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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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Date: March 1977
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: National Civil Rights Bill, PA Senate Bill 83
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Era, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
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Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - March 1977
Date: February 1977
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Pro-Gay Executive Orders, Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - February 1977
Date: November 1976
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Sodomy Laws, Suicide
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay League of Lebanon (GLL), Dyketactics, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Gay Era
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster. PA) - November 1976
Date: October 1976
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: Gay Era, Dyketactics, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - October 1976
Date: July 1976
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Homophobia, PA House Bill 2220
Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Era
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - July 1976
Date: June 1976
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Gay Era, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), West Chester Gays, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - June 1976
Date: March 1976
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance, PA State Employee Antidiscrimination Proclamation
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Gay League of Lebanon (GLL), Gay Era, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Humans Relations Commission, Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), Governor's Gay Task Force, Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - March 1976
Date: May 1976
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: PA Senate Bill 743, PA House Bill 2220, Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: Gay Era, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), Gay Education Committee, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU), Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Gays and Lesbians of Lebanon (GLL), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Northeastern PA Gay Alliance (NEPGA), Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - May 1976
Date: February 1975
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance, Feminism
Organizations: Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Dignity/Central PA, Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), Women Oriented Women (WOW), Gay Era, Peer Counseling Program, Governor's Gay Task Force, Lesbian Discussion Group (Lancaster), Gay Community Services of Harrisburg
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - February 1975
Date: May 13, 1976
PA Rural Cay Caucus press release disucssing the formation of a permanenet legislative committee, with it's first focus on lobbying for the repeal of Sodomy Statutes.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Press Release - May 13, 1976
Date: August 19, 1978
In these Meeting Minutes, motion to dissovle the PA Rural Gay Caucus as a formal organization is passed. Agenda concerns next steps of group.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: Gay Support Network, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), National Gay Task Force (NGTF)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Meeting Minutes - August 19, 1978
Date: November 6, 1976
As described in the by-laws, "The Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus is 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 goal is to...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
Date: April 1983
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. The newsletter...
Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter
Topics:
Organizations:
Date: April 1976
The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance, PA House Bill 2220
Organizations: Gay Era, PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - April 1976
Date: Summer 1979
Calendar of events hosted by Dignity/Central PA during the summer of 1979.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Summer with Dignity/Central PA, 1979
Date: circa 1976
Brochure explaining Dignity/Central PA's mission. Dignity is:
- a forum for human concerns
- a seeking for greater self
- knowledge and wisdom
- an affirmation of one's sexual orientation in faith
- personal ministry...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Dignity/Central PA, Brochure - circa 1976
Date: April 29, 2015
Joy (Ufema) Counsel was raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania. After completing high school, Joy began studies to become a nurse at the Altoona Hospital, and later completed a nursing program at Harrisburg Area Community College. Joy worked in numerous...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: York Hospice House (York, PA)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 116: Joy (Ufema) Counsel
Date: 1976
Photograph of members of PA Rural Gay Caucus with their banner at the 1976 Philadelphia Gay Pride Parade. Identified people from left to right: Richard Hoffman (with GSC Berks flag), Joe Burns, Jerry Brennan, and Sam Deetz. Photograph by Bari Lee...
Collection: LGBT-011 - Deetz
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
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Date: 1988
Trophy won by the Harrisburg Hustlers volleyball team in 1988. Plaque on the trophy reads "Charm City Invitational 3rd Place 1988."
Collection: LGBT-010 - Wilson
Topics:
Organizations: Harrisburg Hustlers Volleyball Team
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Date: March 1977
Keystone is an educational and communication feature of Dignity/Central PA Inc. Noteworthy articles in this issue:
- "Treasurer's Report" (p. 2)
- "Workshop"...Coming Out! (p. 5)
- "Notes from the President" (p. 5) ...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Dignity/Central PA, Coming Out
Organizations: Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), Friend's Meeting House, Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Keystone (Dignity/Central PA) - March 1977