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Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho)
1960s to 1980s
This collection documents the earliest known organizational history of the LGBTQ+ community in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley region. The Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization ("Le-Hi-Ho") held its first meeting on June 22, 1969. The goal of the...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho)
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November 1975
Founded in December of 1974, the Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading, PA (GCS Berks) was a LGBTQ+ activist organization in the Berks County area and a fundamental part of the Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus. The...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Gay Coordinating Society (GCS) Berks Art Alliance, Governor's Gay Task Force
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Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks) Newsletter - November 1975
November 1975
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. The report/newsletter was used as outreach to...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA Senate Bill 743, PA House Bill 196
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Governor's Gay Task Force, Gays United Lancaster (GUL), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - November 1975
January 1976
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. The report/newsletter was used as outreach to...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA House Bill 196, PA Senate Bill 743
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - January 1976
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
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
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
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter from the Editor - October 1976
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.”
...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Meeting Minutes - October 1976
October 1976
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. The newsletter was used as outreach to the...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - October 1976
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
December 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.” The newsletter was used as outreach to the...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Voluntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse Status
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Alcoholics Anonymous, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Northeastern PA Gay Alliance (NEPGA), Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - December 1976
January 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.” The report was used as...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Repeal Bill, PA Senate Bill 83
Organizations: Lebanon High School, Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Gay Era, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - January 1977
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
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho)
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
July 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: Dignity/Central PA, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - July 1983
May 24, 2013
From the time Joseph "Joe" W. Burns came out as gay at around 27 years of age, he was involved in gay activism. He was a part of many organizations that have helped to move gay rights forward, including the Mattachine Society and Le-Hi-Ho. He...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Mattachine Society of New York
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 012A: Joseph W. Burns
October 15, 2014
Joseph "Joe" W. Burns is an LGBT activist who actively participated in LGBT organizations, marches, and protests especially throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s. In this interview, Joe discusses his involvement in several of those LGBT and women’s...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Feminism, Lancaster City Ordinance
Organizations: Allentown NOW, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 012B: Joseph W. Burns
1968 - 2015; Bulk Dates 1970 - 1980
Joseph W. Burns started to donate these materials in 2013 as the first contribution of historical documents to the LGBT Center of Central PA History Project. These materials reflect his involvement in, and document, LGBTQ+ activism in Central PA...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA Senate Bill 531, PA Senate Bill 83
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Citizens Concerned for a Better Community (CCBC), Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network (PALGSN), PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection, Appendix: Bibliography of books donated by Joseph W. Burns
