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Mass media and gays -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Liberation News Service collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2014-074
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1969-1978

Tom Mertz collection on Queer Nation

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2014-025
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1990 - 2000

Bruce Mirken papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2013-094
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1987-1993

Philadelphia Gay News Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll2011-066
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1977-1988; Majority of material found within 1977 - 1981