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Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
February 1990
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...
November 1991
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:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, York Hospice House (York, PA)
February 1991
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: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
April 10, 1992
The Pride Festival of Central PA is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Pennsylvania region. Founded in 1992, the festival takes place every year on the last Saturday of July in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
Collection: LGBT-014 - Loveland
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: 
First Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival of Central PA Announcement Letter - April 10, 1992
July 1992
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: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Lesbian Wellness Project, Infinity, South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN)
View Item: Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - July 1992
July 26, 1992
The Pride Festival of Central PA is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Pennsylvania region. Founded in 1992, the festival takes place every year on the last Saturday of July in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
Collection: LGBT-014 - Loveland
Topics:
Organizations: Harrisburg Men's Chorus, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Lily White & Company, MCC of the Spirit
View Item: Pride Festival of Central PA Program, 1992 - July 26, 1992
January 1993
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: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
February 1993
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: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Her Story Bookstore
March/April 1993
York Area LAMBDA newsletter discussing local issues and the specifically the anti-discrimination ordinance that was passed by the York City Council to include sexual orientation.
York Area LAMBDA, started in the 1990s and originally known...
Collection: LGBT-080 - Welch
Topics:
Organizations: York Area LAMBDA, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
July 25, 1993
The Pride Festival of Central PA is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Pennsylvania region. Founded in 1992, the festival takes place every year on the last Saturday of July in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
Collection: LGBT-014 - Loveland
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Lily White & Company
View Item: Central PA Pride Festival Brochure '93 - July 25, 1993
May/June 1994
The Pride Festival of Central PA is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Pennsylvania region. Founded in 1992, the festival takes place every year on the last Saturday of July in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
Collection: LGBT-014 - Loveland
Topics:
Organizations: Pride Coalition of Central PA, Harrisburg Men's Chorus, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: The Pride Newsletter - May/June 1994
September 2001
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: The Center for Women's Creative Expression, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - September 2001
March 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
Topics:
Organizations: The Center for Women's Creative Expression, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
July 27, 2002
The Pride Festival of Central PA is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Pennsylvania region. Founded in 1992, the festival takes place every year on the last Saturday of July in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
Collection: LGBT-021 - LGBT Center of Central PA
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, MCC of the Spirit, Equity for Gays and Lesbians (EGAL)
View Item: The Official Central PA Pride Guide, Pride Fest 2002 - July 27, 2002
May 22, 2007
The Pride Festival of Central PA is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in the Central Pennsylvania region. Founded in 1992, the festival takes place every year on the last Saturday of July in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
Collection: LGBT-021 - LGBT Center of Central PA
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Harrisburg Men's Chorus
View Item: Dine Out with Pride, Central PA PrideFest Unity Parade Fundraiser Brochure - May 22, 2007
March 28, 2013
For the very first interview of the history project, Edmund Good and Thurman Grossnickle describe their coming out stories. Thurman is a retired Scientist Administrator and has spent many years in academia and in health professions, as well as in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 042: Edmund ''Ed'' Good and Thurman Grossnickle, part 1, Transcription of LGBT Oral History 042: Edmund ''Ed'' Good and Thurman Grossnickle, part 2
1978 - 2012
The bulk of the collection consists of buttons, ribbons, and t-shirts from LGBT events. It also contains documentation of the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg and Dignity of Central PA. Several of the items in this collection relate the...
Collection: LGBT-014 - Loveland
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Dignity/Central PA
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-014 Barry Loveland Collection Inventory
circa 2008 & 2010
Marlene Kanuck was born in 1949 in Hazleton, PA. Kanuck was a founder of the LGBT Center of Central PA, served as Vice President of the Central Pennsylvania Womyn’s Chorus, and was involved in a Harrisburg-area lesbian group called the...
Collection: LGBT-050 - Kanuck
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-050 Marlene Kanuck Collection
2004 - 2007
This collection contains documents from the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg (GLSH). Items include a Fall Achievement Benefit Program, information on the Alternative Central (a LGBTQ+ positive publication published by the GLSH), GLSH...
Collection: LGBT-052 - Anonymous
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-052 Anonymous Collection
1979, 1980 - 2009
Colin Kreitzer was born in 1947 in Enola, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Wormleysburg, PA with his parents and his younger sister. He attended West Chester College (now West Chester University) and moved to Harrisburg in 1977, where he began...
Collection: LGBT-061 - Kreitzer
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Dignity/Central PA, MCC of the Spirit
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-061 Colin Kreitzer Collection
1946, 1970 - 2017
John Barns was born in Perry County, PA. He graduated from Greenwood High School in 1960 and then joined the Pennsylvania National Guard during the Vietnam War, where he was in the armored tank division. After discharging from the military, Barns...
Collection: LGBT-015 - Barns
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Dignity/Central PA
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-015 John R. Barns Collection
circa 1985, 1991
This collection contains a 1991 Gay and Lesbian Guide to Central PA from the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg (GLSH) and a Gay Trivia Game. O’Leary also donated a run of The Advocate magazine, from 1985 – 1991, which is housed...
Collection: LGBT-016 - O'Leary
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-016 Gary O'Leary Collection
