Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Klein, Alan
	Title:	Alan Klein Papers
	Dates:	ca. 1980-1995
	Abstract:	The Alan Klein Papers represent Klein's, a New York based public relations consultant and long-time gay activist, collection of materials that chronicle the Gay-rights movement. The collection includes correspondence, flyers, periodicals, press clippings, T-shirts and other materials which focus on the activities of Act Up (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), and Queer Nation, among others.
	Quantity:	4.5 linear feet (6 boxes)
	Call Phrase:	Alan Klein Papers

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Historical/Biographical Note:

Alan Klein, a New York based public relations consultant, has been a long-time gay activist and was recently the Communications Director at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He collected these materials which chronicle the gay-rights struggle through the 1980's and early 1990's.

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Scope and Content Note

The Alan Klein Papers are a part of the Downtown Collection at the Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU Libraries, housing nearly 200,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel, and the post-1975 Downtown New York scene.

The Alan Klein Papers are a diverse collection of materials, including correspondence, fact sheets, flyers, healthcare reports, minutes, periodicals, press clippings, T-shirts and other materials, which collectively document the activities of Act Up (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and Queer Nation, as well as the social and political issues central to their causes. Throughout the processing of these papers, Klein's original folder groupings and titles were maintained as much as possible. These folders were then filed alphabetically under the series titles Act Up, Queer Nation, AIDS, and General Files based on the content of their materials.

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Arrangement
	Folders are arranged alphabetically.
	The files are grouped into six series.

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Related Material at the Fales Library and Special Collections

Downtown Collection

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Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials but that have been physically separated or removed.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival materials.

Use Restrictions

Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of Fales Library and Special Collections. For more information, contact
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012Phone: (212) 998-2596
Fax: (212) 995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu

URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm

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Access Points
	Subject Names:
		Klein, Alan
	Subject Organizations:
		Aids Coalition to Unleash Power.
		Queer Nation (Organization).
		United States. Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic.
	Subject Topics:
		AIDS (Disease) and mass media.
		AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.
		Gay liberation movement.
	Subject Places:
		New York (State)--New York
	Document Types:
		Clippings
		Correspondence
		Magazines (periodicals)
		Minutes
		Official reports
		Reports
		T-shirts
		fliers

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Administrative Information

Provenance

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Alan Klein Papers; MSS 118 ; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections , New York University Libraries.

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Container List

[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]

Series I: Act Up
Scope and Content:
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	Action Committee	undated
1	2	Act Now	undated
1	3	Act Now-Clippings	undated
1	4	Act Up Report	undated
1	5	Administrative Files (Calendars, Agendas, Proposals)	undated
1	6	AIDS Drugs Now, 5/2/1989	1989
1	7	Albany March, 1990	1990
1	8	Chapters (other than New York City)-Clippings	undated
1	9	Church Action-Stop the Church	undated
1	10	Contact Lists	undated
1	11	Coordinating Committee	undated
1	12	Coordinating Committee Proposals	undated
1	13	Correspondence	undated
1	14	"Did You See?" Files	undated
1	15	Election 1988-Clippings	1988
1	16	Fact Sheets	undated
1	17	Fact Sheets	undated
1	18	Fact Sheets	undated
1	19	Fact Sheets	undated
1	20	Fact Sheets re: Other Groups	undated
1	21	FDA Action	undated
1	22	Features re: Act Up	undated
1	23	Features re: Act Up-Radical America, vol. 20, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 1986	1986
1	24	Flyers	undated
1	25	Gay Freedom Ride	undated
1	26	Gay Pride '89	1989
1	27	General (Membership Packet, Minutes, Proposals, Administrative Files)	undated
1	28	Housing Issues re: People with AIDS (PWAs)	undated
1	29	Leaflets	undated
1	30	Leaflets (Other Groups)	undated
1	31	Media Committee	undated
1	32	Media Committee Press Releases	undated
1	33	Montreal International Conference on AIDS, June 1989	1989
1	34	Montreal Manifesto-A National AIDS Treatment Research Agenda	undated
1	35	National March on Washington, October 1987	1987
1	36	New Jersey Chapter	undated
1	37	New Jersey Chapter	undated
1	38	New Jersey Chapter-Outcry	undated
1	39	New York City	undated
1	40	New York Post Editorial by Karl Soehn re: Article Entitled "The Man Who Gave Us AIDS"	undated
1	41	Outreach Committee	undated
1	42	Republican and Democratic Conventions	undated
1	43	Speakers Bureau Subcommittee	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	1	Target City Hall	undated
2	2	Target City Hall: An AIDS Activist's Guide to New York City in 1989	1989
2	3	Target City Hall-Clippings	undated
2	4	Target City Hall-Flyers	undated
2	5	Target City Hall-Mayor Ed Koch's Response	undated
2	6	Target City Hall-Press Packets	undated
2	7	Wall Street	undated
2	8	Wall Street-Criminal Court Case	undated
2	9	Wall Street-Criminal Court Case	undated
2	10	Weekly Reports	undated
2	11	Zaps/Actions	undated

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Series II: Queer Nation
Scope and Content:
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	12	Chronology	undated
2	13	Contacts	undated
2	14	Correspondence	undated
2	15	Demonstrational Graphic Designs	undated
2	16	Flyers and Fact Sheets	undated
2	17	Minutes/Agendas	undated
2	18	Press Clippings	undated

