Descriptive Summary
Lillene H. Fifield papers
1973-2003
(bulk
1973-1987)
Coll2007-014
Fifield, Lillene H.,
1941-
9 archive cartons + 1 oversize
box + 1 oversize flat (3.4 linear feet).
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90007
Languages
represented in the collection: English
Access
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Preferred Citation
Box #, folder #, Lillene H. Fifield papers, Coll2007-014, ONE National
Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Lillene H. Fifield, October 22, 2005, and June 30, 2007.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Michael P. Palmer, October 2007.
Biography
Lillene Henrietta Fifield, social worker, psychotherapist, and lesbian
activist, was born in Los Angeles on October 28, 1941, and spent many of her
early years in Kansas City, Missouri. Active in civil rights issues since high
school, she became active in the gay and lesbian movement after coming out at
age 19. She earned her B.A. with honors from California State University Los
Angeles in 1971, and her MSW with honors from the University of Southern
California, where she was the first openly lesbian student, in 1973. Fifield
served as research associate at the Regional Research Institute in Social
Welfare, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, from 1972 to
1975, the year her pioneering research on alcoholism in the gay and lesbian
community was published. After maintaining a private practice in clinical
social work from 1976 to 1979, Fifield moved in 1980 to Roseburg, Oregon, where
she was a psychiatric social worker for Douglas County Mental Health. Fifield
became involved with the Gay Community Services Center in Los Angeles in
November 1971, becoming its principal grant writer; and serving as
Vice-Chairman of its Board of Directors in 1974/1975. She also served as first
co-chairwoman of the California Women's Commission on Alcoholism, and on the
Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Alcoholism Advisory Board, the
California Institute for Human Sexuality, and the California Alcoholism
Foundation. She was named Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles gay community in
1978, and delivered keynote speeches at the National Council on Alcoholism
Annual Forum in Seattle in 1980, at the San Francisco Conference on Alcoholism
in the Gay Community in 1985, at and the second National Conference of the
National Association of Lesbian & Gay Alcoholism Professionals at Chicago
in 1987.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises reports, drafts, notes, publications,
correspondence, research files, audio and videotapes, and other materials
documenting the career of social worker, psychotherapist, and lesbian activist
Lillene H. Fifield (born 1941), relating in particular to her studies of
alcoholism in the Los Angeles gay and lesbian community, her involvement with
the establishment and early years of both the Los Angeles Gay Community
Services Center (now the L. A. Gay & Lesbian Center) and the Alcoholism
Center for Women, and her participation in the International Women's Year and
the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977. The collection also
contains several videotapes documenting the life and career of gay activist
Morris Kight (1919-2003); a pocket diary/appointment calendar, several open
reel audio tapes of Lesbian music, and other materials relating to Fifield's
lover and fellow lesbian activist, Daphne Hatfield (1937-2006); and a cartoon
of gay actor and activist Justin Smith (1921-1986). The collection is divided
into 10 series: (1) Writings; (2) Alcoholism; (3) Gay Community Services
Center; (4) Research; (5) International Women's Year; (6) Daphne Hatfield; (7)
Photographs; (8) Printed Materials; (9) Audio and Video Materials; and (10)
Ephemera, Memorabilia, and Artwork.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Alcoholism Center for Women (Los
Angeles, Calif.)
Alcoholism counseling
Community health services--California
Fifield, Lillene H., 1941-
Gay & Lesbian Community Services
Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Gay and Lesbian Community Services
Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Gay Community Services Center (Los
Angeles, Calif.)
Gays--Alcohol use
Hatfield, Daphne,
1937-2006
Kight, Morris, 1919-2003
L. A. Gay & Lesbian
Center
Lesbians--Alcohol use
Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian
Center
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian
Center
Smith, Justin, 1921-1986
Social work with lesbians
Related Material
L. A. Gay & Lesbian Center Records, Coll2007-010, ONE National Gay
& Lesbian Archives.
Collection Contents
Series 1.
Writings
1975-1987
1 : 1 - 12
12 folders
Series Scope and Content
The bulk of this series consists of Fifield's published study of
alcoholism in the gay and lesbian community,
On My Way to Nowhere (1975); a condensed
edition,
Alcoholism and the Gay Community (1977);
several conference papers derived from the study; and several speeches on
alcoholism given by Fifield between 1980 and 1987.
Fifield, Lillene.
