LGBT History Project: LGBT-092 Richard Malmsheimer Collection

Number of Pages
1
Date
1993 - 1997

This collection contains 4 t-shirts: two from local AIDSWalks held in Harrisburg, PA by local AIDS organizations, SCAAN and AIDS Community Alliance; one from the 1993 March on Washington held in Washington, D.C.; and one created for the Dan Miller Legal Defense Fund.

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Origin
Gift of Richard Malmsheimer
Location
LGBT-092 Richard Malmsheimer Collection

LGBT History Project: LGBT-002 Lancaster, PA Area Activism Collection

Number of Pages
4
Date
1975, 1980 - 2013

There materials were donated at the Lancaster PA Pride event in June 2013. The collection represents the contributions of Mark Stoner and Mary Merriman, and documents LGBTQ+ issues and activism in Lancaster County, PA.

Of particular interest in this collection is The Pink Triangle Coalition materials and the newspaper articles from the Lancaster New Era and Intelligencer Journal, two local newspapers in the area. The newspaper address the establishment of an MCC Church in Mountville, PA, debate over LGBTQ+ rights in the Elizabethtown school system, and controversies over an LGBTQ+ book display in the Lancaster County Public Library. There is also a run of The Lancaster Inqueery, housed in the periodical series.

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Origin
Gift of Mark Stoner and Mary Merriman
Location
LGBT-002 Lancaster, PA Area Activism

Pink Triangle Coalition March on Washington Flyer - April 1993

Number of Pages
2
Date
April 1993

The Pink Triangle Coalition was created in 1991 as a non-religious, LGBTQ+ civil rights advocacy and social organization in the City of Lancaster. The Coalition was instrumental in getting sexual orientation non-discrimination protection added to the human relations ordinance in 1991, and in creating a new city Human Relations Commission to enforce the ordinance in 2001. The Coalition dissolved shortly thereafter.

Flyer created by the Pink Triangle Coalition for March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation 1993.

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Year
Time Period
Origin
Gift of Mark Stoner and Mary Merriman
Location
LGBT-002 Lancaster, PA Activism Collection

''Night of 1000 Parties'' Fundraiser Invitation - March 6, 1993

Number of Pages
4
Date
March 6, 1993

Invitation for a fundraiser event to support March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, 1993.

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Format
Origin
Gift of Mark Stoner and Mary Merriman
Location
LGBT-002 Lancaster, PA Activism Collection

LGBT History Project: LGBT-018 Gerald Vath Collection

Number of Pages
1
Date
1993 - 1994, 2000

The t-shirts and flags in this collection were donated by Gerald Vath, who attended the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in 1993 and the Millennium March on Washington in 2000. Vath wore these t-shirts and waved/carried these flags during their respective marches. There is also a pin to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

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Year
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Origin
Gift of Gerald Vath
Collection
Location
LGBT-018 Gerald Vath Collection

Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - April 1993

Number of Pages
9
Date
April 1993

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. The newsletter was distributed monthly until the mid-2000s.

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Time Period
Format
Origin
Gift of Lorraine Kujawa
Location
LGBT-009 Lavender Letter Collection