Mayhew, Tim.

Tim Mayhew has been involved in gay activism in Seattle since the early 1970s. He was a member of the Seattle Gay Alliance in the early 1970s and served as the chair of its Education Committee, ca. 1972-1975. He was the SGA's lobbyist in Olympia, ca. 1973, and helped found Seattle's first Gay Community Center in 1971. Mayhew was also involved with the Gay Liberation Front. In the late 1970s he served as Seattle editor of the Northwest Gay Review, a gay newspaper based in Portland, and he was a member of the ACLU of Washington and served on its Sexual Minorities Committee, ca. 1977-1980. Mayhew lobbied in Olympia again, ca. 1981, on behalf of the Dorian Group, and in 1993 he helped found the Harvey Muggy Lesbian/Gay Democratic Organization. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Mayhew saw himself as a "gay community archivist." He collected materials related to gay activism in Seattle from groups he was involved in and from many other organizations. The Dorian Society, organized in 1967, was Seattle's first documented gay organization. The group sought to promote acceptance of gays in the larger society and to serve as a social organization for gays. Other gay rights organizations in Seattle included the Gay Community Center and the Seattle Gay Alliance.