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Gay activists

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Thane Walker Collection on The Prosperos

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2011-085
Abstract Course prospectus, flyers, pamphlets, newsletters, correspondence, essays, articles, class notes and other material from The Prosperos, co-founded by Thane Walker, 1966-1980. Founded in Florida in 1956, then based in Los Angeles in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Prosperos espoused (principally through the writings of co-founder Walker) a program of transformative spiritual education that combined mysticism, psychology, astrology, as well as an openness to homosexuality, bisexuality and...
Dates: 1966-1980

Whitman-Radclyffe Foundation Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2012-005
Abstract

Flyers, clippings, articles, correspondence, contracts, reports, press releases, handwritten notes, project proposals, financial documents, meeting minutes, and other material documenting activities of the Whitman-Radclyffe Foundation (WRF), 1972-1976. WRF was founded in San Francisco in 1972 as the "education, research, and charitable arm" of the California Committee for Sexual Law Reform (established in 1971).

Dates: 1972-1979

Doric Wilson Papers

 Collection — Folder 1-2
Identifier: Coll2012-006
Abstract

Play programs, playbills, flyers, correspondence, interview transcripts, clippings, publicity photographs, negatives, and other material, 1957-1984, documenting the career of playwright, director, and gay activist Doric Wilson. Wilson was a pioneer of the alternative theater movement in New York during the early 1960s, and in 1974, he co-founded The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS), the first professional gay theater company in New York City.

Dates: 1957-1984