Title:
Jefferson F. Poland papers, approximately 1965-1973
Creator/Contributor:
Poland, Jefferson F., creator, creator.
Abstract:
Includes subject files of correspondence, writings, miscellaneous printed materials, and clippings. Also includes 2 scrapbooks
for 1965-1967 and 1966-1968.
Date:
1965 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us---
Poland, Jefferson F -- Archives
Social movements -- California
Social movements -- United States
Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Jefferson F. Poland papers, BANC MSS 99/157 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
John Jefferson Poland (born July 12, 1942) founded the Sexual Freedom League in New York City in 1963 with Leo Koch. He then
moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and focused his organizing efforts at the University of California, Berkeley. Poland founded
various chapters, including ones in the East Bay, San Francisco, Berkeley and San Diego. Calling himself "Jefferson Fuck Poland",
and having his name legally changed thereto and identifying as bisexual, he participated in one of the first known LGBT rights
demonstrations in the United States (1963 or 1964). In 1970, Poland founded the Psychedelic Venus Church, an offshoot of the
Sexual Freedom League. In 1983, Poland was charged with child molestation. He fled the country and he lived for five years
as a fugitive in Australia. In 1988, he was extradited back to the U.S. By that time he had changed his name legally to "Clitlick."
He pleaded guilty to "lewd or lascivious act with a child," a felony. He served about nine months in San Diego County Jail.
Upon his release, he returned to live in San Francisco, where he is monitored as a registered sex offender. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Poland
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1971.130--PIC).
Preliminary container listing available in the library.
Physical Description:
print
7.6 (6 1
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.