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2018
Since August 2012 the LGBT History Project of the LGBT Center of Central PA has actively collected stories of LGBT history in central PA as told by those who lived them. This growing collection of oral history interviews is housed by the...
1960s to 1980s
This collection documents the earliest known organizational history of the LGBTQ+ community in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley region. The Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization ("Le-Hi-Ho") held its first meeting on June 22, 1969. The goal of the...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho)
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circa 1970 to circa 2000
Dignity/Central PA's is a forum for human concerns, a place of seeking for greater self, knowledge, and wisdom, an affirmation of one's sexual orientation in faith, and personal ministry.
This scrapbook was created by Steven Leshner, a...
Collection: LGBT-029 - Leshner
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
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Dignity/Central PA Scrapbook - circa 1970 to circa 2000, Dignity/Central PA Scrapbook Detailed Inventory
October 7, 1971
Letter from Williams James stating his opinion on the American O. Church.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) District of Columbia
View Item: Letter to St. Mary Magdalen Parish from William James - October 7, 1971
circa 1974
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.
This is a flyer...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
1975
Letter announcing the 1975 Pennsylvania State Gay Conference, a statewide gay rights conference which was later known as Pride.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Activist Alliance of Philadelphia
View Item: Pride '75 Mark Segal Conference Announcement - 1975
1975 to 1978
Correspondences and information on Pride Conference speakers from 1975 to 1978. Some correspondences are handwritten.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations:
View Item: Pride Conference Speaker Correspondences and Information - 1975 to1978
circa 1975
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: Community Outreach
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: Rural Gay Caucus Flyer - circa 1975
February 1975
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, Feminism
Organizations: Gay Switchboard of Lancaster, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Dignity/Central PA, Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), Women Oriented Women (WOW), Gay Era, Peer Counseling Program, Governor's Gay Task Force, Lesbian Discussion Group (Lancaster), Gay Community Services of Harrisburg
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - February 1975
April 1975
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
View Item: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks) Newsletter - April 1975
October 1975
Registration and schedule for the Bicentennial Conference on Gays and the Federal Government Conference in Washington D.C. on October 10-14, 1975.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
View Item: Bicentennial Conference on Gays and the Federal Government Registration and Schedule - October 1975
October 17 - 18, 1975
Program for the first Pennsylvania State Gay Conference, a statewide gay rights conference which was later known as Pride.
November 1975
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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), PA Rural Gay Caucus, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Gays United Lancaster (GUL), Gay Coordinating Society (GCS) Berks Art Alliance, Governor's Gay Task Force
View Item: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks) Newsletter - November 1975
November 1975
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 report/newsletter was used as outreach to...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA Senate Bill 743, PA House Bill 196
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), Governor's Gay Task Force, Gays United Lancaster (GUL), PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Report - November 1975
November 11, 1975
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...
November 27, 1975
Letter from Sam Deetz to members of the Susquehanna Valley Gay Organization (SVGU) about Gay Lobby Day planning.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Letter to Susquehanna Valley Gay Organization (SVGU) from Sam Deetz - November 27, 1975
![Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks) Newsletter - December [1975]](https://archives.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/artifacts_browse/public/image_lgbt/GCS-Berks_%5B1975%5D-12.jpg?itok=oYB2MrYD "Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks) Newsletter - December [1975]")
December [1975]
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...
![Aaron Spicher and Ted [Hogonvesher] at Philadelphia Gay Pride – 1976](https://archives.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/artifacts_browse/public/image_lgbt/Dignity_Scrapbook_03_p03_0.jpg?itok=4v1iiwy0 "Aaron Spicher and Ted [Hogonvesher] at Philadelphia Gay Pride – 1976")
1976
This is a photo of Aaron Spicher and Ted Hogonvesher at Philadelphia Gay Pride in 1976. This picture is found on page 4 of the PDF of the Dignity/Central PA Scrapbook.
Dignity/Central PA is a forum for human concerns, a place of seeking...
circa 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.
Memo announcing...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks)
View Item: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks) Speakers Bureau Memo - circa 1976
1976
This is a collection of recruitment flyers and letters created by the Gay Lobby Day Committee for Gay Lobby Day held on March 23, 1976.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA Senate Bill 743, PA House Bill 196
Organizations:
View Item: Gay Lobby Day Committee Recruitment Flyers - 1976
1976
This is a copy of the informal report of Gay Lobby Day that was held on March 23, 1976 in Harrisburg, PA. There are also two correspondences included between William F. Hollabaugh to Artemis House, asking about lobbying suggestions and if the Gay...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA House Bill 196, PA Senate Bill 743
Organizations:
View Item: Gay Lobby Day Informal Report Packet - 1976
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. This Gay Liberation Stamp...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), Gay Coordinating Society (GCS) Berks Art Alliance
View Item: GCS Berks Gay Liberation Stamp Design - 1976
circa 1976
Janet Cooper (left) and Sam Deetz (right), members of the PA Rural Gay Caucus, in late 1975 or early 1976.
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."
Flow chart of how information spreads...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus
View Item: PA Rural Gay Caucus Chart - 1976
1976
This is a photo of PA Rural Gay Caucus members at the Philadelphia Gay Pride in 1976. Members include Aaron Spicher (with the Dignity Banner), Joe Burns, Richard Hoffman (with GCS Berks Banner), Sam Deetz (turned away from the camera) and Jerry...
Collection: LGBT-029 - Leshner
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, Dignity/Central PA
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