PA Rural Gay Caucus

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 Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Bryant in Reading" (p. 1)
• "Bryant Appears in Reading" (p. 2)
• "Minister Advocates Rizzo Tactics in Lancaster" (p. 2)
• "Bomb Threat in State College" (p. 5)
• "Open Letter from the Political Caucus of HOPS" (p. 8)
• "Blooomsburg Gay Group" (p. 18)
• "Rural Resources" (p. 24)

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 Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "State of the Union" (p. 2)
• "Conference Snowed Out" (p. 4)
• "Self-Oppression Part III" (p. 9)
• "Rural Resouces" (p. 11)
• "Gay Swtichboard Ready to Listen, Help" (p. 14)
• "State's Speaker Bureau" (p.21)

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 Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

- Conference Site Found (p.4)
- Affirmative Action Plans Sent to Governor Shapp (p.4)
- New Members to Governor's Council (p.5)
- Rural Resources (p.10)
- Pride '78 (p.19)

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 Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

- National Gay Blue Jeans Day Held in State College (p.4)
- Allentown Battle: State Conference in Limbo (p.4)
- PA Rural Gay Resource List (p.10)
- Martin Rock (p.14)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (p.24)
- PDE Supports Affirmative Action for Gays (p.25)

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 Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• Sodomy Repeal Lacks Support in Pennsylvania (p.4)
• Council Files Report of First Year Progress (p.4)
• Gay Activists Beaten (p.5)
• MCC Community Center (p.5)
• PA Rural Gay Resource List (p.11)
• The Flordia Follies Finale (p.12)
• Gains Made on State College Campuses (p.22)

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 Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• What to do about Anita Bryant (p.8)
• Gay Religious Leaders Deplore Anita Bryant's Misleading Use of Bible (p.9)
• PA Rural Gay Resource List (p.13)
• Over the Back Fence (p.15)
• Dyke Cooper (p.18)

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 Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "PA Rural Gay Resource List" (p. 6)
• "Altland's Ranch: Mardi Gras" (p. 9)
• "News Commentary" (p. 11)
• "Barry Kohn Speaking in Harrisburg, 'I'm Bisexual and Proud of My Gayness" (p. 11)

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 Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Aid Sought in Contracts Wording by State Minority Council" (p. 2)
• National Bill (p. 2)
• "Senate Bill 83" (p. 9)
• "PA Rural Gay Resource List" (p. 10)
• "Gay Couple Denied Use of Campus Chapel" (p. 22)

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 Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "State Council for Sexual Minorities Establishes Complaint Center" (p. 2)
• "Equality for Gays Voted at West Chester State" (p. 2)
• "Rural Caucus Meets in State College" (p. 7)
• "Villanova University's Gays Still Deep in Closet" (p. 7)
• "So There Are No Sexual Minority Materials in Textbooks" (p. 10)
• "Reasons for Repeal of Pennsylvania's Voluntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse (Sodomy) Statute" (p. 15)
• H.O.W. [Homophiles of Williamsport] (p. 17)
• " 'Prissy' Off-Stage in Marietta" (p. 22)
• "Rural Gay Resource List" (p. 23)

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 Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Rural Caucus" (p. 2)
• "Coming Out" (p. 5)
• "Dyke Cooper" (p. 6)
• "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (p. 8)
• "Rural Gay Resource List" (p. 15)

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 Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Pennsylvania Gay Pride Week: Legislators Freak Out" (p.3)
• "Dyke Cooper" (p.6)
• "Gay Pride Seventy-Six" (p.8)
• "Rural Caucus Report" (p.10)

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 Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• In the News (p.3)
• Rural Caucus Report (p.6)
• "James Dean: Was He or Wasn't He?" (p.5)
• Stonewall Remembered (p.10)

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 Central PA. This is an anniversary issue. Noteworthy news in this issue includes:

• "State Hiring Regulations" (p.3)
• "Dyke Cooper" (p. 5)
• Rural Caucus Report (p. 7)
• "Shapp and Shrinks" (p. 9)
• "Reading (PA) Items" (p. 9) 
• "Council on Sexual Minorities" (p. 10)
• "Lebanon Items [Gay League of Lebanon]" (p. 11)
• "Pennsylvania Gays - It's Time" (p. 12)

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 Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• "Wheatland Zapped" (p. 4)
• "Rural Caucus Report" (p. 5)
• "State College [PA]" (p. 5)
• "Reading [PA]" (p. 5)
• "A Personal Expression of Gay Oppression from Lancaster, PA" (p. 12)
• "Northumberland [PA]" (p. 13)

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 Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• Gay Health Column (p.5)
• After a Year of Activism (p.6)
• Rural Caucus Meeting (p.7)
• Philadelphia Bill Defeated (p.7)
• Phila. Gay News Begins Publishing (p.7)
• GUL Holds Election of Officers (p.8)
• GUL Co-Sponsors Phila. Conference (p.8)
• Date Set For Gay Lobby Day (p.8)
• Dyke Cooper Comes to Town (p.9)
• Of Interest to Gay Women (W.O.W.) (p.9)
• Plant-Nite at Marietta Avenue (p.19)
• State Police Investigating Blackmail Racket (p.20)
• New Peer Counseling Program Begins (p.20)
• Constructing Gay Pride or Bari's Five Steps to Sainthood (p.23)

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.

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 be achieved through and exchange of information, cooperation with other interested individuals and groups, action on the part of the association, encouragement of action and representation on the part of individuals and groups, and the sharing of resources."

The bylaws include information on membership, general meetings, officers, elections, committees, the mailing list, public relations, emergencies, and how to deal with resolutions to amend the bylaws themselves

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 Central PA.

This issue was labeled incorrectly, and should be April 1976. Noteworthy news in this issue: 

• "Supreme Court Says 'Nay' on Gay" (p. 1)
• "Rural Caucus Report" (p. 5)
• "Governor's Council on Sexual Minorities" (p. 8)
• "Gay Education Day" (p. 12)

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 Weaver.