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April 3, 1976
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
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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
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PA Rural Gay Caucus Meeting Notice - April 3, 1976
April 10, 1976
Members at a PA Rural Gay Caucus Meeting in Wilkes Barre, PA. Photo by Thomas F. Schmidt of Fay L. Broody Studies.
April 17, 1976
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:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Memo - April 17, 1976
April 24, 1976
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:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Legislative Committee Minutes - April 24, 1976
May 1976
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
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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Corrections Subcommittee Report - May 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
May 1976
Members at a PA Rural Gay Caucus Meeting in State College, PA. Members left to right: Pam Erdly, Sam Deetz, Jonathan Smith-Cousins, Tony Silvestre. Photo by Bari Weaver.
May 7, 1976
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:
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: State Employment Committee Meeting Minutes - May 7, 1976
May 8, 1976
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: PA Senate Bill 743, PA House Bill 2220, Hill's Bill
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Legislative Committee Minutes - May 8, 1976
May 10, 1976
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 Rural Gay Caucus...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Repeal Bill, Sodomy Laws
Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Letter - May 10, 1976
May 13, 1976
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.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Press Release - May 13, 1976
May 19, 1976
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: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus - May 19, 1976
May 20, 1976
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:
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Recommendations of the AD HOC Committee - May 20, 1976
May 25, 1976
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA Senate Bill 743, Sodomy Repeal Bill
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Legislation Report - May 25, 1976
May 22, 1976
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: Hill's Bill
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Legislative Committee Minutes - May 22, 1976
May 27, 1976
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: Transgender Education, Hill's Bill
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Agenda and Minutes - May 27, 1976
1976
Picture of Dignity/Central PA member Aaron Spicher at the Philadelphia Gay Pride in 1976. This picture can be found on page 4 of the PDF of the Dignity/Central PA Scrapbook.
Dignity/Central PA's is a forum for human concerns, a place of...
June 1, 1976
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:
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Corrections Subcommittee Newsletter - June 1, 1976
June 1976
Founded in December of 1974, the Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading, PA (GCS Berks) was a LGBTQ+ activist organization in the Berks County area and a fundamental part of the Pennsylvania Rural Gay Caucus. The...
June 1976
Founded in the early 1970’s, Northeast Pennsylvania Gay Alliance (NEPGA) was a major LGBTQ+ group in northeast Pennsylvania. The newsletter was used to relay monthly meeting minutes and upcoming events.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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Organizations: Northeastern PA Gay Alliance (NEPGA)
View Item: Northeast Pennsylvania Gay Alliance (NEPGA) Newsletter - June 1976
![Community [Affairs] Committee Goals - June 2, 1976](https://archives.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/artifacts_browse/public/image_lgbt/GCOSM_Community-Committee-Goals-1976-06-02.jpg?itok=PJKFB32m "Community [Affairs] Committee Goals - June 2, 1976")
June 2, 1976
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:
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Community [Affairs] Committee Goals - June 2, 1976
June 5, 1976
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 flier, the Rural Gay Caucus...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
June 8, 1976
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:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Memo - June 8, 1976
June 12, 1976
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 report, the PA Rural Gay...
June 20, 1976
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: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Memo - June 20, 1976
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