Materials do not circulate, but may be used in the Special Collections reading room. Materials will be retrieved from and returned to storage areas by staff members.
Please check with the curator regarding copyright status of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
ONE Institute papers, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
The ONE Institute papers were a gift of the Friends of the Tretter Collection.
The collection is sorted by previous names of the organization.
In 1942, Jim Kepner began the first Gay and Lesbian archives in Los Angeles, and it was incorporated as the International Gay and Lesbian Archives in 1979. Kepner was also responsible for establishing another Gay and Lesbian library/archives, the ONE Institute. In 1994, the International Gay and Lesbian Archives and the ONE Institute merged to become the institution it is today. Duing the 1980s, the independent ONE Institute was in financial straights and was eventually relocated to the University of Southern California, where it is currently housed.
Its mission states: "ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives honors the past, celebrates the present, and enriches the future of all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. We foster acceptance of sexual and gender diversity by supporting education and research about our heritage and experience worldwide. ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is dedicated to collecting, preserving, documenting, studying, and communicating our history, our challenges, and our aspirations." The collection contains almost 20,000 books, over 6,000 periodicals, audio/visual materials and special collections retained because of their historical significance and research value.
Collection contains publications, pamphlets, correspondence, meeting minutes, flyers, clippings and papers regarding the administrative and general history of the ONE Institute.
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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection.
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