With over 17,000 holdings in our collection, the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation has established itself as the leading archive for LGBT media preservation.
Here are a few sample areas:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Collection (1965-1999)
This Collection consists of film and video materials from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the world’s largest research library and archive devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) concerns. The Collection features film and video materials that reflect the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, including interviews with pioneers of the LGBT movement such as Jim Kepner, Dorr Legg, Morris Kight, Pat Rocco, Stewart Szidak, Bob Basker, Cliff Anchor, Sarah Dreher and Samuel Steward. Other notable materials included are mental hygiene films, AIDS awareness videos from the Los Angeles County AIDS Office, Christopher Street West parades in Los Angeles, gay protests in Washington D.C. and the film and video collection of female impressionist Charles Pierce (1926-1999). The collection also includes erotica and sexually explicit adult films and video.
For additional information, consult the Collection's Archive Catalog record.
Download an informal list of approximately 1,500 films and 3,000 video holdings in the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Collection of film and video at UCLA as a PDF document or an Excel spreadsheet.
Download the PDF transcript of an interview with Pat Rocco from 1983. (Interviewer, Jim Kepner, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives)
Download the PDF transcript of a lecture by Lillian Faderman, internationally-known scholar of lesbian history and literature. (1989-90 lecture series, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives)
GLAAD Trans and Intersex Media Collection (1984, 1992, 1999-2006)
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is a non-profit organization of LGBT activism that is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. GLAAD was founded in 1985 in New York City in direct response to allegedly inaccurate, defamatory and sensationalized coverage of the AIDS epidemic by the New York post. GLAAD's influence soon spread to Los Angeles where organizers began working with the entertainment industry to change the way gay men and lesbians were portrayed on screen. One of GLAAD's more visible programs is the annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honor individuals and projects in the mainstream media and entertainment industries for their fair, accurate, inclusive and favorable representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives.
This Collection of reference videocassettes and DVDs documents GLAAD's designation of positive and defamatory media potrayals of trans and intersex people. The collection consists predominantly of television entertainment programming such as the 2003 "Court TV" coverage of the Michael Kantares trial (a female-to-male transexual seeking custody of his children), 2002 media coverage of the killing of transgendered teen Gwen Araujo and portrayals of transgender and intersex people in made-for-TV movies, documentaries and television series such as "The Sopranos" (1999-2007), "Ally McBeal" (1997-2002), "Friends" (1994-2004), "Nip/tuck" (2003-), "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986-), "Dr. Phil" (2002-), "Entourage" (2004-) and "Ugly Betty" (2006-). The collection consists of 1/2-inch VHS videocassettes, 1/2-inch Betacam SP videocassettes and DVDs.
Collection List: Download an informal listing of approximately 285 videocassettes and 175 DVDs holdings in the GLAAD Collection at UCLA as a PDF document or an Excel spreadsheet.
Outfest Television Holdings
In addition to feature films and shorts, the Legacy Collection includes television programs, public service announcements, commercials, music videos and electronic press kits.
Download the Outfest Television Study Guide.
“The Legacy Project insures queer mediamakers that the traces of our work, images, efforts and stories will stay available to history.”
-Alexandra Juhasz
Alexandra Juhasz: Women of Vision
The Legacy Collection includes unedited oral history interviews conducted by media scholar Alexandra Juhasz for her documentary Woman of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film & Video (1998). These interviews with independent and experimental film and video filmmakers offer a detailed history of feminism and feminist film and video, from the 1950s to the present. Transcripts of the interviews are also available for study.
Download a list of the interviews. For a summary of each interview, and additional information on the interviewees, consult the Archive Catalog record.
Pat Rocco Collection (ca. 1948-2000)
A collection of gay erotic shorts, home movies and other material, approximately 700 items.
Pioneering activist and filmmaker Pat Rocco produced short-form gay erotica in the 1960s that was widely embraced by the gay community, and received positive reviews from the mainstream press, including "Variety," the "Los Angeles Times," and "Playboy" magazine. Rocco's prolific output of erotic films slowed in the early 1970s as market preferences shifted toward hardcore fare. In the late 1960s through the 1980s, Rocco shot historically important footage of gay demonstrations, parades, marches, festivals and events, providing some of the only existing moving image documentation of the major beginnings of the gay rights movement in the U.S.
The collection features Pat Rocco's gay erotic shorts, features, documentaries, and home movies including footage of gay pride parades, demonstrations, and events and festivals. Films include Yes (ca. 1968), Disneyland discovery (1969), Let there be boys (1969-1970), Sign of Protest (1970), Sex and the single gay (1970), Mondo Rocco (1970), Drifter (1974), and We were there (1976), Rocco's documentary about gay pride events in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the U.S. bicentennial year.
Download an informal listing of over 700 holdings in the Pat Rocco Collection as a PDF document or an Excel spreadsheet.
Download the PDF transcript of an interview with Pat Rocco from 1983. (Interviewer, Jim Kepner, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives)
Andre Burke Collection
This collection of films by writer-director Andre Burke includes award-winning works such as the experimental video "A" (1986), a controversial evocation of AIDS hysteria, and Carrier (1984), a super-8 postmodern odyssey across the streets of Los Angeles. The collection also includes Burke's stark black and white drama, "Pleas," which gained notoriety at the 1987 Berlin Film Festival with its graphic depictions of erotic bondage.
Burke's films have been featured at such diverse venues as the Torino Festival Giovani, Kijkhuis Video Festival in The Hague, AFI Los Angeles Video Festival, Collective For Living Cinema, the New Museum, Intermedia Arts Foundation, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Los Angeles Municipal Museum and others. Burke's honors include first prize of the "Sony-Visions of U.S." competition, the AFI Student Video Competition and others. He received his Master's Degree in Film Production from UCLA, his BA in physics from Harvard University, and studied computer science at the University of Paris with a fellowship from the Rotary Foundation.
Download an informal listing of Andre Burke Collection as a PDF document.
