Index of Historical Material

HIC founder Don Slater began collecting materials pertaining to the history of homosexual rights in the United States when he helped to launch ONE magazine in the fall of 1952, making his collection the oldest formally established homophile archives in the United States.

Slater continued to collect and organize these items through in his role as Editor of ONE and Tangents magazines until his death on February 14, 1997, when the collection’s care fell to Jim Schneider, Joseph Hansen, Billy Glover, and the other Directors of the HIC.

Where noted, these materials are curated in the HIC Collection, a subset of the Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender curated as a Special Collection at Oviatt Library of the California State University, Northridge, where they are available for public perusal.

Don Slater, reading in the Tangent Group office on Cahuenga Blvd., circa 1966