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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: April 1996
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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Date: March 1996
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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Date: February 1996
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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Date: January 1996
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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Date: October 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this letter, Joseph Burns tells...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
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PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter from the Editor - October 1976
Date: April 2, 1977
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this letter, the Caucus is writing...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter - April 2, 1977
Date: February 1, 1977
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this letter, it is told that...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho)
Date: November 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this letter, Joseph W. Burns...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Legislative Committee Letter - November 1976
Date: circa October 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this letter, Lehigh Valley...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Rural Gay Caucus
Date: September 20, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this letter, Barry Lace encourages...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
Date: August 11, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
This letter was written by Barry Lace...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Legislative Committee Letter - August 11, 1976
Date: July 22, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this letter, the Caucus informs...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter - July 22, 1976
Date: May 10, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities."
In this letter, the Rural Gay Caucus...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Repeal Bill, Sodomy Laws
Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter - May 10, 1976
Date: June 5, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this flier, the Rural Gay Caucus...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
Date: August 11, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
Feedback form created to get...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Feedback Form - August 11, 1976
Date: April 11, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
This is an event flyer promoting a...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Event Flyer: Picnic and Garage Sale - April 11, 1976
Date: 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
This a form used to evaluate...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Legislator Visit Evaluation Sheet - 1976
Date: 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities."
Flow chart of how information spreads...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Chart - 1976
Date: June 12, 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In this report, the PA Rural Gay...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Repeal Bill
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Date: March 31, circa 1976
The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus was “an association of interested individuals and groups, formed with the objective of promulgating the concerns and freedoms of gay people and all sexual minorities.”
In these meeting minutes, the...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Education Committee Minutes - March 31, circa 1976
Date: 2011
This collection contains a campaign poster from John Campbell’s run for Harrisburg City (PA) treasurer as an openly gay candidate in 2011-2012.
Collection: LGBT-003 - Campbell
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-003 John Campbell Collection
Date: 1973 - 1985
Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He finished his final year of college at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and then attended Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) as a graduate student.
Silvestre was...
Collection: LGBT-074 - Silvestre
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-074 Anthony Silvestre Collection
Date: September 21, 2016
Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He grew up in a working-class, Italian neighborhood and is familiar with stigma. He began identifying as gay in the sixth grade, but went through school still in the closet. After high...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Eromin Center (Philadelphia)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 107: Anthony Silvestre
Date: December 1995
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
Topics: HIV/AIDs, AIDS Memorial Quilt
Organizations: The Names Project, York Area LAMBDA
Date: October 1995
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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Organizations: The Flirtations & Suede