MELLORS, Robert, 1950-1996, gay rights campaigner

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 HCA/Mellors papers
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: MELLORS, Robert, 1950-1996, gay rights campaigner
Date(s)	: [1970-1996]
Level of description	: Subfonds of the Hall-Carpenter Archives View parent record
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 Publications: editor of An outline of human ethnology: extracts from an unpublished work by Charlotte Bach (London, 1981); We are all androgynous yellow (Another-Orbit Press, London, 1980); Clint Eastwood loves Jeff Bridges - true!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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Unsorted.

Conditions governing access:

Closed until listed.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Unlisted.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Deposited by the family, via Professor Elizabeth Wilson, in 1996.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

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.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Dec 2000