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.
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Date: circa 1980
T-shirt for the Harrisburg, PA gay bar Shadows.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Date: October 8 -9, 1988
Charm City (PA) invitational volleyball tournament plaque.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team
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Date: May 24 - 27, 1985
NAGVA III international tournament plaque won by the Harrisburg Hustlers.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team
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Date: circa 1980
Harrisburg Hustlers HBG #16 yellow and black, long sleeve shirt.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team
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Date: circa 1980
Harrisburg Hustlers #3 yellow and black, short sleeve Captain shirt.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team
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Date: circa 1980
Harrisburg Hustlers #3 maroon and white long sleeve captian shirt.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team
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Date: circa 1980
Harrisburg Hustlers #3 red, long sleeve shirt.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Date: 1986
NAGVA Nationals Tournament 4 (Chicago, IL) white, long sleeve shirt.
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
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Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team
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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
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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
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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
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Date: circa 1964
Richard Schlegel at dinner event (right).
Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel
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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
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Organizations: PA Department of Highways
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Date: circa 1964
Richard Schlegel at a desk in the PA Department of Highways.
Collection: LGBT-114 Schlegel
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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
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Organizations: PA Department of Highways
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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
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Organizations: PA Department of Highways
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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
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Dignity/Central PA, Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
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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
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
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Date: circa 1977
Civil Rights March in Harrisburg, PA, late 1970s. Photo by Bari Weaver.
Collection: LGBT-041 - Edmiston
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Organizations: Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU)
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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
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Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
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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
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
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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
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Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
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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
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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
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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
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