Craig Rodwell papers 1940-1993 1962-1993

Brown, Howard Mayer

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt08jj (person)

Gunnison, Foster, 1925-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj05wh (person)

Foster Gunnison, Jr. was born in 1925 in Bronxville, New York. In 1944 he entered Haverford College and soon after transferred to Columbia University, graduating in 1949. Gunnison moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 1955 where he completed a Masters degree in psychology and in philosophy at Trinity College. Gunnision then moved to New York City and decided to join the Mattachine Society, the nation's oldest homophile organization, established in San Francisco in the early 1950s. In the mid 1960s, ...

Stonewall Inn (New York, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bs9k3n (corporateBody)

The Stonewall Inn is a gay bar and recreational tavern in Greenwich Village (New York City) and the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States....

Brown, Rita Mae, 1944-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk5978 (person)

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns, but tended to feud with their leaders over the marginalising of lesbians within the feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015. Brown was born in 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania to an unmarried teenage mother and her mother's ...

Milk, Harvey, 1930-1978

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nh5g11 (person)

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Although he was the most pro-LGBT politician in the United States at the time, politics and activism were not his early interests; he was neither open about his sexuality nor civically active until he was 40, after his experiences in the counterculture movement of the 1960s. In ...

Mattachine Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hq7t60 (corporateBody)

The Mattachine Society was founded in Los Angeles in 1950 by a small group of Gay men who had communist and/or radical ties. In 1951, Mattachine began sponsoring discussion groups among Gay men to raise awareness of their plight; these discussion groups spread across the county and new chapters were permanently established in Denver, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and other cities. The goal of Mattachine was to fight discrimination and to support and build a positive homosexual commu...

Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop (New York, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vn18cr (corporateBody)

Brown, Howard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w619602d (person)

Barker, Elver A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gx8v2r (person)

Leitsch, Dick

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t45c8p (person)

Society for Individual Rights (San Francisco, Calif.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz0bsc (corporateBody)

Rodwell, Craig, 1940-1993.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65475h6 (person)

Craig Rodwell (1940-1993) was an American gay rights activist. He was active in the Mattachine Society in New York City and in 1967 founded the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the first bookstore devoted to serious writing by gay authors. A participant in the Stonewall riots in 1969, Rodwell figured prominently in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s and 1980s. From the guide to the Craig Rodwell papers, 1940-1993, 1962-1993, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives ...

Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60h0gd5 (corporateBody)

Tobin, Kay

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh38vq (person)

Barbara Gittings (1932-2007), gay rights activist. Kay Tobin, gay rights activist. From the description of Kay Tobin and Barbara Gittings collection of printed materials on the Gay Liberation Movement, 1964-2007 (bulk 1965-1980). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702199204 ...

Gunnison, Foster

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sz99kc (person)

Gay People in Christian Science.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bk88nn (corporateBody)

Gittings, Barbara, 1932-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k07j28 (person)

Barbara Gittings (1932–2007), prominent American GLBT activist, founded the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, and was the first editor of DOB's The Ladder . Gittings was instrumental in forming the first gay caucus in the American Library Association (ALA). To honor her contributions, both the ALA and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) created annual awards bearing her name. From the guide to the Barbara Gittings papers, 1967-2006, (University of Minnesot...

North American Conference of Homophile Organizations.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6617wsr (corporateBody)

Rechy, John.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t4xzw (person)

Duberman, Martin B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qz2x55 (person)

Martin Bauml Duberman (1930- ), American historian and playwright, has taught history at Yale University, Princeton University and Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York. He wrote biographies of Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and Paul Robeson as well as historical studies, plays, essays, and reviews. His plays include In White America (1963) about the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and civil rights. Since 1972 he has been active in th...

Wicker, Randy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m34dx1 (person)

Daughters of Bilitis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zm0623 (corporateBody)

The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) were formed in 1955 in San Francisco by a group of women who wished to offer Lesbians an alternative social experience than the traditional Gay bar. The group also realized there was a need for education in both the general and Lesbian community about Gay rights and social inequality. In 1958, a chapter was established in New York City, followed by other chapters across the country. The goal of DOB was to help Lesbians accept themselves and lead a productive life. ...