Gay leaders at police station

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Al Gordon, looking to challenge the unequal enforcement of sex laws in Los Angeles, persuaded Morris Kight to make a citizen arrest of three couples; Jeanne Cordova and Barbara Gehrke, Reverend Troy Perry and Steve Jordan, and Jeanne Barney and Frank Brighamand. The photograph captures Al Gordon and Morris Kight attempting to turn in the "Felon 6" to the police at the Rampart Police Station. The event was witnessed by community leaders Pat Underwood (left at counter), W. Dorr Legg (to Pat's left), Al Gordon (in front of officer), Reverend Troy Perry (behind Al), Morris Kight (black jacket and glasses), Steve Jordon (sunglasses), Frank Brighamand (black tie), Barbara Gehrke, and Jeanne Barney (right). In 1975, Willie Brown's bill to reform the California sex laws passed with the help of Senate Majority Leader George Moscone and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally. July 1974.

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Title Gay leaders at police station

Subject Gay activists--California--Los Angeles (lcsh), Gays--Legal status, laws, etc. (lcsh), Lesbian activists (lcsh), Police stations (lcsh)

Tags etc.,Gay activists--California--Los Angeles,Gays--Legal status,laws,Lesbian activists,OAI-PMH Harvest,Police stations

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Type images

Format image/tiff (imt), photographs (aat)

Source ONE Archives: Photographs (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1974-07

Creator Pat Rocco (photographer)

Contributor Coll2007-006 Pat Rocco photographs and papers (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771; fax (213) 741-0220

Rights Image is displayed for education and personal research only. Reuse requires signed permission from ONE Archives and Pat Rocco.

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-89

Identifier 2007006_047.tif (filename), one-c4-89 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 89

Unique identifier UC12246592

Legacy Identifier 2007006_047.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
51.5 cm × 40.4 cm at 300dpi

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Title ONE Archives: Photographs

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

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