Should the COVID-19 pandemic remain in retreat through the summer then the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives in West Hollywood should be welcoming a female researcher from France this September who is coming across the pond to conduct research among its holdings.
It is also eying a fall opening for a new exhibit about lesbian magazine Curve.The publication's founder, Frances "Franco" Stevens, had donated the magazine's archival material in 2010 when she sold it to Avalon Media in Sydney, Australia. (She recently bought it back.) Her wife Jen Rainin, the CEO of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation named after her father, granted the Mazer $10,000 to process the Curve Collection.It allowed for the 40-year-old Southern California archival center,.