Joe Garmeson papers, 1967 to 2000.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garmeson, Joe, compiler.

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--Legal status, laws, etc--South Africa.

Gay people.

Gay rights--South Africa.

Gay rights.

South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly. Select Committee on the Immorality Amendment Bill.

South Africa.

Garmeson, Joe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 manuscripts (1,559 pages)) : illustrations, photographs.

Summary:

Joe Garmeson was the secretary of the Legal Reform Fund, which was established in order to raise the necessary funds to secure professional legal representation to the Parliamentary Select Committee. This Committee was established to investigate the proposed Immorality Act Amendment Bill of 1967. Based on the Committee's recommendations a revised version of the Bill went through parliament in 1969. Joe Garmeson kept meticulous records relating to the Law Reform Fund and the 1968 Immorality Amendment Bill which were donated to the Gay Association of South Africa Library, and transferred to GALA in 1997. These records include correspondence, minutes, notes, articles and other documents. Other miscellaneous material includes a radio broadcast on homosexuality on audio tape and Garmeson's scrapbook of newspaper clippings. The GALA archivist has also added Garmeson's speech on the donation of his library to GALA in May 2000 as well as an interview with Graeme Reid in 1997. Also included in the collection are four personal photo albums donated by Garmeson, showing his family and childhood in the UK as well as his early years in South Africa (1948-1952) which show some rare photographs of gay social life from that time period.

Notes:

Date range of documents: 1967-2000.

Reproduction of the originals from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA).

Includes the following subcollections: Correspondence -- Finance -- Homosexual Law Reform Society -- Immorality Act Amendment Bill -- Interview -- Later Additions to Collection -- Legal Team -- Meetings and Minutes -- Miscellaneous -- Newspaper clippings (Canadian) -- Personal Papers - Will/Trust -- Photographs and Albums -- Questionnaire -- Radio -- Scrapbook -- Speech.

OCLC:

1164140820