Tommi Avicolli Mecca subject files, slides, and audiocassettes 1971-1989

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Tommi Avicolli Mecca subject files, slides, and audiocassettes 1971-1989

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_HSP_JJWSC0025

Tommi Avicolli Mecca is an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights activist, writer, performer, and musician. The Tommi Avicolli Mecca subject files, slides, and audiocassettes, 1971-1989, are comprised of subject files on various LGBT topics, audiocassettes of lectures and radio shows, and slides used in a presentation on LGBT history in Philadelphia.

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John J. Wilcox Jr. GLBT Archives of Philadelphia

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Mecca, Tommi Avicolli

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"Tommi Avicolli Mecca is a longtime southern Italian radical queer activist who helped organize the first gay pride march in Philadelphia in 1972. He was co-founder of Radicalqueens and helped produce its magazine, and a member of Gay Liberation Front/Temple until its demise in 1974. He served as president of Gay Activists Alliance (1975), Associate Editor of New Gay Life magazine (1976-9), and reporter/editor for the Philadelphia Gay News (1981-91). He founded the Philadelphia Gay ...