Lee A. Newell II Papers

Content Description

Lee A. Newell II acted as Chairperson of Gay Horizons (an early precursor of today’s Center on Halsted) from 1976 to 1977 and led its financial revival and growth. He also documented local events, assembling what is now a Chicago History Museum collection of some 5,000 photographs, led the city’s first LGBT PAC, and was an officer in neighborhood groups. His papers contain board meeting minutes, bylaws, annual reports, fundraising files, correspondence, press releases, photographic negatives, photographs, videotapes, buttons, and matchbooks.

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Gift

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