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Gay people -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Edward J Wormley and Edward Crouse papers

 Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 31924088369222]
Identifier: 7684
Abstract This collection documents the lives, careers, and personal relationships of Edward J Wormley, noted modernist furniture designer, and Edward Crouse, Wormley's longtime partner and a professor and theater director at the University of Georgia. The collection contains the personal records of the two men, as well as material on Wormley's design-related activities. These include records of his association with Dunbar Furniture Company; client files from his private firm; correspondence and...
Dates: 1831-1997,-1907-1997.

Gay celebration memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065461919]
Identifier: 7588
Scope and content Memorabilia from the Gay Pride March and associated events in San Francisco, June 1994; events in New York commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, including the March for Drag Visibility on June 24; the International Dyke March on June 25; the Act-Up sponsored alternative march of the Stonewall celebration. Also, ephemeral material, the Queer Action Figures zine; program for the 18th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Lavendar Pages Business...
Dates: 1994.

Gay Coloring Book drawings

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065456745]
Identifier: 7596
Scope and content

Original drawings for the "Gay Coloring Book," published in 1964 by the Guild Press, Washington D.C.; includes copy of the printed version.

Dates: 1964.

Gay travel brochures

 Collection
Identifier: 7612
Abstract

Brochures and maps describing vacation destinations for a gay clientele.

Dates: 1959, 1982-2003, 2010.

James Douglas Merritt papers

 Collection — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924113570679]
Identifier: 7744
Scope and content

Personal journals, correspondence, and other personal papers.

Dates: 1930-2002.

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 Socialist League printed miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 75 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065253761]
Identifier: 7601
Scope and content

Broadside, subscription forms, and classified advertisements of the National Socialist League ("For Race and Nation"); includes references to Gay Nazis, sado-masochistic sex, white racism, and leather.

Dates: [ca. 1974-1984]

Robert J. Leach papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7609
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1930-2002.

Rosa von Praunheim papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7600
Scope and content

Film reviews, biographical writings, publicity releases, clippings, and other papers concerning the filmmaker, and five videocassettes of his films (V-200, "It's Not the Homosexual"; V-201, "Survival in New York"; V-202, "City of Lost Souls"; V-203, "Horror Vacum"; V-204, "I Am My Own Woman").

Dates: 1976-1993.