Abstract News clippings featuring Gittings over her years of lesbian and gay rights activism, 1965-2007, including photocopies of photographs of Gittings in demonstrations in front of Independence Hall on July 4, 1966 and July 4, 1969 and in front of the White House in October 1965, a clipping about Gittings' 1969 visit to speak at Cornell University, and obituaries and information about her memorial service. Also, brochures, position statements, and flyers from gay rights events and organizations,...

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Program, broadsides, coupons, and other ephemera handed out at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in Washington, DC. Also, a list of chants heard and t-shirts seen.

Scope and content Ephemera collected by Coyote (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), a prostitutes' rights group. Includes items of San Francisco's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; a safe sex pamphlet; a Shere Hite questionnaire on male sexuality; catalogs and correspondence pertaining to models of human genitalia; sex tourism advertisments; sexual merchandise catalogs; sex education newsletter for teens; and other printed material, newsletters, testimony, and news releases on matters pertaining to sex and...

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Buttons from Christine Jenkins and Dorothy Jean Searing, of Lockport, New York. Many of the buttons express support for reproductive choice. Other buttons express support for gay and lesbian rights, support for the NAMES Project, and opposition to Amendment 2 in Colorado.

Abstract Project files, correspondence, financial and administrative records, subject files, press clippings, photographs, and miscellany that, taken together, provide a broad overview of the American movement for lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual rights starting in 1980. HRC(F)'s lobbying, voter mobilization efforts, and grassroots organizing throughout the United States are well documented, as are its education and outreach efforts and the work of its various units that have served as think...

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Michael Shively's personal papers, including files from his work as Associate Director of the Center for Homosexual, Education, Evaluation, and Research (CHEER) at San Francisco State University, 1975-1980; his work for Liberation Publications Inc., which published the ADVOCATE, 1980-90; and his work at Damron Publishing since 1990.

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Printed announcements, book lists and order forms, appeals for financial contributions, short book reviews ("Book Notes"), course lists, and other ephemera sent to members by ONE or the ONE Institute. Collection includes a sample issue of the newsletter ONE Confidential (January 1959), and a program for a reading presented by the ONE Institute's Drama Group (October 6, 1963), as well as a course catalog from the ONE Institute for 1975-1976.

Abstract The records of QEJ consist of key documentation of its founding goals and guiding principles, its sources of funding, the involvement of its staff, executive directors, and Board of Directors, its publicity and outreach efforts, and its major projects including the establishment and operation of a shelter for queer people facing homelessness. Together, these files give a detailed look at the ideas, actions, challenges, and successes of this innovative organization devoted to racial,...

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The collection contains materials relating to sexual politics and the culture of groups defined by sexuality. Includes materials collected on the campus of Cornell University and from a wide range of U.S. and international cities.

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence leaflet which explains the group's purpose and functions, and undated letter to Jack from Fabian (no last names) which describes the group's inner politics and activities.