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Gay rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

85% Coalition Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-1
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the collection is made up of emails from the main 85% Coalition listserv and two specialized listservs, Equality at Carle and C-U At the Altar. The collection also includes photographs, songs used at protests, news clippings, correspondence, fliers, and legislative documents.

Dates: 1999 - 2005; Majority of material found within 2001 - 2005

Allen C. Wardell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-8
Scope and Contents

Collection documents Allen Wardell's personal and professional life through photographs, a piece of artwork, an address book, correspondence, manuscripts, a Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame award, Gay Chicago Award, and press clippings.

Dates: 1987 - 1995

Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: xxxx-04
Scope and Contents

The collection contains fliers, newsletters, brochures, publications, videotapes, and programs from Gittings’ funeral and memorial.

Dates: 1962 - 2008

Jack Rinella Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1996-03
Scope and Contents The collection contains photocopies of Volume I and Volume II of Mattachine Midwest’s notes (1965-1966), membership letters, and an introductory address by President Robert Sloane in July 1965, which were originally donated to Rinella by William B. Kelley.This collection is a series of transcribed oral histories conducted by Jack Rinella and Gregory Sprague as part of Rinella’s research on the history of leather. Rinella expanded the scope to the hisory of Gay Liberation and of...
Dates: 1994 - 1996

James Manahan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-06
Scope and Contents

The collection includes newspapers, magazines, articles, notes, files for organizations, bylaws, files related to the creation of Gerber/Hart, and some correspondence with prominent scholars like Jonathan Katz and Louie Crew.

Dates: 1966 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1982

The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Metropolitan Chicago Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1993-05
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of meeting agendas, bylaws, correspondence, administrative records, member lists, workshop packets, and minutes of various committees, including Media Affairs and Discrimination. Binder #1 retained to show original format of materials. Additional years were removed from binders and transferred to acid-free folders.

Dates: 1976 - 1981