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LGBT History Project
About LGBT History Project Resources
The LGBT Center of Central PA and the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections have partnered to document the stories and history of LGBT life and activism in Central PA.
This site contains fully accessible digital versions of many documents, images, artifacts, and oral histories that have been donated to the LGBT History Project.
This is a very quickly growing collection, and not all items are available on this site. Contact Malinda Triller-Doran at archives@dickinson.edu for information about how to access materials in this collection.
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LGBT History Project
Date: October 14, 1979
This flyer was created by HOW to promote the March on Washington, on October 14, 1979.
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW)
View Item: 
Gays to March on Washington Flyer - October 14, 1979
Date: September 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW)
Date: July/August 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Central PA Gay Alliance, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California
Date: June 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - June 1979
Date: 2018
The Keystone Conference is a program for transgender individuals and their allies that has been held annually in Pennsylvania since 2009. The items in this collection include publicity material distributed during the 2018...
Collection: LGBT-077 - Keystone Conference
Topics:
Organizations:
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-077 Keystone Conference Collection
Date: 2007-2012
This collection contains chapter information regarding the Southern Eastern Pennsylvania chapter of the Renaissance Education Association, Inc. (ROSE), a non-profit transgender support organization. This collection also includes...
Collection: LGBT-059 - ROSE
Topics:
Organizations: Renaissance Education Association, Inc.
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-059 Renaissance of Southern Eastern PA Collection
Date: 1998-2008
This collection contains newsletters published between 1998 and 2004 by the Lower Susquehanna Valley Chapter of the Renaissance Education Association, Inc., a non-profit transgender support organization. These materials also...
Collection: LGBT-039 - Davidson
Topics:
Organizations: Renaissance Education Association, Inc.
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-039 Ellen Davidson Collection
Date: 1985-1999
Steven Leshner became amember of Dignity/Central PA, a Catholic organization for LGBTQ+ individuals that has been active in the Harrisburg, PA area since 1976, in the 1970s, whereheparticipated in events and activities, as well as became part of...
Collection: LGBT-029 - Leshner
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-029 Steven Leshner Collection
Date: May 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - May 1979
Date: April 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - April 1979
Date: February/March 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - February/March 1979
Date: November/December 1978
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics: Harassment
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - November/December 1978
Date: October 1978
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics: Harassment
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - October 1978
Date: August 1978
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Northeastern PA Coalition for Human Rights (NPCHR)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - August 1978
Date: May 1978
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - May 1978
Date: March 1978
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), Gay Persons of Bloomsburg (GPB)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - March 1978
Date: undated
Created by Lorraine Kujawa, Cindy Mitzel, Mary Nancarrow, and several others in 1983, the Lavender Letter Newsletter was a calendar of events for, by, and about lesbian women to create community in the Central Pennsylvania area...
Collection: LGBT-022 - Kujawa
Topics:
Organizations:
View Item: History of the Lavender Letter - undated
Date: June 2006
Created by Lorraine Kujawa, Cindy Mitzel, Mary Nancarrow, and several others in 1983, the Lavender Letter Newsletter was a calendar of events for, by, and about lesbian women to create community in the Central Pennsylvania area...
Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter
Topics:
Organizations: Common Roads
View Item: Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - June 2006
Date: April 2006
Created by Lorraine Kujawa, Cindy Mitzel, Mary Nancarrow, and several others in 1983, the Lavender Letter Newsletter was a calendar of events for, by, and about lesbian women to create community in the Central Pennsylvania area...
Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter
Topics:
Organizations: Women's Circle
Date: March 2006
Created by Lorraine Kujawa, Cindy Mitzel, Mary Nancarrow, and several others in 1983, the Lavender Letter Newsletter was a calendar of events for, by, and about lesbian women to create community in the Central Pennsylvania area...
Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter
Topics:
Organizations: Women's Circle, Common Roads
Date: February 2006
Created by Lorraine Kujawa, Cindy Mitzel, Mary Nancarrow, and several others in 1983, the Lavender Letter Newsletter was a calendar of events for, by, and about lesbian women to create community in the Central Pennsylvania area...
Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter
Topics:
Organizations:
Date: January 2006
Created by Lorraine Kujawa, Cindy Mitzel, Mary Nancarrow, and several others in 1983, the Lavender Letter Newsletter was a calendar of events for, by, and about lesbian women to create community in the Central Pennsylvania area...
Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter
Topics:
Organizations: Common Roads
Date: 1982-1997
Founded by Paul Foltz in 1982, Lily White and Company was a south central Pennsylvania organization composed of entertainers and female impersonators. Lily White and Company produced numerous shows and performances throughout central Pennsylvania...
Collection: LGBT-043 - Lily White & Company
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Lily White & Company
View Item: LGBT History Project: Lily White & Company Collection
Date: circa 2000
Melinda Eash is a child psychologist and LBGTQ+ rights ally. After encountering a gay patient in her psychologist practice, Eash began teaching herself about LGBTQ+ youth. She contacted and began attending the local LGBTQ+ youth...
Collection: LGBT-040 - Eash
Topics:
Organizations: Bi, Gay, Lesbian Youth Association of Harrisburg (Bi-GLYAH), Common Roads
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-040 Melinda Eash Collection
Date: undated
This collection holds two rainbow chaings donated by an anonymous donor.
Collection: LGBT-035 - Anonymous
Topics:
Organizations:
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-035 Anonymous Collection