Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection 1962-2007

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Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection 1962-2007

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News clippings, journal articles, pamphlets,flyers, printed materials from activist organizations, a videocassette and aDVD, relating to pioneering lesbian activists Barbara Gittings and her partnerof 46 years, Kay Tobin Lahusen. Active from the 1960s, Gittings marched in thefirst gay rights demonstrations at the White House, Pentagon and IndependenceHall; she worked with Frank Kameny to persuade the American PsychiatricAssociation to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders; and sheheaded the Gay Task Force of the American Library Association from 1971 to1986. The collection contains articles by and about Gittings and Lahusen;subject files covering a variety of topics, such as religion, mental health andeducation; and printed material from several activist organizations, includingthe Gay Task Force of the ALA, the Homophile Action League, the MattachineSociety, the Gay Activist Alliance and the National Gay Task Force.

1.1 linear feet.; (3 archive cartons).

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ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.

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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, 1932-

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Biography Barbara Gittings was born on July 31, 1932, in Vienna, Austria, where her father was stationed as a United States diplomat. Returning to the U.S., the family eventually settled in Wilmington, Delaware. She entered Northwestern University and soon came out as a lesbian. She left Northwestern after her freshman year, settled in Philadelphia and supported herself with clerical jobs. In 1958 she began her long career as a ga...