George Raya oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-raya
Scope and Content of Collection
Sound recording of interview with gay rights and labor activist George Raya, conducted by Craig Scott. This oral history was conducted as part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Oral History Project. In his interview, Raya discusses a number of gay union activists and his involvement in union organizing, lobbying, and gay rights activism both at the local and national level, which began while he was a student at Sacramento State University in the late 1960s.
Dates
- 2011 August 8
Creator
- Raya, George (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
1 Files
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Interview with gay rights and labor activist George Raya, conducted by Craig Scott.
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Acquisition Information
Interview conducted by Craig Scott, 2011.
Biography
George Raya attended Sacramento State University, where he first got involved in union organizing. While a student, he founded the Society for Homosexual Freedom (SHF) and in a landmark case, successfully sued the university for the right to have SHF recognized as an official LGBT campus organization in 1971. Raya attended University of California, Berkeley, for law school, but did not graduate. He went on to work as a liaison for the Society for Individual Rights (SIR) to the California State Legislature. He lobbied the California State Legislature for the consensual sex (AB 489) and employment discrimination (AB 633) bills, and was a part of the 1977 National Gay Task Force meeting at the White House.
Creator
- Raya, George (Person)
- Scott, Craig (Person)
- Title
- George Raya Oral History
- Author
- Finding aid created by Marissa Friedman
- Date
- 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
Contact:
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu