Lesbian Health Resource Center records, 1987-2005.

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Lesbian Health Resource Center records, 1987-2005.

Collection includes administrative materials, grant and funding applications, volunteer orientation agendas, and a resource library maintained by the LHRC during the 1990s. Topics include mental and physical health for lesbians, in particular HIV/AIDS prevention, breast cancer prevention and screenings, and safe sex practices. Also includes materials about the LHRC's plans for a Lesbian Health Clinic in North Carolina, its ongoing relationships with other community organizations, and workshop materials on feminism, health, and leadership. Membership and participation lists are CLOSED until 2030. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

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Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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Lesbian Health Resource Center.

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The LHRC was a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to provide educational workshops and resource materials on all health issues for women who partner with women. It was the successor organization to the North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project, whose records the Sallie Bingham Center also holds. The NCLGHP was founded in 1982 to combat homophobia in existing health care institutions, and to provide gay men and lesbians the means to assume control over their own health care. F...

North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project

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The NCLGHP was founded in Durham, NC in 1982 to challenge homophobia in existing health care institutions, to provide information and support to individuals, and to coordinate grassroots activism around gay and lesbian health issues with other area organizations. From the description of Records, 1982-1996 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 37687195 ...