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1970-1979
October 19 - 21, 1979
Exhibit Booth and Program Sponsor reservation forms for Pride '79, a statewide gay rights conference.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
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View Item: 
Pride '79 Exhibit and Sponsorship Forms - October 19 - 21, 1979
October 19 - 21, 1979
Advertisement poster for Pride '79, a statewide gay rights conference.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network (PALGSN), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Pride '79 Poster - October 19 - 21, 1979
October 20, 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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Laws
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - October 20, 1979
November 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), Persad Center
November 1979
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. For this newsletter, a...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Northeastern PA Gay Alliance (NEPGA)
View Item: Northeast Pennsylvania Gay Alliance (NEPGA) Newsletter - November 1979
December 1979
Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW) was founded in 1975 to be an educational outreach and social group for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Williamsport, PA area, through monthly meetings, social events, and discussion...
December 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...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Sodomy Laws, Prison Project, Racism, Affirmative Action Plans
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - December 7, 1979
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
1970s to present
These images represent a cross section of the types of materials included in the LGBT Center of Central PA's History Project, which is housed in the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections....
1961-2007
Robert “Bob” Deibler was born on January 20, 1940 in upper Paxton Township in Dauphin County, PA. He graduated from Millersburg Area High School and went on to attend Bloomsburg University with majors in social science and English, and later...
Collection: LGBT-081 - Deibler
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-081 Robert ''Bob'' Deibler Collection
undated
Dignity/Central PA brochure explaining the mission of this Harrisburg, PA chapter of the national Dignity organization. This local chapter was founded in 1975.
Collection: LGBT-036 - Valerio
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Dignity/Central PA Brochure - undated
undated
Membership Application for Dignity/Central PA.
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA
View Item: Membership Application (Dignity/Central PA) - undated
1977-1980
Dan Maneval was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on October 3, 1947. Maneval’s activism included the founding of the Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), the West Branch Gay Support Network, Susquehanna Lambda, Susquehanna Valley Gays United, and...
Collection: LGBT-008 - Maneval
Topics:
Organizations: Homophiles of Williamsport (HOW), Susquehanna Lambda
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-008 Dan Maneval Collection
1961-2015
Sam Edmiston was born on July 17, 1945 in Middleburg, PA. In the April of 1963, Edmiston enrolled in the US Navy, and three weeks after his graduation, went to the Keel United States Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois for recruitment...
Collection: LGBT-041 - Edmiston
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA, Susquehanna Valley Gays United (SVGU)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-041 Sam Edmiston Collection
1973 - 1985
Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He finished his final year of college at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and then attended Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) as a graduate student.
Silvestre was...
Collection: LGBT-074 - Silvestre
Topics:
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-074 Anthony Silvestre Collection
1978-1885
These materials document the holy union of Nancy Datres and Riitta Lukkari. They also contain court documents and a photograph dealing with harassment Datres and Lukkari experienced from their neighbors.
Collection: LGBT-019 - Datres & Lukkari
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-019 Nancy Datres & Riitta Lukkari Collection
1976-1983
This collection contains monthly newsletters produced by the Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg in 1981, and an assortment of buttons documenting LGBTQ+ events and issues.
Collection: LGBT-030 - Riese
Topics:
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA, Gay Switchboard of Harrisburg (GSH)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-030 Bob Riese Collection
1975 - 2010
Samuel Deetz was born in Quakertown, PA on April 21, 1951 and was one of eight children. His father was a minister, so his family moved from place to place throughout his childhood, until they came back to Central PA where Deetz finished high...
1973
Julia “Julie” Lobur was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania in 1955 and moved to Harrisburg in 1970. She received her bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and received a master’s degree in Computer Science in 2003....
Collection: LGBT-049 - Lobur
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-049 Julia ''Julie'' Lobur Collection
circa 1970 - circa 1993
This collection contains an informational flyer on The Lesbian Connection, LGBTQ+ and feminist activist buttons and pins, and LGBTQ+ artist vinyl records.
Collection: LGBT-051 - Laughlin
Topics:
Organizations: The Lesbian Connection (TLC)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-051 Mary Jo Laughlin Collection
1979, 1980 - 2009
Colin Kreitzer was born in 1947 in Enola, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Wormleysburg, PA with his parents and his younger sister. He attended West Chester College (now West Chester University) and moved to Harrisburg in 1977, where he began...
Collection: LGBT-061 - Kreitzer
Topics:
Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Dignity/Central PA, MCC of the Spirit
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-061 Colin Kreitzer Collection
1975, 1980 - 2013
There materials were donated at the Lancaster PA Pride event in June 2013. The collection represents the contributions of Mark Stoner and Mary Merriman, and documents LGBTQ+ issues and activism in Lancaster County, PA.
Of particular...
Collection: LGBT-002 - Lancaster, PA Activism
Topics:
Organizations: Pink Triangle Coalition (PTC)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-002 Lancaster, PA Area Activism Collection
circa 1976
This collection contains an embosser for the PA Governor’s Council for Sexual Minorities. The council was an officially appointed advisory committee created by Governor Milton J. Shapp in 1976. Governor Shapp, by executive order, declared that...
Collection: LGBT-063 - PA State Archives Transfer
Topics:
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-063 PA State Archives Transfer Collection
1940 - 2017
Joseph F. Christ was born in 1927 with Klinefelter Syndrome and assigned male at birth. The seventh of eight children, Christ was placed into an orphanage during the Great Depression until the age 18. Two weeks later, Christ was drafted into the...
Collection: LGBT-068 - Anonymous
Topics: Klinefelter Syndrome
Organizations:
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-068 Anonymous Collection
1968 - 2015; Bulk Dates 1970 - 1980
Joseph W. Burns started to donate these materials in 2013 as the first contribution of historical documents to the LGBT Center of Central PA History Project. These materials reflect his involvement in, and document, LGBTQ+ activism in Central PA...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: PA Senate Bill 531, PA Senate Bill 83
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Citizens Concerned for a Better Community (CCBC), Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network (PALGSN), PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection, Appendix: Bibliography of books donated by Joseph W. Burns
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