About LGBT History Project Resources

The LGBT Center of Central PA and the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections have partnered to document the stories and history of LGBT life and activism in the greater Central Pennsylvania region. This site contains oral histories that have been recorded for the LGBT History Project, as well as fully accessible digital versions of documents, images, and artifacts that have been donated to the project.

This is a quickly growing collection, and not all items are available through this website. Please contact Malinda Triller-Doran at archives@dickinson.edu for information about how to access all of the resources of the LGBT History Project, as well as how to donate additional materials.

Generous support to make these unique resources accessible has been provided by the Schlegel Deibler Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Search LGBT History Project

LGBT History Project

Date: circa 1980

T-shirt for the Harrisburg, PA gay bar Shadows.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations:

View Item:

Date: October 8 -9, 1988

Charm City (PA) invitational volleyball tournament plaque.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team

View Item:

Date: May 24 - 27, 1985

NAGVA III international tournament plaque won by the Harrisburg Hustlers.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team

View Item:

Date: circa 1980

Harrisburg Hustlers HBG #16 yellow and black, long sleeve shirt.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team

View Item:

Date: circa 1980

Harrisburg Hustlers #3 yellow and black, short sleeve Captain shirt.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team

View Item:

Date: circa 1980

Harrisburg Hustlers #3 maroon and white long sleeve captian shirt.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team

View Item:

Date: circa 1980

Harrisburg Hustlers #3 red, long sleeve shirt.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team

View Item:

Date: 1986

NAGVA Nationals Tournament 4 (Chicago, IL) white, long sleeve shirt.

Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson

Topics:

Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team

View Item:

Date: 1971 - 1994

Jan Brittan graduated from Dickinson College in 1971. This collection contains LGBTQ+ periodicals and articles. Brittan also donated books, which are listed in a separate PDF Appendix.

Collection: LGBT-064 - Brittan

Topics:

Organizations:

View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-064 Jan Brittan Collection , LGBT History Project: LGBT-064 Jan Brittan Collection Appendix

Date: 2016 - 2017

The Carlisle Anti-Discrimination Ordinance, also known as the Borough of Carlisle Human Relations Ordinance, was passed in December 2016. This ordinance established a Human Relations Commission and protection of LGBTQ+ community in the Borough, specifically when it comes to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

The majority of materials in this collection were collected by Malinda Triller-Doran, Special Collections Librarian for Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections in Carlisle, PA. Items include drafts of the ordinance and resolutions, newspaper coverage of the debate, and community responses.

Collection: LGBT-060 - Carlisle Anti-Discrimination Ordinance

Topics: Carlisle Anti-Discrimination Ordinance

Organizations:

View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-060 Carlisle Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Collection

Date: circa 1964

Richard Schlegel (front, fourth from the left) with large group of men in front of building. Possibly PA Department of Highway staff.

Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel

Topics:

Organizations:

View Item:

Date: circa 1964

Richard Schlegel at dinner event (right). 

Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel

Topics:

Organizations:

View Item:

Date: circa 1964

PA Department of Highways event. Richard Schlegel (back left), Department of Highways Deputy Secretary Wilbur Webb (center), Secretary Henry Harral (right of Webb), and Joe Micco (far right).

Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel

Topics:

Organizations: PA Department of Highways

View Item:

Date: circa 1964

Richard Schlegel at a desk in the PA Department of Highways. 

Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel

Topics:

Organizations: PA Department of Highways

View Item:

Date: March 11, 1964

Pennsylvania Highway Information Association dinner at the Scranton Holiday Inn. Left to right: Ken Larson, James E. Krick, Max Frey, and Richard Schlegel, unidentified man.

Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel

Topics:

Organizations: PA Department of Highways

View Item:

Date: August 1963

Bucknell University seminar for highway executives, left to right: Ken Larson, Dr. George McManmon (standing), James Mifflin, and Richard Schlegel.

Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel

Topics:

Organizations: PA Department of Highways

View Item:

Date: 1976

Photograph of members of PA Rural Gay Caucus with their banner at the 1976 Philadelphia Gay Pride Parade. Identified members from left to right: Aaron Spicher (with the Dignity Banner), Joe Burns, Richard Hoffman (with GCS Berks Banner), Sam Deetz (turned away from the camera) and Jerry Brennan. Photo by Bari Weaver.

Collection: LGBT-029 - Leshner

Topics:

Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Dignity/Central PA, Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)

View Item:

Date: circa 1988

Bari Weaver (left), Sam Deetz (middle), and Joe Burns (right), memebers of the PA Rural Gay Caucus, reunited at dinner circa Christmas 1988.

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics:

Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus

View Item:

Date: circa 1977

Civil Rights March in Harrisburg, PA, late 1970s. Photo by Bari Weaver.

Collection: LGBT-041 - Edmiston

Topics:

Organizations: Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU)

View Item:

Date: circa 1985

The Reverend Wallace E. Sawdy preparing to offer mass for members of Dignity/Central PA at the Society of Friends Meeting House in Harrisburg, PA.

Collection: LGBT-029 - Leshner

Topics:

Organizations: Dignity/Central PA

View Item:

Date: May 1976

Members at a PA Rural Gay Caucus Meeting in State College, PA. Members left to right: Pam Erdly, Sam Deetz, Jonathan Smith-Cousins, Tony Silvestre. Photo by Bari Weaver.

Collection: LGBT-074 - Silvestre

Topics:

Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus

View Item:

Date: 1985

Members of Dignity/Central PA gathering in 1985 at the organization's 10th anniversary celebration, with invited speaker and entertainer Quentin Crisp. Left to right: Jerry Brennan (founder); Richard Hause; Quentin Crisp;William Clifford.

Collection: LGBT-029 - Leshner

Topics:

Organizations: Dignity/Central PA

View Item:

Date: April 10, 1976

Members at a PA Rural Gay Caucus Meeting in Wilkes Barre, PA. Photo by Thomas F. Schmidt of Fay L. Broody Studies.

Collection: LGBT-011 - Deetz

Topics:

Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus

View Item:

Date: circa 1992

Jude Sharp (Left) and Lorraine Kujawa (right) at the First Community Recognition Banquet hosted at Miss Garbo's Tea Room in Carlisle, PA.

Collection: LGBT-007 - Miller

Topics:

Organizations:

View Item:

Date: circa 1992

Mary Nancarrow at the First Community Recognition Banquet hosted at Miss Garbo's Tea Room in Carlisle, PA.

Collection: LGBT-007 - Miller

Topics:

Organizations:

View Item: