fact Sheets
Box 3 Folder 6
Project Database
Box 3 Folder 7
Benefits for ACT UP
Box 3 Folder 8-41
Miscellaneous Printed Material
Box 4 Folder 1-2
Miscellaneous Printed Material
Box 4 Folder 3
ACT UP Enquirer
Box 4 Folder 4
San Francisco
Box 4 Folder 5
Los Angeles
Box 10 Folder 5
Los Angeles
Box 4 Folder 6
Los Angeles News
Box 4 Folder 7-8
Reports
Box 4 Folder 9
AIDS Drugs Now
Box 4 Folder 10
ACT UP's Checklist for Actions
Box 4 Folder 11
Mailing List
Box 4 Folder 12
New York Women's Caucus
Box 4 Folder 13
Treatment and Data Update
Box 10 Folder 3
Treatment and Data Update
Box 4 Folder 14
Treatment and Data
Box 4 Folder 15
ACT UP at the Oscars
Box 4 Folder 16
International ACT UP
Box 10 Folder 6-11
ACT UP, General
Series IV. AIDS
Box 4 Folder 17
Clinical Trial Groups
Box 4 Folder 18
Insurance and AIDS
Box 4 Folder 19
Directories: Lesbian/Gay, AIDS
Box 4 Folder 20-26
Politics
Box 10 Folder 12-16
Politics
Box 4 Folder 27-30
Presidential Commission on HIV Epidemic
Box 4 Folder 31
Presidential Commission on HIV Epidemic, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1988
Box 4 Folder 32
Presidential commission on HIV Epidemic, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1988
Box 4 Folder 33
Presidential commission on HIV Epidemic, Washington, D.C., February 29, 1988
Box 4 Folder 34
Los Angeles Policy on HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Box 4 Folder 35
The Macro-Metabolic Eating System
Box 4 Folder 36
New York State Directory of AIDS/HIV Clinical Trials, Fall 1991
Box 4 Folder 37
AIDS Related Services/Education Proposal, New York City, 1988-89
Box 4 Folder 38
Advance Program: 6th International Conference on AIDS, San Francisco, California, June 20-24, 1990
Box 4 Folder 39
VII International Conference on AIDS, Florence, Italy, June 16-21, 1991
Box 4 Folder 40
VIII International Conference on AIDS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 19-24, 1992
Box 4 Folder 41
FDA Action Handbook
Box 4 Folder 42
Critique of AIDS Clinical Trials Group, May 1, 1990
Box 4 Folder 43
GMHC: AIDS Service and Education Foundation Annual Report, 1985
Box 4 Folder 44
Second International Lesbian and Gay Health Conference and AIDS Forum Boston, Mass., July 20-26, 1988
Box 4 Folder 45
Government AIDS Treatment Programs
Box 4 Folder 46-47
ACT UP: Glossary of AIDS Drug Trials Testing of Treatment Issues
Box 4 Folder 48
Heroin and Cocaine Trafficking and the Relationship between IV Drug Use and AIDS, Nov. 26, 1985
Box 4 Folder 49
Intravenous Substance Abuse and AIDS Prevention Act of 1987
Box 4 Folder 50
Pediatric AIDS Hearing, July 27, 1987
Box 4 Folder 51
AIDS Education, Information, Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treatment, Care and Research Act of 1987
Box 4 Folder 52
"AIDS Drugs: Where are they?" 73rd Report by the Committee on Government Operations
Box 4 Folder 53-54
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison)
Box 10 Folder 19
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison)
Box 5 Folder 1
Minority Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Awareness and Prevention Act of 1987
Box 5 Folder 2
Intravenous Substance Abuse and AIDS Prevention Act of 1987
Box 5 Folder 3
National Conference on Prevention of HIV Infection and AIDS Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities in United States, August 15-17, 1988
Box 5 Folder 4
New York AIDS Coalition Conference, Albany, New York, October 18-19, 1989
Box 10 Folder 17
Letters from House of Representatives requesting sponsorship of various AIDS-related bills
Box 5 Folder 5
Drug Trials and Treatment Information, Nutritional Programs
Box 5 Folder 6
Treatment Decisions Handbook
Box 5 Folder 7
FDA Action Handbook, Sept. 21, 1988
