Virginia Apuzzo Papers 1956-2012

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Virginia Apuzzo Papers 1956-2012

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Catholic nun; Lesbian activist; AIDS activist; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force director. Correspondence, reports, news coverage, speeches and speech notes, financial records, and photographs. The Papers particularly well document the burgeoning AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the political response. The Papers also show well how the Gay and Lesbian Movement grew over time and gained wider acceptance as personified by this one woman's rise in relative political power from the State House in Albany to the White House in DC. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia SmithCollection if you would like one sent to you.]

15 boxes; (15 linear ft.)

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Clinton, Bill, 1946-

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Virginia (Ginny) Apuzzo (b.1941) was raised in the Bronx, graduated with a B.A. from SUNY New Paltz and an M.A. from Fordham University, and entered a convent at the age of 26. After leaving the convent, Apuzzo came out publicly as a lesbian, taught at Brooklyn College, and dove head first into movement politics. Working with the then-named National Gay Task Force, Apuzzo worked to have a gay and lesbian plank included in the 1976 Democratic Party platform. Subsequently, she became the Director ...

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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.)

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