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National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
April 1978
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:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Era, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), Gay Persons of Bloomsburg (GPB), Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
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Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - April 1978
April 7 - 9, 1978
Minutes from the entirity of Pride'78, a statewide gay rights conference.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), National Gay Task Force (NGTF), Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW)
View Item: Pride '78 Minutes - April 7 - 9, 1978
May 1978
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: Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: Center County Minority Rights Democratic Club, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), National Gay Task Force (NGTF), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Gay Awareness of Millersville State College
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - May 1978
May 1978
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - May 1978
October 1978
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics: Harassment
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Here's How (Williamsport, PA) - October 1978
November 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), Persad Center
May 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, PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network (PALGSN), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - May 1983
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
December 1984
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, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
June 1985
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: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Feminist Integrity for Wellness, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - June 1985
October 9, 2013
Born in 1951, Mary Nancarrow grew up in the Harrisburg area, and from a young age, she has been involved in the movements for LGBT and women’s rights, especially for Central Pennsylvania. She has worked extensively with NOW, serving as the...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Women's Rights
Organizations: Pennsylvania NOW, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 084A: Mary Nancarrow
February 24, 2015
Mary Nancarrow grew up in a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the 1950s and 1960s with divorced parents and two siblings. After graduating from Shippensburg University, she became prominent in the women’s movement and the LGBT movement in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Feminism, Coming Out
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 084B: Mary Nancarrow
March 29, 2015
Cindy Lou Mitzel was born in April of 1942 in York County, Pennsylvania as the youngest in a big family. Growing up, Cindy knew that she felt attraction towards women but married a man just after graduating from high school and had three children...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), Lesbian Alliance, Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), Central PA Womyn's Chorus
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 083: Cindy Lou Mitzel
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
