Number of Pages
6
Date
May 24, 1978
The Pennsylvania Governor’s Council for Sexual Minorites was an officially appointed advisory committee created by Governor Milton J. Shapp in 1976. Governor Shapp, by executive order, declared that all executive branch offices and services were to end discriminatory practices and policies against all LGBTQ+ employees, clients, and program of state services. The proposed council was his instrument guaranteeing the implementation of his decree throughout the Executive Branch of state government.
Minutes from the May 24, 1978 meeting. Minutes include:
- Update on the ''complaint desk''
- Update on the PA Nurses Association and Liquor Retail Clerks unions
- Update on the Prison Project, specifically on LGBTQ+ Prisoner Sexual Assault
- Update on the Speaker's Bureau
- Update on the group called ''Young Democrats''
- New Projects
- Update on the Executive Order made my Shapp
- State Police Committee Report
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Origin
Gift of Joseph W. Burns
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Location
LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection