Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection, 1965-2007.

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Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection, 1965-2007.

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News clippings featuring Gittings over her years of lesbian and gay rights activism, 1965-2007, including photocopies of photographs of Gittings in demonstrations in front of Independence Hall on July 4, 1966 and July 4, 1969 and in front of the White House in October 1965, a clipping about Gittings' 1969 visit to speak at Cornell University, and obituaries and information about her memorial service. Also, brochures, position statements, and flyers from gay rights events and organizations, including election materials from Franklin Kameny's congressional run in 1971, and 1982 news clippings about efforts to establish a gay scholarship and gay book fund at Cornell. Also, DVD "Gay Pioneers" and video "Out of the Past" (a documentary about the gay rights movement)

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Gittings, Barbara, 1932-2007

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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...

Lahusen, Kay Tobin.

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