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Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (New York, N.Y.) Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-023
Abstract
Clippings, news releases, flyers, newsletters, event calenders, articles, correspondence, photographs, negatives, organizational lists, meeting minutes, reports, and other material documenting the activity of the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (CSLDC), 1970-1985. The Committee organized the first gay pride events in New York in 1970 to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Many photographs of the pride parade may be found in folders dated 1971-1973.
Dates:
1970-1987; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1978
Morris Kight papers and photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2010-008
Abstract
The collection, 1920-2003, consists of photographs, correspondence, clippings, annotated materials, and organizational materials primarily documenting Morris Kight's role as a gay activist in Los Angeles. He was born November 19, 1919 in Procter, Comanche County, Texas, married in 1950 in New Mexico, left his wife in 1955, and relocated to Los Angeles in 1958. Kight dedicated his life to a number of progressive causes including improving race relations, the anti-war movement, and the gay...
Dates:
circa 1920-2003; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2000