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?.

Typescript poems and prose by Carl Morse, including an essay, "A Few Notes on How to Make a Fairy," illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, and the poems "Sissy Fairy," "Atlantis Bypass," Imitations of Immortality," "Send-Off," and "Digital." The essay is inscribed to Harry Hay and John Burnside by the author. All come from the library of Harry Hay.

The papers of the "performance poet" Chasen Gaver include personal papers as well as photographs, videotapes and audiotapes; also press materials and articles about him and his work, and announcements of his performances. Also, family photographs and correspondence, personal correspondence, a diary called "Fever Journal," notebooks meticulously charting Gaver's health, and a shadowbox puppet theater used for recitations of Gaver's poem "The Ugly Side of Pretty."

Correspondence, press releases, original layouts, and other working files from the publication of "OUTLINES: A Newsletter for Ithaca's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community," from the first issue, Dec. 1984 to #23, April/May 1989, and from 1993-1998. Plus, the Ithaca Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Task Force's publication of local businesses and organizations and mailings sent to members, 1991-2005 (incomplete). One issue of the Big Red Rag.

Personal journals, correspondence, and other personal papers.

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.

Slides and drawings of pornographic/erotic subjects, and a narrative by the artist discussing the nature of his pornographic aesthetic.

The collection documents Leach's determination and expression of his sexual identity, his life as a closeted gay, his coming out, and his emotional life as a gay American abroad and on Nantucket Island, as well as the details of his family life, friendships, and Leach family genealogy. The collection also includes correspondence from Robert Leach describing his donations, providing context for his collection at Cornell.

Typed manuscript of an unpublished gay novel by Wayne Hening, titled "The Carts of Mores and Copula."

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.