Mass media and gays -- United States
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Liberation News Service collection
News packets, correspondence, and administrative records, 1969-1978, from the Liberation News Service (LNS), a press agency for alternative and radical media based in New York City, New York. Founded in 1967 as an anti-war news service, the LNS expanded its coverage to the gay and lesbian liberation movement in 1970, with the help of gay journalist Allen Young.
Tom Mertz collection on Queer Nation
Press material, flyers, clippings, correspondence, notes, protest signs, audiocassettes, and a VHS videocassette from Tom Mertz documenting the activities of the Los Angeles chapter of Queer Nation, 1990-2000. The collection documents the actions Queer Nation/LA organized and the media attention it received, including a zap on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1991.
Bruce Mirken papers
Minutes, contract agreements, corporate and government reports, correspondence, financial records, clippings, publicity material and other administrative records, 1987-1993, from writer and activist Bruce Mirken. Mirken worked for over 20 years in communications and activism in social justice, drug policy reform, LGBT- and AIDS-related issues, and materials in the collection document his participation in AIDS- and LGBT-related organizations, government agencies and committees.
Philadelphia Gay News Collection
Article typescripts, manuscripts, notes, correspondence and advertising packet from the Philadelphia Gay News, 1977-1988. The Philadelphia Gay News was a weekly newspaper established in 1976 to serve the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in the Philadelphia and Delaware Valley areas.