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Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - July [7], 1979
Number of Pages:
4
Date:
July [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 to end discriminatory practices and policies against all LGBTQ+ employees, clients, and program of state services. The proposed council was his instrument guaranteeing the implementation of his decree throughout the Executive Branch of state government.
Minutes from the July [7], 1979 meeting. Minutes include:
- Schedule for the 1979-80 Council Meetings
- Proclamation of Gay Pride Week by Governor Thornburgh
- Pride '79 Conference
- Alcoholism Update
- Report on Aging
- General Announcements
- Notes updates from smaller committees in the Council
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Origin:
Gift of Joseph W. Burns
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Location:
LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections