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Human Rights Ordinance
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
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Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - February 1975
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
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
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
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
May 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: Human Rights Ordinance, PA Senate Bill 531, Sodomy Laws
Organizations: Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Gay Awareness of Millersville State College, National Gay Task Force (NGTF)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - May 1977
August 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 a type of newsletter...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Humans Relations Commission
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - August 1977
October 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 a type of newsletter...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Citizens Organized for Decency (C.O.D.)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - October 1977
November 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: Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: Parents of Gays, Gay Era, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - November 1977
December 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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance, PA Gay Rights Bill
Organizations: National Gay Task Force (NGTF), Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Lehigh Valley Coalition for Human Rights, Church of the Brethren/Mennonite Church Gay Caucus, Gay Era, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - December 1977
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
July 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 spread out across...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns Periodicals
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance, Coming Out
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Citizens Concerned for a Better Community (CCBC)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - June 1978
July/August 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, Coming Out
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - July/August 1978
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
September 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 spread out across...
1985
Document created by Jerry Brennan and Richard Hill recording the history and development of Dignity/Central PA as an organization in Harrisburg from July 1975 to June 1985.
Collection: LGBT-053 - Hause
Topics: Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA, Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), Lesbian Rap Group, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), Women Alive, Sisters in Gay Ministry (SIGMA), Evangelicals Concerned (Gay and Lesbian Evangelicals), Gay Community Services of Harrisburg, CONTACT, Dignity/Northeast PA, Brethren and Mennonite Council for Gay Concerns
View Item: History of Dignity/Central PA - 1985
August 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: Human Rights Ordinance, Hate Crimes Bill, Tongues Untied
Organizations: York Hospice House (York, PA), Lancaster Unity Coalition
August 28, 2013
Born in Chicago, IL in 1949 to a Catholic family, Mary Merriman joined the Air Force in 1967, where she struggled with her sexuality due to the environment, eventually becoming pregnant and discharging from the military before giving her son up...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs, Human Rights Ordinance
Organizations: MCC Vision of Hope
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 081: Mary Merriman
