Scope and Contents
The collection contains minutes and correspondence, fundraising and other financial records and reports, artifacts such as posters and buttons, candidate information, membership and supporter lists, and videos of events including Lucille Hart dinners and government sessions.
Dates
- 1983-1998
Creator
- Right to Privacy (Organization) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time. Collection includes sound recordings, moving images, and digital files to which access is restricted. Access to these materials is governed by repository policy and may require the production of listening or viewing copies. Researchers requiring access must notify Special Collections and University Archives in advance and pay fees for reproduction services as necessary.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
In 1982, Terry Bean, John Baker, Keeston Lowery, and Dana Weinstein started a new political action committee and a non-profit organization called Right to Privacy; the organization later became known as Right to Pride. A description of their mission statement states that the organization is "dedicated to ensuring full human and civil rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual Oregonians."
The organization also inaugurated the first Lucille Hart fund-raising dinner in 1982, named after the first transgender man to undergo gender affirmation surgery in Oregon, Dr. Alan L. Hart (1890-1962). In 1995, this dinner became known as the Right to Pride Dinner.
Extent
48 linear feet (36 containers) : 31 record storage boxes, 1 clam shell box, 1 manuscript box, and 1 small box.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Right to Pride is a political action committee and a non-profit organization "dedicated to ensuring full human and civil rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual Oregonians." The collection contains minutes and correspondence, fundraising and other financial records and reports, artifacts such as posters and buttons, candidate information, membership and supporter lists, and videos of events including Lucille Hart dinners and government sessions.
Arrangement
Material within this collection may have little to no intellectual or physical arrangement. Any arrangement may have derived from the records' creators or custodians. It may be necessary to look in multiple places for the same types of materials.
Processing Information
Collection processed by staff, 2000.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection received a basic level of processing including minimal to no organization and rehousing.
Description information is drawn in part from information supplied with the collection and initial surveys of the contents.
Box lists are generalizations and should be used as a starting point to locate materials. For example, a box labeled “correspondence” may contain mostly correspondence, but other materials such as meeting minutes or speeches may be found in the same box.
Folder titles are based on those created by the creators or previous custodians. Titles have not all been verified against the contents of the folders. In some cases, staff supplied folder titles during initial processing.
- Artifacts Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Campaign literature Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Financial records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Gay liberation movement -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gay rights -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gays -- Political activity -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gays and Lesbians Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Oregon -- Politics and government -- 1951- Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Political action committees -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Political campaigns -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Right to Pride (Organization)
- Right to Privacy (Organization)
- Sexual minorities -- Political activity -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Video recordings (physical artifacts) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Source
- Right to Pride (Organization) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Right To Pride Records
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Tanya Parlet
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
