LGBT History Project: LGBT-040 Melinda Eash Collection

Melinda Eash is a child psychologist and LBGTQ+ rights ally. After encountering a gay patient in her psychologist practice, Eash began teaching herself about LGBTQ+ youth. She contacted and began attending the local LGBTQ+ youth group, and became an integral ally and leader of Bi, Gay, Lesbian Youth Association of Harrisburg (Bi-GLYAH), which later was renamed Common Roads.