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Gay people -- Political activity

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Alice Kleberg Reynolds papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7606
Abstract

Professional and personal subject files pertaining chiefly to the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and its work in AIDS education, advocacy, queer politics, women's rights campaigns, and gay and lesbian social and political issues.

Dates: 1979-2004.

Brian R. McNaught papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7590
Abstract

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?.

Dates: circa 1976-2011.

Harry Langhorne papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7304
Abstract

The collection consists of the papers of Harry Langhorne, a Philadelphia area gay activist and executive officer of the Gay Activists Alliance of Philadelphia. Includes subject files relating to all aspects of the gay movement and of other liberal and radical social causes.

Dates: 1972-1977.

Larry Bush papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7316
Abstract

The collection consists of Bush's personal papers and collected news articles. Subjects include AIDS, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the National Gay Task Force, and the legislative and legal aspects of gay rights.

Dates: 1977-1984.

Lesbian and Gay Congressional Staff Association records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065253753]
Identifier: 7597
Scope and content

By-laws, working papers, letters mailed, a broadside, and other papers of the Association.

Dates: 1994-1995.

Mark Handel papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7598
Scope and content Diary, posters, a high school yearbook, and other material pertaining to Handel's involvement in the political and cultural expression of gay sexuality and coming out. Diary (1989-1991) includes writings on coming out to friends; also, notes about computer programming, photographs, and drawings. Posters created using the pseudonym "Auntie Ezra," a cultural guerilla group "out to annoy right-to-lifers and the 'radical wrong'" through campus postering. "Auntie Ezra's Queer Elements" was put...
Dates: 1989-1995.

National Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization (LLEGO), Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, and other ephemera

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065308680]
Identifier: 7610
Scope and content

Conference materials, programs, newsletters, official mailings, flyers, and other materials of a gay rights organization (LLEGO), and items related to the display of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt display in Washington DC (October 11-13 1996); includes one piece of anti-gay literature distributed there.



Dates: 1994-1996.

New York State Lesbian and Gay Lobby records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065092987]
Identifier: 7570
Scope and content

Subject file, working papers, and background material pertaining to the work of the Lobby.

Dates: 1981-1989.

Robert Garcia papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7574
Abstract The Robert Garcia papers include personal papers and files reflecting Garcia's personal life and involvement in lesbian and gay rights, reproductive rights, and AIDS activism. Garcia's papers also reflect his involvement in ACT UP-New York, the national organization Men of All Colors Together (formerly Black and White Men Together), and a video collective called House of Color; also, testimony regarding his arrest for civil disobedience at an ACT UP demonstration. A collection of...
Dates: 1988-1993.