Box 5 Folder 8
Funding Agenda for Community Based HIV/AIDS Programs in New York City
Box 5 Folder 9
Funding Agenda for Community Based HIV/AIDS Programs in New York State, Nov. 1988
Box 5 Folder 10
Funding Agenda for Community Based HIV/AIDS Programs in New York State, Dec. 1988
Box 5 Folder 11
The Economic and Policy Implications of Early Intervention in HIV Disease
Box 5 Folder 12
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) HIV/AIDS Surveillance, July 1989
Box 5 Folder 13
AIDS and the Black Community
Box 5 Folder 14-15
Gay/Lesbians of Color and AIDS
Box 5 Folder 16
Lesbians and AIDS
Box 5 Folder 17-18
Women and AIDS
Box 5 Folder 19
NAMES Project Quilt
Box 5 Folder 20
AIDS and Syphilis
Box 10 Folder 18
AIDS and Reproductive Rights
Box 5 Folder 21
U.S. Commission of Civil Rights and AIDS
Box 5 Folder 22
New York City AIDS Task Force
Box 5 Folder 23
AIDS Public Information Data Set
Box 5 Folder 24
AIDS and New York City
Box 5 Folder 25
National Conference on HIV Infection and AIDS Among Racial and Ethnic Populations
Box 5 Folder 26
Summary of Findings: National HIV Research Study of Black Men
Box 5 Folder 27-48
Miscellaneous Printed Material
Box 6 Folder 1-28
Miscellaneous Printed Material
Box 10 Folder 12-16
AIDS
Series V. Topical File/Research File
Box 10 Folder 31
PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
Box 6 Folder 29
Lesbian and Gay Activism: Bibliography
Box 10 Folder 20
Gay/Lesbian Activism
Box 6 Folder 30
Lesbian and Gay Studies
Box 6 Folder 31
Stonewall Community Foundation
Box 6 Folder 32
National Association of Social Workers Resource Directory re: Lesbians and Gays
Box 6 Folder 33
Events in the Arts
Box 10 Folder 21-22
Gay/Lesbian Events in the Arts
Box 6 Folder 34
"Group Material," an artist's collective
Box 6 Folder 35
Keith Haring
Box 6 Folder 36
Censorship in the Arts
Box 6 Folder 37
Compound Q
Box 6 Folder 38
VOCAL (Voices of Color Against AIDS and for Life)
Box 6 Folder 39
The Community Research Initiative (CRI)
Box 6 Folder 40
Queer Nation
Box 10 Folder 27
Queer Nation
Box 10 Folder 32
TIARRA
Box 6 Folder 41
House of Color
Box 1 Folder 40
House of Color II
Box 6 Folder 42
Mission Statement: Lesbian and Gay People of Color Steering Committee
Box 6 Folder 43
Lesbian and Gay People of Color Steering Committee
Box 6 Folder 44
International News Concerning Gay/Lesbian Issues
Box 6 Folder 45
New York City Council Politics
Box 10 Folder 33
New York City Council Politics
Box 6 Folder 46
Gay Catholics
Box 6 Folder 47
Dignity: Gay and Lesbian Catholics
Box 7 Folder 1-10
Gay/Lesbian Events in the Arts
Box 7 Folder 11
Selection of Lesbian/Gay Poetry
Box 7 Folder 12
NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association)
Box 7 Folder 13
National Center for Men
Box 7 Folder 14
Giovanni's Room (Gay/Lesbian bookstore, Philadelphia, PA)
Box 7 Folder 15
Elizabeth Holtzman on "Invisible Diversity: A Gay and Lesbian Corporate Agenda"
Box 7 Folder 16
Gay Broadcasting System
Box 7 Folder 17
COOL (Committee of Outraged Lesbians)
Box 7 Folder 18
Alice Walker
Box 7 Folder 19
WHAM (Women's Health Action and Mobilization)
Box 10 Folder 30
WHAM (Women's Health Action and Mobilization)
Box 7 Folder 20
Reproductive Rights
Box 7 Folder 21
Activism: Women
Box 7 Folder 22
Gay/Lesbians of Color
Box 10 Folder 28
Black Lesbians and Gays
Box 10 Folder 29
People of Color Conference - Chicago, April 1990
Box 7 Folder 23
People of Color Conference
Box 7 Folder 24
MACT (Men of All Colors Together): notes
Box 7 Folder 25
Responses to Supreme Court Webster Decision
Box 7 Folder 26
Que Viva! (Latino/a corporation in fine arts with Gay/Lesbian emphasis)
Box 7 Folder 27
American Indian Community House Inc.