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Series III: AIDS
Scope and Content:
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	19	Addiction (Drugs)	undated
2	20	Advocates-Pride Guides	undated
2	21	American Foundation for AIDS Research	undated
2	22	Antibody Testing-Clippings	undated
2	23	Art and AIDS	undated
2	24	Articles	undated
2	25	ATEU (AIDS Treatment Evaluation Units)	undated
2	26	Clippings	undated
2	27	Community Based Clinical Trials	undated
2	28	Correspondence	undated
2	29	Demonstrational Graphic Designs	undated
2	30	Demonstrational Graphic Designs	undated
2	31	Discrimination	undated
2	32	Discrimination-Clippings	undated
2	33	Education	undated
2	34	Education-Clippings	undated
2	35	Editorials	undated
2	36	Experimental Drugs	undated
2	37	Experimental Drugs	undated
2	38	Gays and the Catholic Church	undated
2	39	General Information	undated
2	40	General Clippings	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	1	Global Perspective-Clippings	undated
3	2	Glossary of AIDS Drug Trials, Testing, and Treatment Issues	undated
3	3	Healthcare Reports	undated
3	4	Healthcare System-Clippings	undated
3	5	HIV Antibody Testing	undated
3	6	HIV/Syphilis Connection-Clippings	undated
3	7	IV Drug Use-Clippings	undated
3	8	Klein, Alan. AIDS and the Media for the AIDS Seminar, 12/17/1986	1986
3	9	Legislation	undated
3	10	Legislation-Clippings	undated
3	11	Media-Critiques of Media Representation of AIDS	undated
3	12	Meyers, Woody-Clippings	undated
3	13	Minorities and AIDS-Clippings	undated
3	14	Name Project Quilt	undated
3	15	New York City AIDS Budget	undated
3	16	Presidential Commission on AIDS	undated
3	17	Presidential Commission on AIDS	undated
3	18	Presidential Commission on AIDS	undated
3	19	Press Clippings	undated
3	20	Prevention	undated
3	21	Prison-Clippings	undated
3	22	Quarantine/Drastic Measures--Clippings	undated
3	23	Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, 6/1988	1988
3	24	Right-wing Reaction-Clippings	undated
3	25	Spending Budgets City/Federal	undated
3	26	Spending/Funding-Clippings	undated
3	27	St. Patrick's-Clippings	undated
3	28	Television and AIDS	undated
3	29	Transmission-Clippings	undated
3	30	Treatment/Care-Clippings	undated
3	31	Treatment and Data Updates	undated
3	32	Treatment Facts	undated
3	33	Women and AIDS	undated
3	34	Women and AIDS	undated
3	35	Women and AIDS-Handbook	undated

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Series IV: General Files
Scope and Content:
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	36	Civil Rights/Federal Government-Clippings	undated
3	37	Domestic Partnership-Clippings	undated
3	38	Gay Rights/Homophobia	undated
3	39	Gay Rights/Homophobia-Clippings	undated
3	40	Klein, Alan-Personal Correspondence	undated
3	41	Klein, Alan-Resume	undated
3	42	Outing Articles	undated
3	43	Notebook-Labeled "Jewish American Writers"	undated
3	44	Notebook-Labeled "Pop Culture"	undated
3	45	Note Cards	undated

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Series V: Periodicals
Scope and Content:
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	1	The Advocate: no. 455, 7/16/1986 no. 461, 12/9/1986 no. 557, 9/14/1990.	1986-1990
4	2	Artforum International, Oct. 1989	1989
4	3	Capital Gay, no. 415, 10/20/1989.	1989
4	4	Guardian Supplement on Lesbian and Gay Liberation. Summer, 1989.	1989
4	5	Gay Community News: vol. 15, no. 4, Aug. 2-8, 1987, vol. 15, no. 27, Jan. 24-30, 1988, vol. 15, no. 31, Feb. 21-27, 1988	1987-1988
4	6	Gay Community News: vol. 15, no. 40, April 24-May 7, 1988, vol. 16, no. 13, Oct. 9-15, 1988, vol. 16, no. 47, Jun. 18-24, 1989 vol. 17, no. 48, Jun. 24-30, 1990	1988-1990
4	7	The Face, no. 98, June, 1988.	1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	1	The New Common Good. 4/1988.	1988
5	2	Newsweek: 1/13/1986, 8/10/1987, 3/12/1990.	1986-1990
5	3	New Youth Connections, Dec., 1987.	1987
5	4	New York: 8/11/1986, 5/14/1990, 11/12/1990, 2/17/1992.	1986-1992
5	5	Next, vol. 1, no. 48, 11/16/1988.	1988
5	6	Outrage, no. 63, Aug., 1988.	1988
5	7	People, 11/5/1990.	1990
5	8	Queers, Read This	undated
5	9	Rolling Stone, no. 483, 9/25/1986; no. 573, 3/8/1990.	1986-1990
5	10	Spin vol. 3, no. 7, Nov.-Dec., 1987 vol. 4, no. 10, Jan., 1989.	1987-1989
5	11	The Volunteer, vol. 3, no. 6	undated

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Series VI: T-Shirts
Scope and Content:
Box	Folder	Title	Date
6		Five T-Shirts	undated

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