Correspondence, clippings, flyers, legal documents, book notes, organizational prospectus, notes, legal expense records, mailing lists, invoices, personal advertising inquiries, periodicals, photographs, and other material from gay activist and publisher Richard L. Schlegel, 1959-1972. Schlegel was a gay civil rights activist who pursued a wrongful termination suit (circa 1959) against the Department of the Army to the Supreme Court. During the 1960s and early 1970s, he published two mail-order gay quarterly publications: PACE, a Playboy-style magazine for gay and bisexual men, and Gay Male Swinger, "a vehicle for our gay correspondence club") based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The collection has two emphases: Schlegel v. United States, Schlegel's wrongful termination suit; and correspondence related to Schlegel's PACE and Gay Male Swinger. Three folders contain domestic and international correspondence largely concerned with personal advertisements to Gay Male Swinger.