Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - July [7], 1979

Number of Pages
4
Date
July [7], 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 to end discriminatory practices and policies against all LGBTQ+ employees, clients, and program of state services. The proposed council was his instrument guaranteeing the implementation of his decree throughout the Executive Branch of state government.

Minutes from the July [7], 1979 meeting. Minutes include:

  • Schedule for the 1979-80 Council Meetings
  • Proclamation of Gay Pride Week by Governor Thornburgh
  • Pride '79 Conference
  • Alcoholism Update
  • Report on Aging
  • General Announcements
  • Notes updates from smaller committees in the Council
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Gift of Joseph W. Burns
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Location
LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection

Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - June 1979

Number of Pages
25
Date
June 1979

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 Publication" (p. 2)
  • "Gay Pride Week Rapped" (p. 2)
  • "House Condemns Thornburgh for 'Gay Pride Week'" (p. 2)
  • "Switchboard Anniversay" (p. 3)
  • "Penn Acts to Prohibit Discrimination against Gays" (p. 3)
  • "HOPS Blue Jeans Day" (p. 3)
  • "Gay Pride Week Proclamation" (p. 4)
  • "Anti-Gay Bill Proposed" (p. 5)
  • "Culture Shock" (p. 10)
  • "Aries Portfolio" (p. 11)
  • "PA Lawmakers Get No Respect" (p. 13)
  • "Gay Professionals' Licenses Safe" (p. 18)
  • "Human Rights Resolution" (p. 18)
  • "When Lady Gay Was Queen of Conestoga" (p. 18)
  • "Sex and the Government Worker" (p. 19)
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Origin
Gift of Joseph W. Burns
Location
LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Periodicals Collection