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Gay and lesbian rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Lesbian and Gay Rights Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll2007-013
Abstract This collection comprises minutes, meeting agendas, financial records, correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, newsletters, publications, legal papers, subject files, notes, photographs, ephemera, and a videocassette relating to the on-going activities of the Lesbian & Gay Rights Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU-LGRC), in Los Angeles. The LGRC is the first ACLU chapter in the United States to address the civil rights of gay...
Dates: 1970 - 2004

American Civil Liberties Union Orange County records

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2014-096
Abstract

Correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, written testimony, a flyer, and a clipping, 1971-1972, from the Orange County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. The materials document the chapter's attempt to form a Rights of Sexuality Committee in response to increased police harassment of gays and lesbians by the Garden Grove and City of Orange Police Departments.

Dates: 1971 - 1972

B.W. Grant Barnes papers

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 3.
Identifier: Coll2013-036
Abstract Reports and administrative files from the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), subject and research files, and personal papers (bulk, 1970-2000) from Attorney B.W. Grant Barnes. The collection includes extensive subject files pertaining to Barnes' research in international human rights laws; records documenting his work in the Individual Rights Section of the LACBA; and his personal writings, correspondence and other material documenting his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian...
Dates: 1913 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000

Ann Bradley papers

 Collection — Item Acc2008.004*
Identifier: Coll2014-035
Abstract

Correspondence, awards, photographs, and clippings, 1977-2006, from lesbian activist Ann Bradley. Bradley is known for creating and producing the Lesbian Writers Series at A Different Light Books in Los Angeles. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence and clippings on gay and lesbian rights, same-sex marriage, a boycott of Colorado businesses, and Officer Mitchell Grobeson's discrimination suit against the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dates: 1977-2006

Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (New York) Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2011-027
Abstract

Correspondence, flyers, newsletters, articles, meeting minutes, organizational forms, legal documents, legislation drafts, city council member lists, meeting rosters, clippings and other material documenting the activities, 1977-1990, of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (New York). Between 1977 and 1986, the Coalition's primary focus was to secure passage by the New York City Council of legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Dates: 1977-1990; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1986

Donald A. Ferguson papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2014-014
Abstract

Board of directors materials, bylaws, administrative committee records, correspondence, conference material, financial records, event and program records, newsletter copy, and publicity material, 1979-1994, from gay activist Donald A. Ferguson, who served on the boards for the Triangle Gay and Lesbian Foster Parent Association (also known as Triangle Project) and the Whitman-Brooks Foundation.

Dates: 1974 - 1994

Gay Persons Alliance Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2011-036
Abstract

Correspondence, fact sheets, new releases, memoranda, and articles documenting activities of the Gay Persons Alliance (GPA), 1975-1976. Formed in Los Angeles in March of 1976, the GPA argued that the California Fair Employment Practices Commission should include sexual orientation among the forms of employment discrimination prohibited within its jurisdiction.

Dates: 1975-1976

Gay Rights National Lobby Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2011-053
Abstract Press releases, notes, memoranda, member and legislator lists, policy statements, administrative records, financial documents, annual reports, correspondence, articles, and clippings documenting activities of the Gay Rights National Lobby, 1976-1985. Conceived of in Chicago in 1975, the Gay Rights National Lobby (GRNL) was "registered in Washington, D.C., as a civil rights lobby dedicated to obtaining federal legislation which will guarantee equal protection under the law to all men and...
Dates: 1976-1985

Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1.; Series Series 2.
Identifier: Coll2008-069
Abstract News clippings, journal articles, pamphlets, flyers, printed materials from activist organizations, photographs, a videocassette and a DVD relating to pioneering lesbian activists Barbara Gittings and her partner of 46 years, Kay Tobin Lahusen. Active from the 1960s, Gittings marched in the first gay rights demonstrations at the White House, Pentagon and Independence Hall; she worked with Frank Kameny to persuade the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of...
Dates: 1962-2007

Janus Society records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2008-027
Abstract Meeting minutes, bylaws and constitution, correspondence, notes, printed ephemera and other records from the Janus Society of America (also known as Janus Society of Delaware Valley), a Philadelphia-based homophile organization founded in 1962. The Janus Society was an influential group of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals, which was considered more politically aggressive than other homophile groups of that era. The Janus Society was active in the years 1962 to 1969, and its regular activities...
Dates: 1961-1969