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October 17 - 18, 1975
Program for the first Pennsylvania State Gay Conference, a statewide gay rights conference which was later known as Pride.
February 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: Pro-Gay Executive Orders, Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW)
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Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - February 1977
January 20 - 22, 1978
Brochure and Registration Materials for Pride '78, a statewide gay rights conference.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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View Item: Pride '78 Brochure and Registration Materials - January 20 - 22, 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
April 7 - 9, 1978
Due to inclement wheather, Pride '78, a statewide gay rights conference, was rescheduled from January 20 - 22 to April 7 - 9. This document contains the updated Brochure and Regsitration info.
Collection: LGBT-074 - Silvestre
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: Rescheduled Pride '78 Brochure and Registration - April 7 - 9, 1978
October 19 - 21, 1979
Brochure and Registration for Pride '79, a statewide gay rights conference.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network (PALGSN)
View Item: Pride '79 Brochure and Registration - October 19 - 21, 1979
October 3 -5 , 1980
Brochure and Registration for Pride '80, a statewide gay rights conference.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network (PALGSN)
View Item: Pride '80 Brochure and Registration - October 3 - 5, 1980
November 1981
The GSH Newsletter is an outreach feature of the Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg. Noteworthy articles in this issue are:
- "San Francisco Olympics"
- "New Newsletter"
- "Students Talk Back" presents letters on human...
Collection: LGBT-061 - Kreitzer
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Organizations: Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), MCC Harrisburg
View Item: GSH Newsletter - November 1981
April 1990 to January 1991
SCAAN supported patients with HIV/AIDs to navigate welfare, social security, and financial concerns, as well as providing medical supplies and assisting patients with a verity of task, ranging from light housekeeping to assisting terminal...
Collection: LGBT-005 - Dierkers
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN)
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October/November 1997
Crossroads Magazine was a bi-monthly local LGBTQ+ magazine created, edited, and published by Dr. Eric Selvey. The goal of Crossroads was to bring together the LGBTQ+ community of Central Pennsylvania by creating a space to showcase the efforts...
Collection: LGBT-013 - Selvey
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Organizations: Lily White & Company, York Area LAMBDA
View Item: Crossroads Magazine - October/November 1997
March 2002
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
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Organizations: The Center for Women's Creative Expression, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
October 25, 2007
Founded in 1994, the Central PA Womyn’s Chorus “brings together a diverse group of women, united by the joy of singing, to celebrate and empower women and to affirm a positive image of lesbians and feminists.”
This event program is from the...
July 1, 2013
Born in 1949 to a Lutheran minister and his wife, Marlene Kanuck married a man, had two children, and got a divorce after 11 years of marriage before realizing that she was a lesbian. In this interview, she discusses her coming out process and...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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Organizations: Common Roads
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 054: Marlene Kanuck
March 22, 2014
Barry Loveland was born December 28th, 1956 in Schenectady, New York. After graduating from high school, Barry attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he obtained a Bachelors of Science degree in Architecture and Building Sciences....
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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Organizations: Common Roads, Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 070: Barry Loveland
March 24, 2015
Joy Verner was born in 1963 and grew up in Franklin Pennsylvania near Erie, Pa. Joy was one of three children and a mother and a father. She relocated to central Pennsylvania during graduate school where she attended school near Shippensburg. She...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 119: Joy Verner
March 29, 2015
Louie Marven moved to central Pennsylvania from his hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York to attend Messiah College in 2003 and has lived in the Harrisburg area ever since. The school’s conservative values and prohibition of “homosexual behavior...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, Common Roads
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 076: Louie Marven
October 27, 2016
Hannah-Smith Brubaker was born in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and spent most of her childhood in Port Allegany, McKean County. She began to identify as a lesbian at the start of college, and she entered the political sphere for the first time...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
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View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 109: Hannah Smith-Brubaker
March 19, 2017
Deb Fulham-Winston was born in 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in an Irish-Catholic family with eight siblings, and spent the first half of her schooling in Catholic school. Early on, she had a strong conviction for feminism and social...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 040: Debra Fulham-Winston
June 9, 2017
Marty Tornblom was born in Utah and was raised in the greater Salt Lake City area, as a member of the Mormon Church. She decided to get a degree in education which lead her to teaching. Following her marriage, she converted to Presbyterianism and...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 114: Marty Tornblom
October 4, 2017
Barry Loveland interviews Alex Reber, now 32, who relates fascinating stories of what it was like growing up as an only child of an Evangelical Christian family raised on a farm in Bethel, a rural town between Harrisburg and Allentown and...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 097: Alex Reber
2007-2012
This collection contains chapter information regarding the Southern Eastern Pennsylvania chapter of the Renaissance Education Association, Inc. (ROSE), a non-profit transgender support organization. This collection also includes newsletters...
Collection: LGBT-059 - ROSE
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Organizations: Renaissance Education Association, Inc.
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-059 Renaissance of Southern Eastern PA Collection
2018
The Keystone Conference is a program for transgender individuals and their allies that has been held annually in Pennsylvania since 2009. The items in this collection include programs from previous conferences and vendor materials from the 2018...
Collection: LGBT-077 - Keystone Conference
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-077 Keystone Conference Collection
2004 - 2007
This collection contains documents from the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg (GLSH). Items include a Fall Achievement Benefit Program, information on the Alternative Central (a LGBTQ+ positive publication published by the GLSH), GLSH...
Collection: LGBT-052 - Anonymous
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Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-052 Anonymous Collection
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Amanda Porter [now known as Amanda Hecker] was born in 1950 in Lansdale, PA and was assigned male at birth. She attended Grove City College, receiving her BA in History, and enrolled in ROTC. After college, she joined the Air Force, and after...
Collection: LGBT-069 - Porter
Topics: Transgender Experiences
Organizations: Renaissance Transgender Association Lehigh Valley Chapter
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-069 Amanda Porter Collection
1971 - 1994
Jan Brittan graduated from Dickinson College in 1971. This collection contains LGBTQ+ periodicals and articles. Brittan also donated books, which are listed in a separate PDF Appendix.
Collection: LGBT-064 - Brittan
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-064 Jan Brittan Collection, LGBT History Project: LGBT-064 Jan Brittan Collection Appendix
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