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2000-2009
circa 2000-2005
This collection contains stationary paper and envelopes for two funds and one event with which The Foundation for Enhancing Communities(TFEC) was involved. TFEC is a community foundation that serves the greater Harrisburg, PA area; Dillsburg, PA...
Collection: LGBT-026 - Foundation for Enhancing Communities
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Organizations: Foundation for Enhancing Communities
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LGBT History Project: LGBT-026 Foundation for Enhancing Communities Collection
1998-2008
This collection contains newsletters published between 1998 and 2004 by the Lower Susquehanna Valley Chapter of the Renaissance Education Association, Inc., a non-profit transgender support organization. These materials also include programs from...
Collection: LGBT-039 - Davidson
Topics:
Organizations: Renaissance Education Association, Inc.
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-039 Ellen Davidson Collection
circa 2000
Melinda Eash is a child psychologist and LBGTQ+ rights ally. After encountering a gay patient in her psychologist practice, Eash began teaching herself about LGBTQ+ youth. She contacted and began attending the local LGBTQ+ youth group, and became...
Collection: LGBT-040 - Eash
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Organizations: Bi, Gay, Lesbian Youth Association of Harrisburg (Bi-GLYAH), Common Roads
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-040 Melinda Eash Collection
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
Topics:
Organizations: Renaissance Education Association, Inc.
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-059 Renaissance of Southern Eastern PA Collection
2000-2014
Shaashawn Dial is as a poet, radio broadcaster, educator, author, and businesswoman. Kown as Shaashawn “The Voyce” Dial, and she released her debut spoken word album, Voycemail, after that nickname. Dial became the program director of 1400 THE...
Collection: LGBT-025 - Dial
Topics:
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, Central PA Vipers
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-025 Shaashawn Dial Collection
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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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View Item: History of the Lavender Letter - undated
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This collection holds two rainbow chains donated by an anonymous donor.
Collection: LGBT-035 Anonymous Collection
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-035 Collection
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Altland’s Ranch was the first official LGBTQ+ bar in the York area, and was the longest running LGBTQ+ bar in the county. It was known for hosting drag balls, discos, and particularly Halloween parties. Altland’s Ranch closed in...
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Altland’s Ranch was the first official LGBTQ+ bar in the York area, and was the longest running LGBTQ+ bar in the county. It was known for hosting drag balls, discos, and particularly Halloween parties. Altland’s Ranch closed in...
Collection: LGBT-084 - Altland's Ranch
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View Item: Altland's Ranch Ticket - undated
undated
Altland’s Ranch was the first official LGBTQ+ bar in the York area, and was the longest running LGBTQ+ bar in the county. It was known for hosting drag balls, discos, and particularly Halloween parties. Altland’s Ranch closed in...
Collection: LGBT-084 - Altland's Ranch
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View Item: Altland's Ranch Welcome Sign - undated
1987 - 2007
Marths ''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 led her to teaching. She moved with her family to Harrisburg in 1980,...
Collection: LGBT-054 - Tornblom
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Organizations: South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN), AIDS Community Alliance
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-054 Martha ''Marty'' Tornblom Collection
1989 - 2013
Peg (Stoppard) Welch was born in December 1951 near Chester County, Pennsylvania. Peg was a young mother of two and worked at various jobs until joining Parents Without Partners where she met her second husband, Phil. With his help, Peg was able...
Collection: LGBT-080 - Welch
Topics: Human Relations Ordinance
Organizations: York Area LAMBDA, The Names Project
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-080 Peg & Delma Welch Collection
1985 - 2016
Opened in 1966 in the small town of Spring Grove, PA, Altland’s Ranch was the first official LGBTQ+ bar in the York area, and was the longest running LGBTQ+ bar in the county. Altland’s Ranch was abspace for the LGBTQ+ community to make their own...
Collection: LGBT-084 - Altland's Ranch
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-084 Altland's Ranch Collection
1991 - 2001
Patricia “Pat” Saunders grew up in the suburbs of Boston, where she became a hairdresser. After Saunders married, she and her family moved to Lancaster, PA, but later she moved back to Boston until moving to New York City for her hairdressing...
Collection: LGBT-062 - Saunders
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: The Betty Finney House, Lancaster AIDS Project, American Red Cross of Lancaster County, American Red Cross of the Susquehanna Valley
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-062 Patricia ''Pat'' Saunders 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...
circa 2008 & 2010
Marlene Kanuck was born in 1949 in Hazleton, PA. Kanuck was a founder of the LGBT Center of Central PA, served as Vice President of the Central Pennsylvania Womyn’s Chorus, and was involved in a Harrisburg-area lesbian group called the...
Collection: LGBT-050 - Kanuck
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Organizations: Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-050 Marlene Kanuck 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
1994, circa 2004
Deb Fulham-Winston served as the director of development for South Central AIDS Assistance Network (SCAAN) from January 1992 until June 1995. This collection contains materials from SCAAN promoting HIV/AIDS awareness.
Collection: LGBT-055 - Fulham-Winston
Topics: HIV/AIDs
Organizations: South Central Aids Assistance Network (SCAAN)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-055 Deb Fulham-Winston Collection
1997 - 2012
The Central Pennsylvania Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CPGLCC) was established in 2007. It grew out of The Business Association of Gays and Lesbians (BAGAL), which was established in the 1990s by Dan Miller. Miller wanted to create an...
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
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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
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Organizations: Pink Triangle Coalition (PTC)
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-002 Lancaster, PA Area Activism Collection
1995 - 2005
This collection contains material related to the establishment of the LGBT Center of Central PA and the activities of the AIDS Community Alliance. It also includes a 1995-1996 Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg directory, a flyer for the...
Collection: LGBT-006 - Anonymous
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Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, AIDS Community Alliance
View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-006 Anonymous 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
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View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-068 Anonymous Collection
undated
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
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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