Ken Maley and Firat Yener Papers

Ken Maley is a San Francisco-based media consultant and promoter who has been involved with many civic organizations and events, several of which were for the LGBT community. Firat Yener is Maley’s husband. The papers contain correspondence, flyers, clippings, subject files, photographs, negatives, buttons, and audiovisual materials that document local events, public figures, and the life shared by Maley and Yener. In the 1970s and 1980s, Maley’s circle of friends included Rock Hudson, Armistead Maupin, and Randy Shilts.