Archival Collections

Blood Sisters Archives

The Blood Sisters Archives digital collection is comprised of materials from 6 individual collections from Lambda Archives of San Diego that held information about the Blood Sisters, a group of Lesbians from the San Diego Democratic Club's Women's Caucus who organized blood drives on behalf of Gay men during the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

Diane Germain Archives

Diane F. Germain was a French-American lesbian-feminist psychiatric social worker and a notable cartoonist. She conducted the Lesbian History Project and was one of the founding members of Dykes on Hikes, The Lesbian Referral Services, Beautiful Lesbian Thespians, and California Women's Art Collective. She was an early principal member of the San Diego Lesbian Organization and a collective member of both Las Hermanas, a women's cultural center and coffee-house, and the Califia Community, a feminist educational retreat. She worked at Lambda Archives throughout the 1990s interviewing women for history and gathering collections.

L1990.01 Jess Jessop Collection

Digitized documents from Robert Hall "Jess" Jessop, a notable LGBT rights activist in San Diego (1970's - 1990), co-founder of the Gay Center for Social Services (now the San Diego LGBTQ Community Center), founder of the Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego (now Lambda Archives of San Diego).