Box 7 Folder 28
WE WAH and Indigenous People
Box 7 Folder 29
National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations
Box 7 Folder 30
David Dinkins: Social Services Search Committee
Box 7 Folder 31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Box 10 Folder 26
Civil Rights
Box 7 Folder 32
Phil Zwickler Memorial
Box 7 Folder 33
Raymond Navarro
Box 10 Folder 25
Roy Navarro Memorial
Box 7 Folder 34
Loft Parties
Box 7 Folder 35
Humor
Box 7 Folder 36
Gay City Maps
Box 7 Folder 37
Maps
Box 7 Folder 38
Public Relations
Box 7 Folder 39
Exercise tips
Box 7 Folder 40
Tips on Public Speaking
Box 7 Folder 41
Kobena Mercer's article "Black Man's Sex"
Box 7 Folder 42
New Canaan Weekend
Box 7 Folder 43
Religious/Spiritual Events
Box 10 Folder 34
Religious/Spiritual Events
Box 7 Folder 44
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
Box 7 Folder 45
Miscellaneous activism including homelessness, nuclear disarmament, political asylum, human rights, peace, racism
Box 7 Folder 46-50
Miscellaneous Articles
Box 10 Folder 35
Miscellaneous Clippings/Fliers
Box 7 Folder 51
Printed Material
Box 11 Folder 1-3
Single Issue Periodicals re Lesbians and Gays
Box 11 Folder 4
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Garden Party Programs, 1989-1992
Box 11 Folder 5
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Conference Program, Nov. 10-12, 1990, Minnesota
Box 11 Folder 6
Single Issue Periodicals re HIV and AIDS
Box 11 Folder 7-8
Single Issue Periodicals re AIDS and Health Publications, special issues
Box 11 Folder 9
Miscellaneous Single Issue Periodicals
Box 12 Folder 1-3
Miscellaneous Single Issue Periodicals
Series VI. Ephemera
Box 8 Folder 1-3
Miscellaneous ephemera
Box 8 Folder 4
Small pamphlet, various voices expressing anger about homophobia, titled "3," 198?
Box 8 Folder 5
Various quotations on slips of paper, notes, an invitation to a party
Box 8 Folder 6
Postcards, napkins
Box 8 Folder 7
Phonodiscs - 45 rpm
Box 8 Folder 8
"March Madness" poster
Box 8 Folder 9
Assorted business cards
Box 8 Folder 10
Assorted buttons
Box 8 Folder 11
Assorted matchbooks
Box 8 Folder 12
Assorted name tags
Box 8 Folder 13
Assorted safe sex packets
Box 8 Folder 14
Assorted stickers
Series VII. Graphic Material
Box 9 1
Australian comicbook family violence,
 1988
Box 9 2
Flyers, materials on Science Fiction,
 1989
Box 9 3
Broadside: "Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Presents Queer Culture,
 Apr. 1991
Box 9 4
Poster of the painting "Flandrin",
 1982
Box 9 5
Picture: "Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox Her Fall and Rise
Box 9 6
Fold out poster/flyer for the 4th Annual Lesbian and Gay New York Film Festival,
 Sept. 1990
Box 9 7
Broadside for the Safe Drugs Rally, NYC,
 May, n.y.
