National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2010.

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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.). National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2010.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2010.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/73965586

Correspondence, financial and administrative records, field and subject files, press clippings, photographs, and miscellany that, taken together, provide a broad overview of the American movement for lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual rights starting in 1973. Files from Executive Directors Bruce Voeller, Jeff Levi, Lucia Valeska, C. F. Brydon, Virginia Appuzo, Urvashi Vaid, Melinda Paras and Kerry Lobel; correspondence with Virginia Appuzo; and correspondence, phone logs, financial reports, and summaries of staff work for the Executive Board. Also, support documentation for a formal presentation to the United States Civil Rights Commission on discrimination against lesbians and gay men. Subject files pertaining to legal questions, family issues, the media, anti-gay discrimination, violence against gay men and lesbians, and other topics. Key projects and subjects include the California and Dade County, Florida civil rights battles of the late 1970s, efforts to defeat anti-gay referendums in Oregon and Colorado in 1992, the Anti-Violence Project directed by Kevin Thomas Berrill from the project's beginnings in 1982 until 1994, the campus project, and the AIDS epidemic. An entire subseries of subject files contains materials from more than one hundred regional lesbian and gay organizations across the United States. Also, videotapes of eleven workshops on sodomy legislation organized by Sue Hyde, director of the NGLTF Privacy Project, which include several presentations by the ACLU's Nan Hunter and Arthur C. Warner (ca. late 1980s). Also, programs and planning documents for NGLTF's Creating Change Conferences, starting with its first in 1988, and including files, 1997-2995, from the conference director Sue Hyde. Current files go through 2005. Also includes a series of photographs of staff members and persons involved with projects and committees of the Task Force and various Task Force events and participation in marches and rallies. 175 printed items concerning AIDS, the legislation, its prevention, treatment and all social aspects of the disease, both in the United States and the world. Covering the period from 1981 to 2000. Material received after and not included in the microfilming project include 66 boxes transferred when the office moved in September 2002. Most are additions to existing files: budget/finance, publicity and press releases, Anti-Violence Project, Campus Project, Field files, Fight the Right Project, Lesbian Health Information Project, Media files, and additional videos. In addition, there are files on the Out and Equal Workplace Conference, the President Clinton transition and political parties and elections, and public information files. In addition, all 2,645 of the anonymous surveys returned for NGLTF's nationwide Black Pride Survey in 2000. This represented the first attempt to collect such a wide range of data on Black people in the U.S. who have same-sex sexual relationships, whether they identify as bisexual, lesbian, gay, or transgender or not. It resulted in the 2002 publication "Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud." Also, programs and planning documents for NGLTF's Creating Change Conferences, starting with its first in 1988. Current files go through 1997. And files from the Shower of Stoles Project and Witness Our Welcome (WOW), 1997-2006, projects that relate to LGBT people and religion. 298 negatives of the Primary Source Microfilm set; 106 positives and 106 negatives of materials in the collection at the time but not included in the PSM product, mostly clippings.

262.1 cubic feet including audiotapes, videotapes and microfilms.

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