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Gittings, Barbara
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
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Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - April 1976
August 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, Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU), Coalition of Gay Activities
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - August 1976
April 27, 1979
The Pennsylvania Governor’s Council for Sexual Minorites was an officially appointed advisory committee created by Governor Milton J. Shapp in 1976. Governor Shapp, by executive order, declared that all executive branch offices and services were...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Speaker's Bureau, Prison Project
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, US Civil Rights Commission
View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - April 27, 1979
April 1984
Founded in 1968 in California, the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) began as a Christian outreach to meet the needs of the LGBTQ+ community. MCC Harrisburg (later renamed MCC of the Spirit) and MCC Lancaster (later renamed MCC Vision of Hope)...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: MCC Harrisburg, MCC Lancaster
View Item: MCC Freedom Newsletter - April 1984
May 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...
Collection: LGBT-009 - Lavender Letter
Topics:
Organizations: MCC Lancaster
View Item: Lavender Letter (Harrisburg, PA) - May 1984