On my way to nowhere; alienated, isolated,
drunk. An analysis of gay alcohol abuse & an evaluation of alcoholism
rehabilitation services for the Los Angeles gay community
July 10,
1975 1 : 1 - 4
Copy 1 (annotated)
July 10,
1975 1 : 1 - 2
2 folders
Copy 2
July 10,
1975 1 : 3 - 4
2 folders
Fifield, Lillene, and Latham, J. David.
Alcoholism and the gay community
(preliminary draft). Paper presented at California State Psychological
Association Convention, Los Angeles
March 1977
1 : 5
Fifield, Lillene.
Alcoholism and the gay community
(preliminary draft). Paper presented at the National Drug Abuse Conference, San
Francisco
1977
1 : 6
Fifield, Lillene; Latham, J. David; Phillips, Christopher.
Alcoholism in the gay community. The price
of alienation, isolation, & oppression. Los Angeles: Gay Community
Services Center
1977
1 : 7 - 8
Printed edition
1977
1 : 7
Typescript edition
1977
1 : 8
Fifield, Lillene; DeCresenzo, Teresa A.; Latham, J. David.
Alcoholism and the gay community.
Journal of Homosexuality
1978
1 : 9
Alcoholism chapter for book
No date
1 : 10
Miscellaneous writings
No date
1 : 11
Speeches
1980,
1985,
1987
1 : 12
Series 2.
Alcoholism
1974-1984,
2003
2 : 1 - 3 : 7 ; 7 : 1 - 3
(oversize)
22 folders
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of reports, drafts, conference and workshop
materials, correspondence, photocopies, and other materials created and
acquired by Fifield in the course of her research on alcoholism in the gay and
lesbian community. Of particular interest are materials relating to Fifield's
work on the California Women's Commission on Alcoholism, 1974-1977, and her
work with the Gay Community Services Center's Alcoholism Program for Women
(APW), which later became the independent Alcoholism Center for Women.
Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)
1983-1984
2 : 1 - 2
Miscellaneous
1983-1984
2 : 1
Jael Greenleaf seminar
1983
2 : 2
Alcoholism in the gay community -- California
1976-1980
7 : 1 (oversize)
Articles
No date
2 : 3 - 5
Alcoholism
No date
2 : 3
Alcoholism in the gay community
No date
2 : 4
Women & alcoholism
No date
2 : 5
Benton County Alcoholism Treatment Program
No date
2 : 6
California Alcoholism Foundation (CAF)
1974
2 : 7
California Women's Commission on Alcoholism
1974-1977
2 : 8 - 9 ; 7 : 2
(oversize)
Miscellaneous
1974
2 : 8
The treatment needs of the woman
alcoholic: a survey of alcoholism agencies in California
1977
2 : 9 ; 7 : 2 (oversize)
Draft
1977
2 : 9
Final
1977
7 : 2 (oversize)
Correspondence
2003
2 : 10
Gay Community Services Center
1975-1981
2 : 11 - 3 : 3 ; 7 : 3
(oversize)
Alcoholism Needs Assessment Project (ANA)
1975
2 : 11
Comprehensive Program of Cummunity Services for
Alcoholic Women (APW, later Alcoholism Center for Women)
1974-1981
2 : 12 - 3 : 3 ; 7 : 3
(oversize)
Miscellaneous
1974-1981
2 : 12
Funding proposal (United States Department of Health,
Education and Welfare)
February 26,
1974 3 : 1 - 3
3 folders
Copy 1
February 26,
1974 3 : 1 - 2
2 folders
Copy 2 (annotated)
February 26,
1974 3 : 3
Forms
circa
1974-1975 7 : 3
(oversize)
Los Angeles County Alcoholism Advisory Board
1976-1977
3 : 4
National Association of Gay Alcoholism Professionals
(NAGAP)
1980
3 : 5
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism.
Alcohol Abuse & Women: A Guide to
Getting Help
1978
3 : 6
Replication study. Morales/Graves,
Substance Abuse: Patterns & Barriers to
treatment for gay men & lesbians in San Francisco
1983
3 : 7
Series 3.
Gay Community Services Center
1972-1996
3 : 8 - 4 : 2 ; 7 : 4 - 5
(oversize)
7 folders
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of materials relating to Fifield's work with
the Gay Community Services Center outside its alcoholism program. The bulk of
the materials consists of funding proposals submitted to Los Angeles County
healthcare agencies. Other documents include Fifield's 1983 evaluation of the
Center's Community Employment Services program, and flyers and other materials
relating to the Center's early history. The Miscellaneous folder also contains
an article published in Lesbian News in 1996, describing Fifield's pivotal role
in the early years of the Center.
