UCLA Librarian photographer. Dan Calder addressing the attendees, reception for UCLA Library exhibit, With Equal Pride: Lesbian & Gay Studies at UCLA. 1993. Black and white photograph, scanned copy
Dan Calder, UCLA professor of English and assistant dean of the humanities, was among the many faculty who began organizing for lesbian and gay social networks, benefits, studies, and library collections, beginning about 1989. He is shown from his back, addressing the crowd attending, which was one of the largest ever to assemble in the URL Lobby for a special event. It was possibly the largest (non rally) campus LGBT event up until that time.
In 1990 Lillian Faderman was a UCLA visiting professor of English. She suggested to the Library that it have exhibits on lesbian and gay topics. The Library then first brought together its lesbian and gay collections with a series of exhibits in 1991 in the Art Library, the College Library, the Dept. of Special Collections (2 cases), the Theater Arts Library, and the University Research Library Lobby (4 cases). The URL exhibit was done by Mary Greco, western European bibliographer. Shortly after, a major exhibit was planned in the URL Lobby and the Department of Special Collections, with a reception to open the exhibit. This was fostered by Gloria Werner, University Librarian, Karin Wittenborg, AUL for Collection Development, and David Zeidberg, head, Dept. of Special Collections. As a result of efforts at the time of the exhibit, papers were given by writer Paul Monette, the first person to give papers as an openly gay person, by writer Michael Nava, and by activist Morris Kight. Later Private Viewings have been organized, for example, April 7, 1998, with remarks by librarians and faculty: Rita Scherrei, Associate University Librarian, Personnel & Administrative Services, Christine Littleton, Professor of Law, James A. Schultz, Professor of German and Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program, and Ray Soto, Bibliographer in the Humanities.
- Luckenbill, Dan. "Out of the Closet and
Out of the Stacks: UCLA Library's Sources for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies"
[private view exhibit checklist]. Los Angeles, 1998.
- ___________.With Equal Pride:
Gay & Lesbian Studies at UCLA. Catalog of an exhibit, University Research
Library, January-March 1993 / by Dan Luckenbill; with a foreword by Lillian
Faderman. Los Angeles : Department of Special Collections, University Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.
- __________. "With Equal Pride: (Re)presenting UCLA Sources for Gay and Lesbian Studies. In: UCLA Librarian
v.46 no.1 (1993 Spring / Summer), 26-31.
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