Bruce Voeller papers, 1956-1990.

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Bruce Voeller papers, 1956-1990.

Subject files, clippings, leaflets, flyers, broadsides, newsletters, periodicals, and the perfunctory mailings of several gay and lesbian organizations referring to sexuality in general and to homosexuality and the gay liberation movement in particular; includes subject files on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Also a typescript of a prose fiction by Voeller, "Murder at McGurk." Also, files pertaining to the Responsive Gay Collective, the Gay Media Alliance, demonstrations in New York City, the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, the 1979 Gay Pride Celebration in New York City, the Lesbian and Gay Neighbors of Lower Manhattan, and the Chelsea Gay Association. Also, photographs of Voeller with other gay activists and sexuality researchers including Evelyn Hooker, staff of the National Gay Task Force, David McWhirter, Andrew Mattison, and Jean O'Leary; Voeller's research files on condoms and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases; Voeller's articles on topics of botany, sexually transmitted diseases, and gay fathers and gay rights; and Voeller's files from the gay rights movement and his work with the Mariposa Foundation, 1973-1990. Files on botany include a small collection of dried plant specimens.

44.9 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6780115

Cornell University Library

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Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee

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The Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee was the original organizer, starting in 1970, of the New York Gay Pride March and Rally. At first a committee of representatives from various organizations, they later became fully independent. They continued to be the organizers until replaced by Heritage of Pride in 1984. From the description of Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee records, 1970-1979, 1973-1974 (bulk). (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: ...

Voeller, Bruce R.

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Activist. From the description of Reminiscences of Bruce Voeller : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574628 A biologist, researcher, and founder of the Mariposa Education and Research Foundation, Voeller died from AIDS-related complications on February 13, 1994 at his home in Topanga, Calif. Voeller was perhaps best known for coining the acronym AIDS for "acquired immune deficiency syndrome," a term he used...

Responsive Gay Collective

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Lesbian and Gay Neighbors of Lower Manhattan

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Gay Media Alliance

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National Gay Task Force

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Chelsea Gay Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Mariposa Foundation

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