In honor of National Coming Out Day on October 11th, I’d like to highlight a new resource for researchers. Earlier this summer, UCLA’s Film and Television Archive celebrated its 50th anniversary and as part of that celebration launched the LGBT Research Portal, In the Life.
In the Life was television’s longest running LGBT news program premiering in 1992 and continuing for twenty years. The producers of In the Life requested that the UCLA Film and Television Archive become the home for this collection.
In addition to these television episodes that captured significant, historical events and news in the LGBT community over that twenty year span, the portal also includes:
- The Time of Our Lives: In the Life – America’s LGBT News Magazine, by Stephen Tropiano, Ithaca College
- Pat Rocco Oral History – 1983 (activist and filmmaker)
- Lillian Faderman Lecture (LGBT scholar)
- LGBT media, history and advocacy resources
“Preserving and providing public access to LGBT media materials is important not only for scholars, researchers, filmmakers and historians worldwide but also for the broader society,” said Jan-Christopher Horak, director of UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Graml, Kelly. "Groundbreaking Television Coverage of LGBT Milestones Now Online." UCLA Newsroom. UCLA, 30 June 2015. Web. 25 Sept. 2015.
To learn more about In the Life and related projects read UCLA’s Newsroom article, Groundbreaking television coverage of LGBT milestones now online, and check out the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBT Moving Image Preservation webpage.