IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0097 HCA/Mellors papers
Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title: MELLORS, Robert, 1950-1996, gay rights campaigner
Date(s): [1970-1996]
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 10 boxes
Name of creator(s): Mellors | Robert | 1950-1996 | gay rights campaigner
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Robert (Bob) Mellors was born in 1950. He was a student at the London School of Economics, following which he travelled to New York, where he became involved with the Gay Liberation Front. On his return to London, Mellors became the co-founder of the British Gay Liberation Front in 1970. When the GLF foundered in 1974, Mellors helped in the formation of more specialised lesbian and gay community groups. He was killed in 1996. Publications: editor of An outline of human ethnology: extracts from an unpublished work by Charlotte Bach (London, 1981); We are all androgynous yellow (Another-Orbit Press, London, 1980); Clint Eastwood loves Jeff Bridges - true! 'homosexuality', androgyny & evolution : a simple introduction (Another Orbit Press, London, 1978). Charlotte/Carl Bach, a man who lived the second half of his life as a woman, developed a number of philosophical theories relating to gender and sexuality.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers collected by Robert Mellors while writing a biography of the sexologist Charlotte/Carl Bach, [1970-1996], comprising papers of Bach relating to her work, records of interviews with her family and friends, notes and typescript drafts of Mellors' biography.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Unsorted.
Conditions governing access:
Closed until listed.
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Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unlisted.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Deposited by the family, via Professor Elizabeth Wilson, in 1996.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
The Hall Carpenter Archives at the British Library of Political and Economic Science hold material relating to Bob Mellors in the papers of Rupert Beach and the Hall-Carpenter ephemera collection.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Dec 2000