Box 9 8
Bag with advertisement for Tom Duane, City Council of NYC
Box 9 9
MEC Magazine,
 Jan. 1987
Box 9 10
Flyer for Armed Forces Day Salute & GVA Freedom Awards Benefit at Tracks, NYC,
 May 1988
Box 9 11
Flyer for an ACT UP benefit concert, NYC,
 May, 1988
Box 9 12
"25% Test Positive" poster, regarding prisoners with AIDS
Box 9 13
NY Peace Network Calendar, #62,
 Feb., 1989
Box 9 14
"Deadlier than the Virus", ripped off piece of a poster
Box 9 15
Poster for If Men Could Talk, The Stories They Could Tell performance, NYC
Box 9 16
NYC Lesbian & Gay Pride History month poster,
 June 1989
Box 9 17
NYC Lesbian & Gay Pride History month poster,
 June 1990
Box 9 18
NYC Lesbian & Gay Pride History month poster,
 June 1988
Box 9 19
World AIDS Day 1990 poster,
 Dec. 1990
Box 9 20
Broadside for A Man Cannot Jump Over His Own Shadow performance, NYC,
 Jan., n.y.
Box 9 21
Poster, "Video for Advocacy, Resistance, & Self-Empowerment", advertising a movie series, NYC,
 Apr. 1988
Box 9 22
Page from a newspaper advertising a performance of We Keep Our Victims Ready by Karen Finley, NYC,
 1990
Box 9 23
Publication, Le Manifeste de Montreal, by AIDS Action NOW! Toronto and ACT UP NY,
 1989
Box 9 24
"ACTUP Fight Back Fight AIDS" advertising poster, NYC
Box 9 25
2 large sheets of notes on ACT UP and community involvement
Box 9 26
"Remember Them And Be Reminded" AIDS Quilt unfolding advertisement flyer, NYC,
 June, n.y.
Scope and Contents
One in English, one in Spanish
Box 9 27
Two posters (?) of an eye
Box 9 28
"State Stiffs City On AIDS Care Funds & Drug Treatment" poster
Box 9 29
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade information booklet,
 1989
Box 9 30
"You Can Do It All Just Do It Safer" poster, one side in English one in Spanish
Box 9 31
"John Blair Opening Night at Roxy" poster,
 June 1991
Box 9 32
"Homo Hate", boycotting The Gap broadside
Box 9 33
"Democracy: Group Material" exhibition poster, NYC
Box 9 34
Poster advertisement/invitation for The Men's Room Bar, NYC,
 June 1991
Box 9 35
"Boycott White Powder Bring Back Herb!" broadside for Safe Drugs Rally, NYC
Box 9 36
Poster/artwork (?) of a naked man, with letters "E A"
Box 9 37
ACT-UP NYC performance benefit broadside
Box 9 38
Malibu Men calendar,
 1988
Box 9 39
Photocopies of articles, flyers, press conferences, etc. related to the Apollo Theatre, NYC,
 1990
Box 9 40
"Enjoy AZT" broadside
Box 9 41
Photocopies of artwork
Box 9 42
"Serial Killer" with a picture of George Bush broadside
Box 9 43
Poster for "The Center Show" commissioned by the NYC Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center,
 1989
Box 9 44
"Outmusic: The Lesbian & Gay Music Festival" poster,
 June 1991
Box 9 45
Large "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" by the UN poster,
 1985
Box 9 46
"Read This O Queers" broadside/manifesto, published anonymously by queers
Box 9 47
Copies of articles related to Alzheimers Disease, from The Wall Street Journal,
 4/30/1991
Box 9 48
Copy of "Read My Lips" broadside, with dates and descriptions of events by ACT UP NYC,
 Apr.-May, n.y.
Box 9 49
Copy of "Sexism Rears Its Unprotected Head" poster,
 1988
Box 9 50
"Freedom Can Seem Like A Revolutionary Idea" small flyer
Box 9 50
"Because..." lesbian & gay civil rights movement poster,
 1991
Box 9 51
NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project poster
Scope and Contents
With 24 hour crime victim's hotline number. One in English, one in Spanish.
Posters, broadsides, photographs, etc.
Series VIII. Video Material
Box 17 V-110
Robert Garcia Memorial
[VHS videotape-use copy]
Digital
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Box 17 V-110 c.2
Robert Garcia Memorial
[VHS videotape-preservation copy]
Box 17 DVD-50
Robert Garcia Memorial
[DVD-preservation copy]
Digital
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Box 17 V-111
Our Family: The Garcias
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-111 c.2
Our Family: The Garcias
[Beta Videotape]
Box 17 DVD-455
Our Family: The Garcias
[Use copy of V-111]
Box 17 V-112
Robert Garcia 1/18/89 copyright 1989 Jim Hubbard
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-112 c.2
Robert Garcia 1/18/89 copyright 1989 Jim Hubbard
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-456
Robert Garcia 1/18/89 copyright 1989 Jim Hubbard
[Use copy of V-112]
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Box 17 V-113
Robert Garcia and Karen Ramspacher at John Jay College Spring 1991
[VHS videotape-use copy]
Digital
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Scope and Contents
Second half of video includes Bill Moyers "The Image of God" interview with Dr. Haddad and Dr. Marso. First part of interview has been taped over.
V-113 c.2
Robert Garcia and Karen Ramspacher at John Jay College Spring 1991
[VHS videotape-preservation copy]
Box 17 DVD-51
Robert Garcia and Karen Ramspacher at John Jay College Spring 1991
[DVD-preservation copy]
Box 17 V-114
Phil Donahue with ACT UP--Robert 2/13/90
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-114 c.2
Phil Donahue with ACT UP--Robert 2/13/90
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Box 17 DVD-457
Phil Donahue with ACT UP--Robert 2/13/90
[Use copy of V-114]
Box 17 V-115
Turning Anger Into Action: Robert on the Panel
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-115 c.2
Turning Anger Into Action: Robert on the Panel
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-458
Turning Anger Into Action: Robert on the Panel
[Use copy of V-115]
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Box 17 V-116
Activist History in SF/ Zonal Music Video/ Black Filmmakers--Phil Donohue
[VHS videotape]
Digital
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Box 15 V-116 c.2
Activist History in SF/ Zonal Music Video/ Black Filmmakers--Phil Donohue
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-459
Activist History in SF/ Zonal Music Video/ Black Filmmakers--Phil Donohue
[Use copy of V-116]
Box 17 V-117
Writers Responsibilities
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-117 c.2
Writers Responsibilities
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-460
Writers Responsibilities
[Use copy of V-117]
Box 17 V-118
United Colors/ Museum
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-118 c.2
United Colors/ Museum
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-461
United Colors/ Museum
[Use copy of V-118]
Box 17 V-119
Robert Garcia--Town Meeting on PBS [June 1990]
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-119 c.2
Robert Garcia--Town Meeting on PBS [June 1990]
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-462
Robert Garcia--Town Meeting on PBS [June 1990]
[Use copy of V-119]
Box 17 V-120
Robert Garcia Town Meeting
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-120 c.2
Robert Garcia Town Meeting
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-463
Robert Garcia Town Meeting
[Use copy of V-120]
Box 17 V-121
Leadership Roundtable Tape 1
[VHS videotape]
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Box 17 V-121
Leadership Roundtable Tape 1
[VHS videotape]
Box 15 V-121 c.2
Leadership Roundtable Tape 1
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-464
Leadership Roundtable Tape 1
[Use copy of V-121]
Box 17 V-122
Leadership Roundtable Tape 2
[VHS videotape]
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Box 15 V-122 c.2
Leadership Roundtable Tape 2
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Box 17 DVD-465
Leadership Roundtable Tape 2
[Use copy of V-122]
Box 17 V-123
Leadership Institute Tape 1
[VHS videotape]
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Box 16 V-123 c.2
Leadership Institute Tape 1
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-466
Leadership Institute Tape 1
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Box 17 V-124
"HOUSE" Safe Sex/ Fundraising
GHMC Assistant Coordinator for People of Color Prevention Programs talking at a conference about ways he's working to reach youth. He discovered a good place to reach these youth is through their Houses, social networks of Black and Hispanic kids, originating out of drag balls. He describes attending balls, passing out condoms, coming up with a voguing safe sex message. Also, conference session on fundraising.
[VHS videotape]
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Box 16 V-124 c.2
"HOUSE" Safe Sex/ Fundraising
GHMC Assistant Coordinator for People of Color Prevention Programs talking at a conference about ways he's working to reach youth. He discovered a good place to reach these youth is through their Houses, social networks of Black and Hispanic kids, originating out of drag balls. He describes attending balls, passing out condoms, coming up with a voguing safe sex message. Also, conference session on fundraising.
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-467
"HOUSE" Safe Sex/ Fundraising
GHMC Assistant Coordinator for People of Color Prevention Programs talking at a conference about ways he's working to reach youth. He discovered a good place to reach these youth is through their Houses, social networks of Black and Hispanic kids, originating out of drag balls. He describes attending balls, passing out condoms, coming up with a voguing safe sex message. Also, conference session on fundraising.
[Use copy of V-124]
Box 17 V-125
End of Fundraising/ Brother to Brother Reading/Plenary Wilson Speech
[VHS videotape]
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Box 16 V-125 c.2
End of Fundraising/ Brother to Brother Reading/Plenary Wilson Speech
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Box 17 DVD-468
End of Fundraising/ Brother to Brother Reading/Plenary Wilson Speech
[Use copy of V-125]
Box 17 V-126
End of Fundraising/ Brother to Brother Reading/Plenary Wilson Speech
[VHS videotape]
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Box 17 V-127
Self Publishing
Interviews with a group of Black male writers about getting published. Rory (?) Buchanan, a single parent, poet, fiction writer from Brooklyn; Alan Miller, a poet and high school teacher from Oakland; Steven Corbin, a novelist, short fiction writer, essayist and teacher from New York City, author of No Easy Place to Be and Fragments That Remain; John (?) Gwen (?), writer from San Diego; and Mark Hale, staff writer for BLK and literary coordinator for DIVA, a multicultural lesbian, gay arts group in Los Angeles.
[VHS videotape]
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Box 16 V-127 c.2
Self Publishing
Interviews with a group of Black male writers about getting published. Rory (?) Buchanan, a single parent, poet, fiction writer from Brooklyn; Alan Miller, a poet and high school teacher from Oakland; Steven Corbin, a novelist, short fiction writer, essayist and teacher from New York City, author of No Easy Place to Be and Fragments That Remain; John (?) Gwen (?), writer from San Diego; and Mark Hale, staff writer for BLK and literary coordinator for DIVA, a multicultural lesbian, gay arts group in Los Angeles.
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-469
Self Publishing
Interviews with a group of Black male writers about getting published. Rory (?) Buchanan, a single parent, poet, fiction writer from Brooklyn; Alan Miller, a poet and high school teacher from Oakland; Steven Corbin, a novelist, short fiction writer, essayist and teacher from New York City, author of No Easy Place to Be and Fragments That Remain; John (?) Gwen (?), writer from San Diego; and Mark Hale, staff writer for BLK and literary coordinator for DIVA, a multicultural lesbian, gay arts group in Los Angeles.
