There are also recordings of meetings (series 2.0) and radio talks shows (subseries 5.2) that document the internal developments in the gay movement and social attitudes towards homosexuality during this period. These sources mainly document developments in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The interviews with Harry Hay and James Kepner (in subseries 1.1 and 1.3) are especially noteworthy for their extensive detailed recollections of gay culture in the decades prior to 1970. Information on the gay movement in the 1950s and 1960s is found primarily in the interviews, which also provide some data on the gay culture of the 1930s and 1940s.
These materials document the development of an underground gay subculture in the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of the gay rights movement after the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the evolution of gay and lesbian communities with their own distinct cultures in the 1970s and 1980s.
