Marsha Epstein Collection
Marsha Epstein (b. 1945) is a lifelong LGBT activist, a pioneering medical professional, and a community organizer. The collection contains both personal and professional materials representing Marsha Epstein's life. Included in the collection are personal and professional correspondence, research from throughout her professional medical practice, and materials she created or collected from Los Angeles-based communities of which she was a part including Jewish communities and LGBT activist communities.
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Lillian Faderman Papers
The Lillian Faderman papers contain materials related to the internationally-known lesbian historian's professional life. It includes drafts of her published papers and book reviews and manuscript and typescript versions of three of her books: Surpassing the Love of Men (1981); Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991) and Chloe Plus Olivia (1994). The collection also includes background research for her various publications; correspondence relating to her publications and speaking engagements; publicity materials; lesbian, gay and women's periodicals produced by now-defunct small presses and various organizations; and audio interviews with lesbian activist Barbara Gittings and artist Mariana Romo-Carmona.
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Diane F. Germain Collection
Diane F. Germain is a lesbian psychiatric social worker cartoonist with ties to activist communities in Vermont, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Not wanting any pieces of lesbian history to end up in a dumpster, she wrote down everything and saved and cataloged her own documents, as well as those given to her by other lesbians. In the late 1980s, while living in San Diego, Germain would often drive to Los Angeles to visit her sister, always bringing along a box of ephemera for the Mazer Archives. As a result, this collection includes pieces of many moments in lesbian history, including documents from the Califia conferences, cartoons published in a variety of lesbian newspapers, buttons, audio cassettes, video footage of a beauty pageant protest, a jean jacket complete with a peace sign patch stitched on, and even a copy of Germain’s master’s thesis. This collection represents an overview of life in the lesbian community in Southern California beginning in the 1980s.
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Donna Groman Collection
Donna Groman is a judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court. She has devoted her career to representing children, young adults, parents, and LGBTQ people. The collection contains t-shirts and ephemera from pride related events.
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Michele Kort Library
Michele Kort was an author, award-winning journalist, and feminist community leader. Her work focused on sports, music, culture, art and feminist issues. She was the senior editor of Ms. magazine for 13 years. The collection consists of selections from Michele Kort’s DVD, VHS, book, and periodical libraries.
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Los Angeles Commission on Assault Against Women Collection
The Los Angeles Commission on Assault Against Women (LACAAW), now Peace Over Violence, was a non-profit, feminist, Los Angeles-community-based organization founded in 1971. LACAAW provided education, prevention, and intervention services including peer counseling, a crisis hotline, self-defense trainings, and referral services for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. The bulk of the collection is comprised of informational and training materials from a 1987 training related to sexual violence, prevention, and survivor care.
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Mary Lucey and Nancy MacNeil Collection
Mary Lucey and Nancy MacNeil were dedicated activists fighting for the rights and fair treatment of women with HIV and AIDS. They were most active within ACT UP/LA (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/Los Angeles) and were two of the founders of Women Alive Coalition, an organization offering support and services for women with AIDS. The bulk of the collection consists of papers and photographs related to ACT UP/LA and clippings reporting on HIV/AIDS and ACT UP.
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Mazer Memory Project
The Mazer Memory Project features the Director of Communications, Angela Brinskele, describing 6 collections of the Mazer Archives and the Mazer Archives’ partnership with UCLA: Ester Bentley Collection, Margaret Porter Collection, Juanita Sanchez Collection, Dr. Marie Cartier Collection, Lillian Faderman Collection, and Mary Lucey and Nancy MacNeil Collection.
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Bronco Moonwater Collection
Bronco Moonwater was a professional football player with the Toledo Troopers women’s football team. The bulk of the collection is material related to The Toledo Troopers team including a signed t-shirt, a football helmet, and a bound book about the team, also signed.
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