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Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-Coll-3
Abstract Barbara Gittings (1932-2007) was an active member of the LGBT rights movement from the 1960s until her death. She worked as editor of The Ladder: A Lesbian Review. In the early 1970s, she was instrumental in lobbying the American Psychiatric Association to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness. Kay Tobin Lahusen (b. 1930) is a photojournalist, editor, author of The Gay Crusaders, and an active member of the gay and...
Dates: 1950 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1964 - 1975
Found in: John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center

"Box of vintage gay zines" and "Queer elders project" collection

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Identifier: Ms-Coll-69
Abstract

This collection began as a box of LGBT magazines, chapbooks, and other material that was left on the side of the road for trash collection in Burlington, Vermont in November of 2018 and subsequently went on to be the subject of a successful gallery exhibit and Instagram account. This collection is made up of three series: Series I includes the contents of the found box, Series II includes the preserved Instagram account, and Series III includes materials related to the exhibit.

Dates: 1969-1991, 2019
Found in: John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center

Kay Lahusen papers

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Identifier: MS-Coll-122
Abstract Katherine “Kay” Lahusen (1930–2021) was a photojournalist, author, activist, and longtime partner of Barbara Gittings (1961–2007), considered by many to be the mother of the LGBT movement in the United States. Lahusen’s photography and activism was integral to the organizing work of Gittings and fellow activist Frank Kameny. The Kay Lahusen papers are comprised primarily of content Lahusen retained, created, or consumed in the fourteen years following Barbara Gittings’ death in 2007 until...
Dates: 1961 - 2021
Found in: John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center

LGBT poetry, prose, music, and photography chapbooks

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Identifier: Ms-Coll-58
Abstract

This collection is made up of LGBT-related poetry, prose, music, and photography chapboooks produced from the 1960s through the current day, most from the 1970s and 1980s. The majority of the materials are in the poetic genre, but literature including short stories and plays are included, as well as books of lyrics and musical notation, and books of photography, especially those which include creative texts alongside the graphics material.

Dates: 1965 - 2017
Found in: John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center

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