Number of Pages
4
Date
September 10, 1979

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.

  • Update on the Voluntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse Statute
  • Update on Aging and Speaker's Bureau
  • Update on Alcoholism
  • Department of Welfare (DPW) Proposed Task Force 
  • Pride '79
  • General Announcements
  • Update on Workgroups
Topics
Year
Time Period
Origin
Gift of Joseph W. Burns
Collection
Location
LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection