Number of Pages
3
Date
November 11, 1975

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.

Letter from Sam Deetz, a member of the Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities and foudning memeber of Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU), to SVGU informing them of the activies of the Governor's Council for Sexual Minotiries.

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Gift of Joseph W. Burns
Collection
Location
LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection