June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives

The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is a grass roots archive founded in 1981 in Oakland, California as the "West Coast Lesbian Collections". It is one of the largest archives in the world dedicated to collecting protecting and preserving lesbian and feminist women's history. 1985 the Archives moved to Southern California with the help of the Connexxus Women's Center[1] and into the home of June Mazer and her partner Bunny Mac Culloch in Altadena, California. They took care of the Archives until June's death from cancer in 1987. Bunny changed the name and continued to run the Archives with the help of volunteers. In 1989 the Archive was moved from Altadena into the Wherle Building in West Hollywood. The Archives has been run strictly by volunteers for twenty-eight of its thirty-two years and has continued on supported by private donors and the City of West Hollywood. The Archives has created an outreach and collection-building partnership with the UCLA Libraries.[2] In 2015 Wolfe Video donated its complete library of lesbian movies to the Archives.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Carmichael, Jr., James Vinson (1998). Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 168.
  2. ↑ "UCLA Digital Collections". digital2.library.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  3. ↑ Margolis, Harriet (2015-08-01). "Wolfe Video Donates 100 Lesbian Films to June Mazer Lesbi | Women and Hollywood". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2015-08-05.

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