[Use copy of V-127]
Box 17 V-128
End of Self Publishing/ Raw Eroticism
[VHS videotape]
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Box 16 V-128 c.2
End of Self Publishing/ Raw Eroticism
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Box 17 DVD-470
End of Self Publishing/ Raw Eroticism
[Use copy of V-128]
Box 17 V-129
House of Color/ Hill/ When He Has AIDS
Video about how the sexuality of people of color is fetishized and marginalized, including interviews with lesbian/gay/bisexual Asians, Native Americans, and other groups about how they found community. An address by Dr, Marjorie Hill, Mayor Koch's liaison to the lesbian/bisexual/gay community. Unidentified man speaking at a conference talking about how he dealt with his lover having AIDS and dying.
[VHS videotape]
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Box 16 V-129 c.2
House of Color/ Hill/ When He Has AIDS
Video about how the sexuality of people of color is fetishized and marginalized, including interviews with lesbian/gay/bisexual Asians, Native Americans, and other groups about how they found community. An address by Dr, Marjorie Hill, Mayor Koch's liaison to the lesbian/bisexual/gay community. Unidentified man speaking at a conference talking about how he dealt with his lover having AIDS and dying.
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-471
House of Color/ Hill/ When He Has AIDS
Video about how the sexuality of people of color is fetishized and marginalized, including interviews with lesbian/gay/bisexual Asians, Native Americans, and other groups about how they found community. An address by Dr, Marjorie Hill, Mayor Koch's liaison to the lesbian/bisexual/gay community. Unidentified man speaking at a conference talking about how he dealt with his lover having AIDS and dying.
[Use copy of V-129]
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Box 17 V-130
Speak for Yourself--A Videotape by Jim Hubbard: David France; Alan Klein; Karl Soehnlein; Maxine Wolfe; Sarah Schulman; Robert Garcia; Gregg Bordowitz
Robert's section begins circa 23 minutes into film. He declares that being half-Navajo, half-Mexican, and gay are the three things that identify who he is. He talks about losing his Hispanic and Navajo heritage because his parents wanted to assimilate. The only thing he hasn't lost is his gay identity, because he discovered that himself. He said he realized that the AIDS crisis is destroying this heritage.
[VHS videotape]
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Box 16 V-130 c.2
Speak for Yourself--A Videotape by Jim Hubbard: David France; Alan Klein; Karl Soehnlein; Maxine Wolfe; Sarah Schulman; Robert Garcia; Gregg Bordowitz
Robert's section begins circa 23 minutes into film. He declares that being half-Navajo, half-Mexican, and gay are the three things that identify who he is. He talks about losing his Hispanic and Navajo heritage because his parents wanted to assimilate. The only thing he hasn't lost is his gay identity, because he discovered that himself. He said he realized that the AIDS crisis is destroying this heritage.
[Beta videotape]
Box 17 DVD-472
Speak for Yourself--A Videotape by Jim Hubbard: David France; Alan Klein; Karl Soehnlein; Maxine Wolfe; Sarah Schulman; Robert Garcia; Gregg Bordowitz
Robert's section begins circa 23 minutes into film. He declares that being half-Navajo, half-Mexican, and gay are the three things that identify who he is. He talks about losing his Hispanic and Navajo heritage because his parents wanted to assimilate. The only thing he hasn't lost is his gay identity, because he discovered that himself. He said he realized that the AIDS crisis is destroying this heritage.
[Use copy of V-130]
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Box 17 DVD-17
Speak for Yourself--A Videotape by Jim Hubbard: David France; Alan Klein; Karl Soehnlein; Maxine Wolfe; Sarah Schulman; Robert Garcia; Gregg Bordowitz
Robert's section begins circa 23 minutes into film. He declares that being half-Navajo, half-Mexican, and gay are the three things that identify who he is. He talks about losing his Hispanic and Navajo heritage because his parents wanted to assimilate. The only thing he hasn't lost is his gay identity, because he discovered that himself. He said he realized that the AIDS crisis is destroying this heritage.
[Use copy of V-130]