Miscellaneous
1972-1974,
1992,
1996
7 : 4
Background & introduction
1973
7 : 5
Revenue Sharing proposal (not identified)
after July
1973 3 : 8
vol. 2 of 2
Los Angeles gay community drug abuse services, 1974-1975.
Proposal submitted to the Los Angeles County Department of health
Services
September 1973
3 : 9
Staffing grant proposal (National Institute of Mental
Health)
March 15,
1974 3 : 10
Primary prevention in drug abuse: a pioneering program for
gay people. Funding proposal to the Los Angeles County Central Health Services
Region
October 29,
1976 4 : 1
Community Employment Services (CES). Evaluation
Report
1983
4 : 2
Series 4.
Research
circa
1974-1995 4 : 3 - 10 ; 7 :
6 - 11 (oversize)
14 folders
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of notes, workshop materials, photocopied
articles, and other materials collected by Fifield in the course of her work,
but, with one exception, not related to her work on alcoholism in the gay and
lesbian community.
Articles
No date
4 : 3 ; 7 : 6 (oversize)
Feminist
No date
4 : 3
Gay
No date
7 : 6
Articles of incorporation, bylaws
1984
4 : 4
Bibliography
No date
7 : 7 - 8 (oversize)
Gay
No date
7 : 7 (oversize)
Women & lesbians
No date
7 : 8 (oversize)
Computer data processing code book design
No date
4 : 5
Content analysis
No date
4 : 6
Evaluation component
1974,
No date
4 : 7 ; 7 : 9 (oversize)
Gay Community Services Center. Comprehensive community
services for alcoholic women {APW, later Alcoholism Center for
Women)
1974
7 : 9 (oversize)
General
No date
4 : 7
Evaluation materials -- Proposal aids
No date
7 : 10 (oversize)
Evaluation workshop
No date
7 : 11 (oversize)
Homosexuality: A comprehensive bibliographic search of
Psychological Abstracts
1979
4 : 8 - 9
2 folders
Institute of Gay & Lesbian Education
1994-1995
4 : 10
Series 5.
International Women's Year
1977
4 : 11 - 5 : 7 (oversize)
10 folders
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of notes, planning documents, clippings from
newspapers and the popular press, conference packets, and other materials
relating to Fifield's participation in the International Women's Year
California State Meeting in June 1977, and the California delegation's
activities at the National Women's Conference in Houston in November 1977.
International Women's Year California State
Meeting
June 16-19,
1977 4 : 11 -
12
Miscellaneous
June
16-19, 1977 4 :
11
Final report
June
16-19, 1977 4 :
12
National Organization of Women (NOW)
1977
4 : 13
National Women's Conference. Houston
November
18-21, 1977 5 : 1 - 7 ; 8
(rolled)
Papers
November
18-21, 1977 5 :
1
Binder materials
November
18-21, 1977 5 :
2
California delegation
November
18-21, 1977 5 :
3
Daily Breakthrough
November
18-21, 1977 5 :
4
Lillene Fifield planning sheet
1977
8
Rolled.
Miscellaneous
November
18-21, 1977 5 :
5
Newspaper clippings
November
18-21, 1977 5 :
6
Time /
New York Times
Magazine
November-December 1977
5 : 7
Series 6.
Daphne Hatfield
1973-circa
1980 5 : 8 - 9 ; 7 : 12
(oversize)
3 folders
Series Scope and Content
This series comprises a small number of items, including an award
plaque and pocket calendar/appointment book for 1973, relating to the work of
Fifield's partner, Daphne Hatfield, with the Gay Community Services Center.
Award plaque from Gay Community Services
Center
circa 1975
5 : 8
Miscellaneous
No date
7 : 12 (oversize)
Pocket calendar/appointment book
1973
5 : 9
Series 7.
Photographs
1977, undated
8
2 photographs (rolled)
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of two rolled items: (1) an undated color
photocopy of a photograph, marked "LAWCC", and (2) a photograph taken at the
National Women's Conference at Houston in November 1977.
LAWCC
No date
8
Rolled.
National Women's Conference. Houston
November 1977
8
Rolled.
Series 8.
Printed Materials
1969-2003
6 : 1 - 10
10 folders
Series Scope and Content
This series consists primarily of a small number of Lesbian
newsletters, zines, and literary publications. The newspaper clippings comprise
several stories of gay and lesbian interest from 1977, and an obituary of
Morris Kight, 2003.
Newspaper clippings
1977,
2003
6 : 1
Amie.
The Hourglass
1978
6 : 2
Poetry.
Benston, Margaret. The political economy of women's
liberation.
Monthly Review
September 1969
6 : 3
Come out comix (Mary
Wings)
1977
6 : 4
Dynamite damsels (Roberta
Gregory)
1976
6 : 5
Grahn, Judy; Cadden, Wendy.
The common woman
No date
6 : 6
Lesbian voices, vol. 2, no.
1
Winter
1975/76 6 : 7
Ms. mystic, nos. 1-3
1987-1988
6 : 8
Own newsletter, vol. 3, no.
4
Winter 1979
6 : 9
Prickly pear [California State
College, San Bernardino]. Poems & stories by: 11 + 12 =
1978
6 : 10
Signed by Charlene Hoskins.
Series 9.
Audio & Visual Materials
1973-2001
9
1 archive carton
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of audio tapes, most if not all from the
collection of Daphne Hatfield, of lesbian music, and of videotapes on the 1987
March on Washington and on the life of Morris Kight (including interviews with
Kight and Torrie Osborn).
Audio
1973-1974
9
Daphne Hatfield, Tape 1: "Tapdance"; "Beautiful woman";
"Service station"; "Best friend"; "House". KPFK
April 23,
1973 9
1 7-inch, open reel audio tape
Gay Liberation -- Out of the Closet interview. KNBC; Gay
Songs
July 1,
1973 9
1 audio cassette
Vicki Randle, music by Margie Adam: "You took me for a
ride"; "Images"; "The time has come"; "Prepare for landing"
November
24-25, 1973 9
1 7-inch, open reel audio tape
Margie Adam, Songs, Part 2: "Hey in there"; "Something
just begun"; "Lost in inner space"; "Come out, come out, wherever you are!";
"Woman of my heart". KPFK
April 28,
1974 9
1 7-inch, open reel audio tape
Daphne [Hatfield]. Gay Community Services
Center
circa 1974
9
1 7-inch, open reel audio tape
Video
1974-2001
9
It takes all kinds -- Men. CBS
1974
9
1 1-inch, open reel video tape
It takes all kinds -- Women. CBS
1974
9
1 1-inch, open reel video tape
Historic march on Washington. Lifestyle Update
Productions
October 1987
9
1 VHS video cassette
Part of the USA! National march on Washington for
lesbian & gay rights; the official videotape
October 11,
1987 9
1 VHS video cassette
Life and times profile: Torrie Osborn & Morris
Kight
No date
9
1 VHS video cassette
Morris Kite [sic] & Torrie Osborn interviews
(VHS)
No date
9
1 VHS video cassette
Morris Kite [sic] interview
No date
9
1 VHS video cassette, marked NBA #6
Personal best with Morris Kight
March 19,
2001 9
1 VHS video cassette
Life and times of Morris Kight--Liberator
No date
9
1 VHS video cassette
Series 10.
Ephemera, Memorabilia, and Artwork
circa
1975-1978 10
1 archive carton
Series Scope and Content
This series contains 2 mugs; buttons, a bumper sticker, ribbons and
armbands, and a t-shirt relating to the Women's National Convention at Houston
in 1977; a t-shirt from Christopher Street West, 1975; and two additional
t-shirts on Lesbian themes. The series includes a cartoon of Justin Smith from
early January 1978, given by Smith to Fifield before his death in 1986.
Bumper Sticker: "A Dollar A Woman To HOUSTON"
1977
10
4 buttons: (1) "California Women / Houston IWY 1977"; (2)
"..to form a more perfect union" (1977); (3-4) "Pro Plan / Keep Agenda Moving /
Let Every Issue Be Heard"
1977,
No date
10
Cartoon of Justin Smith (1921-1986)
January 1978
11
Given by Smith to Fifield before his death and given by Fifield
to ONE, October 22, 2005.
2 mugs (1 blue, 1 crimson) for Artemis Café
No date
10
Ribbons, armbands, ID, International Women's Year /
Women's National Convention, Houston
1977
10
T-shirt: "It's A Gay, Gay World" (Christopher Street
West)
1975
10
T-shirt: "Women On The Move" (International Women's Year
logo)
1977
10
T-shirt: "Lesbian National Forest"
No date
10
T-shirt (athletic, ribbed): "Califia
Community"
No date
10