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Politics and Government
circa 1994
Sign-up sheet for the Lesbian/Gay/Straight Alliance in York County.
Collection: LGBT-080 - Welch
Topics:
Organizations: Lesbian/Gay/Straight Alliance
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The Lesbians/Gay/Straight Alliance interest and sign-up sheet - circa 1994
July 20, 1995
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-014 - Loveland
Topics:
Organizations: Pink Triangle Coalition (PTC), York Area LAMBDA, Central PA Womyn's Chorus, Lily White & Company, Pride Coalition of Central PA
View Item: Crossroads Magazine Premier Issue Sneak Peak - July 30, 1995
May/June 1996
York Area LAMBDA monthly newsletter with focus on Peg (Stoppard) Welch resigning as President.
York Area LAMBDA, started in the 1990s and originally known as York Support Inc., was an educational, political, and social group for the LGBTQ...
Collection: LGBT-080 - Welch
Topics:
Organizations: York Area LAMBDA
View Item: York Area LAMBDA Newsletter - May/June 1996
June/July 1996
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
Topics:
Organizations: Lily White & Company
View Item: Crossroads Magazine - June/July 1996
August/September 1996
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
Topics:
Organizations: Harrisburg Men's Chorus
View Item: Crossroads Magazine - August/September 1996
October/November 1996
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
Topics: AIDS Memorial Quilt
Organizations: The Names Project, Bi, Gay, Lesbian Youth Association of Harrisburg (Bi-GLYAH)
View Item: Crossroads Magazine - October/November 1996
October 1996
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...
December 1996/January 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
Topics: HIV/AIDs, AIDS Memorial Quilt
Organizations: South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN), York Hospice House (York, PA)
circa 1977
Civil Rights March in Harrisburg, PA, late 1970s. Photo by Bari Weaver.
Collection: LGBT-041 - Edmiston
Topics:
Organizations: Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU)
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March 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: National Civil Rights Bill, PA Senate Bill 83
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Gay Era, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - March 1977
April 13, 1997
York Lesbian Alliance meeting minutes focusing on the York City School District Anti-Discrimination Policy and adding sex/sexual orientation to hate crimes status.
York Lesbian Alliance was started by Peg (Stoppard) Welch in the 1990s.
Collection: LGBT-080 - Welch
Topics:
Organizations: York Lesbian Alliance
View Item: York Lesbian Alliance Meeting Minutes - April 13, 1997
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
Topics:
Organizations: Lily White & Company, York Area LAMBDA
View Item: Crossroads Magazine - October/November 1997
November 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...
May 24, 2013
From the time Joseph "Joe" W. Burns came out as gay at around 27 years of age, he was involved in gay activism. He was a part of many organizations that have helped to move gay rights forward, including the Mattachine Society and Le-Hi-Ho. He...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Mattachine Society of New York
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 012A: Joseph W. Burns
June 4, 2013
Prior to coming out at the age of 32, Ted Martin had worked for many years for the government and public policy organizations, chiefly in the areas of communications and advocacy. Martin lived in Washington, D.C. and worked for Congress before...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Equality PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 074: Ted Martin
October 9, 2013
Born in 1951, Mary Nancarrow grew up in the Harrisburg area, and from a young age, she has been involved in the movements for LGBT and women’s rights, especially for Central Pennsylvania. She has worked extensively with NOW, serving as the...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Women's Rights
Organizations: Pennsylvania NOW, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 084A: Mary Nancarrow
October 27, 2013
Samuel Deetz was born in Quakertown (Pennsylvania), in 1951, on April 21 and was one of eight children. Sam’s father became a minister, which allowed his family to move from place to place over Sam’s young life. Sam’s family...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 025: Sam Deetz
March 14, 2014
Teresa “Teddy” Maurer was born in Lykens, Pennsylvania. Following a move to Upper Dauphin County, she grew up and graduated from Halifax High School. From there she worked at the Nedrich shirt factory for a few years before moving onto a job with...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 077: Teresa ''Teddy'' Maurer
July 22, 2014
Alanna Berger and Blaise Liffick are the co-founders of the Silent Witness Peacekeepers Organization. Alanna was born in 1954 in Hummelstown, PA. Before committing full time to Silent Witness, Alanna by profession worked as a systems analyst...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Silent Witness Peacekeepers Organization
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 007: Alanna Berger and Blaise Liffick
July 29, 2014
Ann Van Dyke was born in a farming community in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where she was raised in a devout Methodist home. After moving to Mechanicsburg to work at the Methodist Home for Children at age 19, Ann was exposed to the more...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: PA State Human Relations Commission
Organizations: Equality PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 118: Ann Van Dyke
July 20, 2016
Mark Segal is a gay rights activist, author, and journalist for the Philadelphia Gay News. In this interview, Mark discusses his political involvement in the gay rights movement in Pennsylvania in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Particularly, he focuses...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations:
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 103: Mark Segal
1978 - 2012
The bulk of the collection consists of buttons, ribbons, and t-shirts from LGBT events. It also contains documentation of the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg and Dignity of Central PA. Several of the items in this collection relate the...
Collection: LGBT-014 - Loveland
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Dignity/Central PA
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-014 Barry Loveland Collection Inventory
September 21, 2016
Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He grew up in a working-class, Italian neighborhood and is familiar with stigma. He began identifying as gay in the sixth grade, but went through school still in the closet. After high...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Eromin Center (Philadelphia)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 107: Anthony Silvestre
March 5, 2017
Patricia ''Pat'' Mastandrea Sanders was a hair stylist in Boston before moving up to advertising and marketing for 300 salons across the country. One fateful day she slipped on an ice cube and hit her head. Her life changed forever. Unable to...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Lancaster AIDS Project, The Betty Finney House
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 100: Patricia ''Pat'' Saunders
April 25, 2017
Kerry Wiessman was born on October 26, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She grew up in Wayne, New Jersey in a lake community. Kerry discusses her upbringing in a large family and her relationship with her mother. Kerry also discusses her career in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Affirming Interfaith Network
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 125: Kerry Wiessman
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