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Alli Royce Soble photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS409
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of LGBTQ+ events and nightclubs taken by Alli Royce Soble. Images depict the annual Atlanta Pride Festival and Parade, the Easter Drag Races sponsored by the Armory, and a drag show at My Sister's Room. Of special note are photographs of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in Washington, D.C. All images were taken in Atlanta, Georgia, unless otherwise noted.

Dates: 1993-2000

Atlanta Freedom Marching Bands documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1112
Scope and Content

This collection contains financial, outreach, and organizational papers that document the founding and early years of the Atlanta Freedom Marching Band. Records include meeting minutes, incorporation records, bylaws, correspondence, bank information, expense reports, tax records, membership announcements, newsletters, and advertisements.

Dates: 1993-1998, undated

Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing papers and publications

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Collection number: ahc.MSS773
Scope and Content

This collection consists of papers and publications related to the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Atlanta, Georgia. Series I includes gay and lesbian publications from Atlanta,the Southeast, and nationwide. Series II consists of business and organization papers pertaining to gay rights and AIDS. Series III includes personal papers of gay and lesbian activists in Atlanta and Georgia.

Dates: 1957-2002, undated

Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS412
Scope and Contents This collection contains items collected by the Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing (ALGHT). Photographs include staff and events at bars and nightclubs such as the Tower Lounge and Sweet Gum Head; ALGHT's table at the Atlanta Pride Festival, where "The Time of Our Lives," an exhibition about LGBTQ+ history in Atlanta between the 1940s and 1990s, was on display; Olympics Out of Cobb protests, including one at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) headquarters; drag queens such...
Dates: approximately 1975-2001, undated

Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS962f
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Atalanta newsletters that recount organization and member updates, including meeting minutes, reports, and announcements. Newsletters also include local and national news about gay, lesbian, and women's rights, advertisements for lesbian-owned businesses and arts groups, and community updates. The collection also contains several Southern Feminist Library & Archives...
Dates: 1978-1986, undated

Atlanta's Unspoken Past oral history recordings

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Collection number: ahc.VIS178
Scope and Contents of the Records

The collection is comprised of ten interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original video recordings for each interview, and a DVD access copy of each.

Dates: 2004-2005

Atlanta's Unspoken Past oral history transcriptions

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Collection number: ahc.MSS994
Scope and Contents of the Records

The collection is comprised of eleven interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original audio recordings for each interview, and a CD access copy of each. The interviews with Billy Jones and Ginny Boyd are part of the Maria Helena Dolan collection (1999.142)

Dates: 1997, 2004-2005

Cathy Woolard papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1214
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials pertaining to Cathy Woolard's career on the Atlanta City Council, including campaign flyers, voter surveys, press clippings about her work, legal paperwork, and administrative binders. The bulk of documents are planning materials about the construction of the Atlanta BeltLine, such as financial and environmental studies, presentations, and magazines and publications. Also included are documents related to Woolard's service on the Atlanta March Committee for...
Dates: 1986-2013, undated

"Daddi Cole" Thomas conference badges and membership card

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Collection number: ahc.MSS855f
Scope and Content

This collection documents Cole "Daddi Cole" Thomas' conference presentations. Included are badges from the National Conference on LGBT Equality, Sex DownSouth Conference, Frolicon, Stars & Stripes in Leather, Black Beat, and Woodhull's Sexual Freedom summit. Also included is her membership card to Women In Leather International.

Dates: 2013-2017, undated

Dorothy A. Vogel photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS461
Scope and Contents This collection contains four albums containing photographs related to Dorothy Vogel's life. Images include family, friends, school trips, stylized portraits, and travel destinations such as the Grand Canyon; Yellowstone National Park; Oregon; Miami; New York; and Ontario, Canada. Also included are photographs of Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and United Service Organization (USO) events, dances, and women's basketball, as well as summer camps such as Camp Highland in Plum Lake,...
Dates: 1917-1960, undated

Fourth Tuesday photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS425
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of two Fourth Tuesday annual fundraising events, the Fall Scramble golf tournament and the Spring Fling party. Also included is a photograph of the organization's Board of Directors and an unidentified gathering of members.

Dates: approximately 1990-2000

Frances A. Pici visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS418
Scope and Contents This collection contains color slides and videos of LGBTQ+ activist events, performances, and sports. Included are images of two Atlanta lesbian softball teams, the Lorlei Ladies and the Tower Hotshots, as well as materials related to the Red Dyke Theatre and Lucina's Music performance venues. Also included are two activist events related to the Equal Rights Amendment (labeled as a picnic) and a gay rights march, both in Atlanta, Georgia. The videos depict performances by members of the Red...
Dates: approximately 1975-1990

Liz Throop and B. Joy Wasson papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1246
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from Liz Throop and B. Joy Wasson's LGBTQ+ advocacy. Included are financial planning materials and insurance policies for same-sex couples. Personal items include a Valentine's Day card, B. Joy Wasson’s resume, and a drawing notebook from Throop’s freshman year of college. Of particular note are a booklet and newspaper clippings from the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987. The collection also contains hand-made protest signs and...
Dates: 1977-2013, undated

Liz Throop and B. Joy Wasson visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS417
Scope and Contents This collection contains slides and photographs related to LGBTQ+ history in Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Included are negatives of the Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing's (ALGHT) table at the 1993 Atlanta Pride Festival, where "The Time of Our Lives," an exhibition about LGBTQ+ history in Atlanta between the 1940s and 1990s, was on display; slides of the 1977 protest in Colony Square against Anita Bryant during the Miss National Teenager pageant after she was named as...
Dates: 1977-1993, undated

Maria Helena Dolan photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS423
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials collected by Maria Helena Dolan that document her personal life and Atlanta LGBTQ+ community activist meetings and events such as Black Pride, sponsored by In The Life Atlanta (ITLA). Of special note are images related to a Forsyth County protest in response to the Ku Klux Klan's attack on civil rights marchers a week earlier during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Also included is an image of Ray Kluka, Chris Hagen, and Gil Robison as recipients...
Dates: 1954-2003, undated

Pamela Parker papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS950f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains newspaper clippings about Pamela Parker’s theatrical work, flyers for Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance productions, and tickets to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and the Atlanta Theatrical League’s The Boys in the Band.

