The Brian R. McNaught collection documents McNaught's career as a sexuality activist, a church activist, writer, and sensitivity trainer. Topics include the controversy of gays in the Catholic Church, AIDS training and awareness, homophobia in the workplace, and gay rights. McNaught's works, books and videos include A Disturbed Peace, On Being Gay, Gay Issues in the Workplace, Growing Up Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia in the Workplace, and Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?.

Records of the Sexuality and AIDS educator (1987-1990) and Coordinator of Cornell AIDS Action (1990-1992), Sharon J. Dittman. Includes records of the CU AIDS Advisory Committee (1991-1992); training, workshop, and resource materials from Cornell AIDS Action and SAFER (Students for AIDS Facts Education and Responsibility); clippings on sexuality, religion, and other topics; also, educational videos on AIDS and sexuality.

Files of graduate student member of the Cornell AIDS Advisory Committee, including newspapers, memos, meeting minutes, policies.

Resource package for a 1989 teleconference on AIDS in the college community and flyers, handouts, and reprints relating to HIV infection and AIDS, distributed by the Cornell AIDS Program at a workshop in Olin Library in 1992.

Three scrapbooks from the "AIDS and Society" class. Also, a bed sheet "banner" with comments about AIDS by students who took the class the first time it was offered.

The Goldstaub family papers relate to the effect on the family of Sylvia and Bernie Goldstaub when their son Mark came out to them as a gay man in 1977 and later when he became HIV-positive. The collection includes an audiotape of "Venetian Echoes" composed by Paul Goldstaub in memory of Mark, as well as the score and program notes. Also materials relating to Sylvia's book Unconditional Love: Mom! Dad! Love Me Please!

Foster's personal files, including correspondence, sexual audiocassettes, and records pertaining to Foster's business enterprise and various gay rights organizations. Other records concern public health issues, most notably AIDS.

The Robert Roth papers include correspondence, periodicals, publications, subject files, an AIDS file, and an international file pertaining chiefly to the international gay rights movement of the 1970s through the 1980s; also, pornography and erotica catalogs and material, and legal files pertaining to Roth's work as an attorney in landlord-tenant cases.

The collection includes correspondence, clippings, drafts of articles, printed matter, brochures, resumes, obituaries, and memorial flyers. Topics include the Democratic party, gay politics and journalism, bureaucratic correspondence concerning the Department of Commerce, safe sex in AIDS prevention and the legal aspects of homosexuality.

Materials collected by Tracy Kronzak while a student at Cornell University. Includes material on gay life and AIDS in Russia, materials from the 1996 display of the AIDS Quilt in Washington, D.C., materials from gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender organizations at Cornell and in San Francisco.