Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)

PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter - May 10, 1976

May 10, 1976

The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”

In this letter, the Rural Gay Caucus...

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics: Sodomy Repeal Bill, Sodomy Laws

Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)

View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter - May 10, 1976

Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - June 1976

June 1976

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were...

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals

Topics: Gay Pride, Stonewall

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Gay Era, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), West Chester Gays, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Dignity/Central PA

View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - June 1976

Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - July 1976

July 1976

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals

Topics: House Bill 2220, Homophobia

Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Era, West Chester State College

View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - July 1976

Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - October 1976

October 1976

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals

Topics: Sodomy Laws

Organizations: Gay Era, Dyketactics, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)

View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - October 1976

Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - December 1977

December 1977

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals

Topics: Human Rights Ordinance, PA Gay Rights Bill

Organizations: National Gay Task Force, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Lehigh Valley Coalition for Human Rights, Church of the Brethren/Mennonite Church Gay Caucus, Gay Era, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - December 1977

Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - April 1978

April 1978

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals

Topics:

Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Coordinating Society of Reading (GCS Reading), Gay Era, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), Gay Persons of Bloomsburg (GPB)

View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - April 1978

LGBT Oral History 107: Anthony Silvestre

September 16, 2016

Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He grew up in a working-class, Italian neighborhood and is familiar with stigma. He began identifying as gay in the sixth grade, but went through school still in the closet. After high...

Collection: LGBT Oral History

Topics: HIV/AIDs

Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Eromin Center (Philadelphia)

View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 107: Anthony Silvestre

LGBT History Project: LGBT-074 Anthony Silvestre Collection

1973 - 1985

Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He finished his final year of college at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and then attended Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) as a graduate student.

Silvestre was...

Collection: LGBT-074 - Silvestre

Topics:

Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)

View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-074 Anthony Silvestre Collection