Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Memo - January 1, 1977

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Memo - January 1, 1977
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January 1, 1977

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.

Memo announcing resumes being accepted for the State Coordinator position for the 1977 program to repeal Criminal Law No. 3124, the consensual sodomy statute.

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Gift of Joseph W. Burns
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LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection
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Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections