LGBT History Project

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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Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - June 2002

Date: June 2002

Created by Lorraine Kujawa, Cindy Mitzel, Mary Nancarrow, and several others in 1983, the Lavender Letter Newsletter was a calendar of events for, by, and about lesbian women to create community in the Central Pennsylvania area...

Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter

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Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - May 2002

Date: May 2002

Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter

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Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - April 2002

Date: April 2002

Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter

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Organizations: Central PA Womyn's Chorus

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Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - March 2002

Date: March 2002

Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter

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Organizations: The Center for Women's Creative Expression, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg

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Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - February 2002

Date: February 2002

Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter

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Organizations: The Center for Women's Creative Expression

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Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - January 2002

Date: January 2002

Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter

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LGBT History Project: LGBT-017 Thomas Pfeiffer Collection

Date: 1990-1992

This collection of material reflects Thomas Pfeiffer’s involvement in the Lily White and Company drag troupe in Harrisburg, PA and The Pennsmen Inc., a group of LGBT people with a common interest in the leather/fetish lifestyle.

Collection: LGBT-017 - Pfeiffer

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Organizations: Lily White & Company, Pennsmen Inc.

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LGBT History Project: LGBT-008 Dan Maneval Collection

Date: 1977-1980

Dan Maneval was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on October 3, 1947. Maneval’s activism included the founding of the Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), the West Branch Gay Support Network, Susquehanna Lambda, Susquehanna Valley Gays United, and...

Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval

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Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), Susquehanna Lambda

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LGBT History Project: LGBT-007 Dan Miller Collection

Date: 1992 - 2013

Dan Miller was born in 1956 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He earned his BA in Accounting from Elizabethtown College, later going on to get his MA in Finance from Penn State University. In October of 1990, after working for Donald L. DeMuth...

Collection: LGBT-007 - Miller

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LGBT History Project: LGBT-005 Margaret ''Peg'' Dierkers Collection

Date: 1990-1995

Margaret “Peg” Dierkers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1957. She earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Ohio State University and eventually enrolled in a doctoral program in Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State...

Collection: LGBT-005 - Dierkers

Topics: HIV/AIDs

Organizations: South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN)

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LGBT History Project: LGBT-004 Chris Dietz Collection

Chris Dietz Campaign Business Card and Pin

Date: 2012

In 2012 Chris Dietz was one of a record three openly gay candidates running for state representative, and one of two from central PA. While Dietz did not win his race for PA State Representative, he has served as the openly gay president of the...

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