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Coming Out
March 1977
Keystone is an educational and communication feature of Dignity/Central PA Inc. Noteworthy articles in this issue:
- "Treasurer's Report" (p. 2)
- "Workshop"...Coming Out! (p. 5)
- "Notes from the President" (p. 5) ...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Dignity/Central PA, Coming Out
Organizations: Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), Friend's Meeting House, Dignity/Central PA
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Keystone (Dignity/Central PA) - March 1977
April 1977
The Keystone newsletter was an educational and communication feature of Dignity/Central PA Inc. Noteworthy news in this issues:
- "From Your President: Don't Do This to Me!" (p. 1)
- "Reflections - Workshop on Assertiveness" (p...
Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA Education and Social Outreach Committee
View Item: Keystone (Dignity/Central PA) - April 1977
July 1978
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, Coming Out
Organizations: Lehigh Valley Citizens Concerned for a Better Community (CCBC)
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - June 1978
July/August 1978
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: Human Rights Ordinance, Coming Out
Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities
View Item: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) - July/August 1978
July/August 1982
Keystone is an educational and communication feature of Dignity/Central PA Inc. Noteworthy articles in this issue:
- "From the President" (p. 1)
- "Elections" (p. 1)
- "The Closet as Killer" (p. 5)...
January 30, 1993
Peg Welch's stance on coming out when fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in York, PA.
York Area LAMBDA, started in the 1990s and originally known as York Support Inc., was an educational, political, and social group for the LGBTQ+ community of...
Collection: LGBT-080 - Welch
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: York Area LAMBDA
View Item: Memo from Peg Welch about "Coming Out" - January 30, 1993
March 28, 2013
For the very first interview of the history project, Edmund Good and Thurman Grossnickle describe their coming out stories. Thurman is a retired Scientist Administrator and has spent many years in academia and in health professions, as well as in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Dignity/Central PA, Gay and Lesbian Switchboard of Harrisburg, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 042: Edmund ''Ed'' Good and Thurman Grossnickle, part 1, Transcription of LGBT Oral History 042: Edmund ''Ed'' Good and Thurman Grossnickle, part 2
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
September 4, 2013
Michelle Probulus, 43, describes her experience with realizing that she is a lesbian at age 40, while married to a man with whom she had two young sons. She discusses the complications of figuring out her sexuality and coming to the realization...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations:
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 095: Michelle Probulus
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
February 24, 2015
Mary Nancarrow grew up in a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the 1950s and 1960s with divorced parents and two siblings. After graduating from Shippensburg University, she became prominent in the women’s movement and the LGBT movement in...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Feminism, Coming Out
Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 084B: Mary Nancarrow
March 8, 2015
Maria Warren grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, in a religious family with both her blood-related and adopted siblings. Maria was very involved in her mother’s church, attending Sunday services, Bible study, and choir rehearsal, but realized that...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 123: Maria Warren
March 22, 2015
Lindsay Snowden was born in Pittsburgh on March 15, 1976. Lindsay worked a bunch of odd jobs and has had an entrepreneurial spirit since a young age. Lindsay joined the military when sirb was 17. Lindsay realized after moving to Harrisburg that...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: House of Gains
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 110: Lindsay Snowden
March 22, 2015
Delma Welch was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Cardiff, Maryland as a Catholic with her three brothers and one sister. Delma began going to NOW [National Organization for Women] meetings in 1975 after becoming interested in feminism from...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out, Feminism
Organizations:
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 126: Delma Welch
March 23, 2015
The interview performed on March 23, 2015 is with Oral History project volunteer, Michele Metcalf and long-time LGBT activist and self-identified gay man, Phil Wenger. Wenger was born and raised in Ethiopia in a large Mennonite missionary family...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, Lancaster AIDS Project
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 128: Philip ''Phil'' Wenger
March 26, 2015
Growing up in the conservative Lebanon County of central PA, Barbara Darkes attended grade school through the beginning of her pre-law college career without experiencing any attraction to women. It was at her summer job at the local YMCA during...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 019: Barbara Darkes
March 27, 2015
Walter Heiliger was born in 1944 and grew up in rural Carroll County, Maryland, the second of three children. Walter, who describes himself as “severely hearing-impaired,” encountered difficulties in school and in connecting...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Family Unit, Coming Out
Organizations: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 046: Walter Heiliger
March 29, 2015
Louie Marven moved to central Pennsylvania from his hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York to attend Messiah College in 2003 and has lived in the Harrisburg area ever since. The school’s conservative values and prohibition of “homosexual behavior...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA, Common Roads
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 076: Louie Marven
April 6, 2015
Eva O’Diam was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1953 to her mother, a school teacher, and her father, an engineer. Growing up in conservative, rural Ohio, Eva lost her father at the age of 12 and moved to Covington, Ohio where she graduated from high...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out, HIV/AIDs
Organizations: Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 088: Eva O'Diam
November 11, 2015
Cathy Nelson was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Staten Island, New York, at the age of two with her strict Italian-Swedish family. As a child, Cathy loved music and did well in school. She also participated in Catholic youth group...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: Central PA Womyn's Chorus
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November 18, 2016
Joanne Carroll was born in Alberta, Canada in 1940 as John Carroll. She spent the first 60 years of her life as a man, marrying twice and having two children. She worked a number of jobs throughout the country, primarily in the Air Force but also...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Transgender Experiences, Coming Out
Organizations: TransCentral PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 014: Joanne Carroll
October 4, 2017
Barry Loveland interviews Alex Reber, now 32, who relates fascinating stories of what it was like growing up as an only child of an Evangelical Christian family raised on a farm in Bethel, a rural town between Harrisburg and Allentown and...
Collection: LGBT Oral History
Topics: Coming Out
Organizations: LGBT Center of Central PA
View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 097: Alex Reber