Dates: 1981-1992

Pamela Parker photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS413
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of Atlanta lesbian-feminist community members, organizations, and events. Photographs include Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) members and events, many of which were taken in the ALFA House on McLendon Avenue; the 1981 Michigan Womyn’s Music Fest, held in Hesperia, Michigan; the 1980 Atlanta Pride Festival; WomanSong Theatre, a troupe, performing in Piedmont Park; the ALFA Omegas lesbian softball team, as well as the Tower Hot Shots, the Lorelei...
Dates: 1961-1981, undated

Paul Stone Atlanta Pride scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1236
Scope and Contents This collection contains three scrapbooks about Atlanta Pride created by Paul Stone, a board member of Atlanta Pride. Each scrapbook contains newspaper articles, letters, photographs, programs, posters, and other ephemera related to the 1991, 1992, and 1993 festivals. Of particular note is Atlanta Pride 20th anniversary memorabilia, t-shirt designs, and letters to elected officials asking for endorsement in the 1991 scrapbook. In addition, the 1992 scrapbook includes newspaper clippings...
Dates: 1991-1993

Southern Voice photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS415
Scope and Contents This collection contains images used for stories published by Southern Voice newspaper. Images include businesses, individuals, organizations, demonstrations and events, and photographs related to political issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender communities. Of particular note are demonstrations associated with ACT UP and the Cobb Citizens Coalition, as well as images of the Atlanta Pride Festival and Parade and Atlanta Black Pride....
Dates: approximately 1968-2010, bulk dates approximately 1990-2010

Vicki Vara papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS730f
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents, correspondence, and advertisements relating to Vicki Vara's management of Backstreet Atlanta. There are also full length LGBTQ publications, most of which contain ads for Backstreet.

Dates: 1977-2005, undated

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Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing (Ga.) 6
Atlanta Pride Festival 6
Atlanta Pride Committee 5
Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance 4
Backstreet Atlanta Discotheque (Ga.) 3
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Dolan, Maria Helena, 1954- 3
Jones, Billy, 1921-2003 3
McLemore, Charlene, 1946- 3
Vogel, Barbara, 1939-2013 3
ALFA Omegas (Softball team) 2
Adams, George H. 2
Armory (Bar : Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Atlanta Gay Center 2
Atlanta Historical Society 2
Brooks, Ronald G. 2
Charlie Brown 2
Cobb Citizens Coalition 2
Darsey, James 2
Hussain, Pat 2
In The Life Atlanta Inc. 2
Johnson, Douglas 2
Jones, Allen, 1937 June 4- 2
Kluka, Ray 2
Lorlei Ladies (Softball team) 2
My Sister's Room (Bar : Atlanta, Ga.) 2
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (2nd : 1987 : Washington, D.C.) 2
Parker, Pamela, 1955-1920 2
Penn, William S. 2
Phillips, Mace H., Jr. 2
Pici, Frances A., 1954?- 2
Southern Comfort Conference 2
St. John, Charles 2
Styles, Freddie 2
Throop, Liz, 1957- 2
Tower Hotshots (Softball team) 2
Wasson, B. Joy, 1956- 2
Weaver, Jon-Ivan 2
Weaver, William 2
Whittaker, William J. 2
Woolard, Cathy (Catheren M.), 1957- 2
ACT UP (Organization) 1
AID Atlanta (Organization) 1
AIDS Walk Atlanta 1
Abernathy, Brandon Ross, 1958-2001 1
Askew, Jeff D. 1
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 1
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. 1
Atlanta Black Pride 1
Atlanta Botanical Garden 1
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games 1
Atlanta Freedom Marching Band 1
Atlanta Freedom Marching Bands 1
Austin, John 1
Bell, Walter 1
Bennett, E. 1
Blake's on the Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Boyd, Virginia 1
Brown, Laura 1
Bryant, Anita 1
Burkhart's (Bar : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cash, Christina 1
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) 1
Charis Books and More, 1974- 1
Chenault, Wesley 1
Cole, Pamela 1
Cole, Thomas 1
Cracker Barrel (Firm) 1
Diamond Lil 1
Dina Jacobs 1
Dobbs, Guy 1
Enlight Atlanta (Organization) 1
First Tuesday Association for Lesbian and Gay Rights (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Forrester, Phillip, 1935-2016 1
Fourth Tuesday (Organization : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Frank, Barney, 1940- 1
Franklin, Shirley, 1945- 1
Garner, Joan P., 1951-2017 1
Gay Games 1
Gaydar, Inc. 1
Georgia Equality (Organization) 1
Gingrich, Newt 1
Graham, Jeff, 1964 or 1965- 1
Gregory, Layton 1
Halloway, Gene 1
Hardwick, Michael, 1954- 1
Helms, Jesse 1
Hooper, Scotti 1
Hotlanta River Expo (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Human Rights Campaign Fund (U.S.) 1
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 1
Johnston, Chip 1
Lady Aces (Softball team) 1
Lesbian Avengers (Organization) 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
Lily White 1
Lucina's Music (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Maloney, Mike 1
March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Biequal Rights and Liberation, Washington, 1993 1
Monger, Frank 1
Murphy, Terry 1
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