OSU Rainbow Continuum Records, 1993-2021
Predominant Dates: 2000-2013
The Oregon State University (OSU) Rainbow Continuum Records document the administrative and outreach activities of this student group, which has been active at OSU since 1976. The purpose of the Rainbow Continuum is to provide a social and educational space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other gender or sexuality diverse (LGBTQ+) members of the OSU community and their allies. Most notably, the Rainbow Continuum hosts OSU's annual Queer Pride Week celebration in May.
ID: MSS Rainbow
Extent: 0.25 cubic feet
Statement on Access: This collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation: OSU Rainbow Continuum Records (MSS Rainbow), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Acquisition Note:
This collection was complied by SCARC staff from materials previously housed within the Pride Center Records and the Queer History Research Collection
Acquired:
Additions to the collection are expected.
Container List
- Series 1: Administration, 1993-2021 Add to Shelf
- The administrative materials consist of certificates and awards, constitutions (including an undated constitution, likely from the 1980s) that document the group's name changes, correspondence, meeting notes (only the years 2013 and 2021 are represented), grants and funding applications, training materials and guidelines provided by OSU, as well as one photo of the Rainbow Continuum office.
- Box-Folder 1.1: Certificates and Awards, 1993-2006 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.2: Constitutions, 2000-2002 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.3: Correspondence, 2007 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.4: Signs, Undated Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.5: Grants and Funding, 2007-2008 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.6: Meeting Notes, 2013-2021 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.7: Newspaper and Magazine Clippings, 2004-2016 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.8: Photo, Undated Add to Shelf
- Print of the Rainbow Continuum office space.
- Extent: 1 print
- Box-Folder 1.9: Training and Guidelines, 2004-2007 Add to Shelf
- Series 2: Events, 1993-2019 Add to Shelf
- This series primarily consists of materials related to the annual Queer Pride Week celebration that the group coordinates and presents in May. These materials include flyers, posters, meeting notes, tickets, ephemera, receipts, and pamphlets. Often mixed in with the Queer Pride Week materials are the materials about drag shows, of which there are two annually, one in the fall and one in the spring during Queer Pride Week. Of note are 540 digitized photographs from the 2015 Queer Pride Week Drag show.
- Box-Folder 1.10: Assorted Event Flyers, 1993-1999 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 2.1: Assorted Event Posters (oversize), 1996-2019 Add to Shelf
- Contains posters from Queer Pride Week events, such as drag shows, as well as fall drag shows and guest speakers.
- Box-Folder 1.11: Drag Shows, 2005-2015 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.12: Queer Pride Week, 1993 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.13: Queer Pride Week, 1994 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.14: Queer Pride Week, 1996 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.15: Queer Pride Week, 1997 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.16: Queer Pride Week, 1998 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.17: Queer Pride Week, 1999 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.18: Queer Pride Week, 2000 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.19: Queer Pride Week, 2001 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.20: Queer Pride Week, 2003 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.21: Queer Pride Week, 2004 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.22: Queer Pride Week, 2006 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.23: Queer Pride Week, 2007 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.24: Queer Pride Week, 2008 Add to Shelf
- The photographs on the DVD -- "The Many Faces of Pride - Drag Show" -- have been digitized and are available upon request.
- Extent: 540 photos; 1.66 GB
- Box-Folder 1.25: Queer Pride Week, 2009 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.26: Queer Pride Week, 2010 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.27: Queer Pride Week, 2011 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.28: Queer Pride Week, 2013 Add to Shelf
- Digital Folder 1: Queer Pride Week, 2015 Add to Shelf
- The photographs are digital and available upon request.
- Extent: 53 photos, 0.98 MB
- Box-Folder 1.29: Queer Pride Week, 2016 Add to Shelf