The Outfest
Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation--a joint
effort between the University of California, Los
Angeles, and the Los Angeles gay and lesbian film
festival, Outfest--announced its largest contribution
to date on Thursday. The Legacy Project was handed more than
1,500 films and 3,000 videos from One National Gay and
Lesbian Archives, one of the oldest LGBT
organizations in the Western Hemisphere.
The films and
videos include lectures from seminal LGBT leaders like
Malcom Boyd, Harry Hay, Evelyn Hooker, Morris Kight, and
Steve Schulte. The donation more than doubles the
Legacy Project's holdings, which already contain one
of the world's largest publicly accessible
collections of LGBT films.
"The thousands of
hours of one-of-a-kind material deposited by the One
Archives represent a collective memory of our community,"
Outfest executive director Stephen Gutwillig said in a
release. "Together, UCLA, Outfest, and One have formed
a collaboration that will ensure the survival of LGBT
moving images for generations to come."
To celebrate the
donation, the Legacy Project will present "A Tribute
to the One Archives" on March 25 at 7 p.m. at the Billy
Wilder Theater in the Westwood district of Los
Angeles. The tribute will showcase highlights from the
One collection, rarities from the 1970s, and exclusive
video footage of historic events at the One Archives itself.
(The Advocate)