The Solano Stonewall Democratic Club and Vallejo Gay Network have also posted about it, Davis said. The Solano County Pride Center included the incident in its recent newsletter with a donation link.
While she has insurance, there is a high deductible and other expenses. The San Francisco-based historical society is the fiscal sponsor of the archive.ĭavis thanked the organizations and people who have helped publicize the incident. Isaac Fellman, research archivist at the society, is organizing a team of archivists to come to LLTA for a cleanup and remediation day, Davis wrote in the email. The next step, she said, will be getting people from the GLBT Historical Society to help her go through and pack up items to place into storage prior to construction. Some musical instruments were also damaged, said Davis, a retired music instructor from City College of San Francisco. "They've got to take out two walls," she said. The foundation is cracked, she noted, and there may be foundation damage in the other room of the archive. But the repair work will be pretty significant, she said. Fortunately, the circuit breaker popped so it didn't start a fire, he explained.ĭavis said she's met with an insurance adjuster and is awaiting an estimate. He said some of the electrical was torn out and the crash pushed the right side of the wall out. "It was quite an impact," he said of the collision. Oakley said in a phone interview that he's known Davis for about 20 years and remodeled the building for her a few years ago. until he showed up I had this big hole," Davis said.
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that Robert Oakley, the man who built out the archive - it used to be a termite-infested garage, she explained - came over the next day with plywood and 2x4s to cover up the gaping hole left by the vehicle. Lawrence's address book was the initial subscription list, and she was instrumental in developing the trans community's connection to pioneering sex researchers such as Alfred Kinsey and Harry Benjamin, according to Davis.ĭavis told the B.A.R. She, along with Virginia Prince and others, published the first incarnation of Transvestia in 1952. The archive is named in honor of the late northern California transgender pioneer Louise Lawrence (1912-1976), who began living full-time as a woman in 1942, first in Berkeley then San Francisco, as the B.A.R. It obliterated the whole office," she said. "The damage was largely confined to the office, which is one of two rooms that houses the small archive.
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Neighbors said the driver lost control, smashed through the rear wall of the archive, and ran. "Imagine my surprise when I was greeted by an SUV parked in the middle of the office. "I was rushing to events in San Francisco and ran into the archive to get some brochures," Davis wrote in an email to supporters. Bob Davis, a trans woman who founded the archive in 2017 - it opened in September 2018 - told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview that no one was injured during the incident, which occurred on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility. The Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive in Vallejo was damaged last month after a driver plowed into the converted garage that houses it and reportedly fled, while the founder is expressing support as she works to have the building repaired.