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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 1964
Richard Schlegel at dinner event (right).
Collection: LGBT-081 - Deibler
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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-081 - Deibler
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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-081 - Deibler
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Organizations: PA Department of Highways
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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-081 - Deibler
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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-081 - Deibler
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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...
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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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
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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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Date: circa 1992
Thurman Grossnickle (left) and Barry Loveland (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 1976
Janet Cooper (left) and Sam Deetz (right), members of the PA Rural Gay Caucus, in late 1975 or early 1976.
Collection: LGBT-011 - Deetz
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
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Date: March 1976
Sam Deetz at Gay Education Day, also known as Gay Lobby Day, organized by the PA Rural Gay Caucus and in Harrisburg, PA during March 1976. Photo taken by Bari Weaver.
Collection: LGBT-011 - Deetz
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
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Date: March 4, 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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, National Gay Task Force (NGTF)
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Steering Committee Meeting Minutes - March 4, 1977
Date: June 25, 1976
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Steering Committee Meeting Minutes - June 25, 1976
Date: May 7, 1976
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: State Employment Committee Meeting Minutes - May 7, 1976
Date: circa 1978
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Speaker's Bureau
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Speakers Bureau Brochure - circa 1978
Date: March 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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Report of Pennsylvania Council for Sexual Minorities - March 1977
Date: 1978
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Pride '78 Handmade Poster - 1978
Date: circa 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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Press Release - circa 1977
Date: April 23, 1980
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities ''Past Progress, Future Plans'' Draft - April 23, 1980