This collection contains research files and oral histories from Nan Alamilla Boyd’s groundbreaking history of queer San Francisco to 1965, “Wide Open Town.” Highlights of the collection include audiotapes of 41 separate interviews, some with transcripts; and photographs and archival materials donated by Boyd’s subjects, which date back to the 1930s.

4.8 linear feet (9 boxes, 2 oversize boxes)

Copyright has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society.