Gay rights

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Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters. Some records donated by Yearly Meeting Office.

Abstract The Pennsylvania National Organization for Women (PA NOW) papers occupy fourteen boxes and contain the feminist organization’s records about their activities and meetings as well as materials about women’s issues such as reproductive rights; violence against women; gender, economic, and constitutional equality; and civil rights. The records date from 1970 to 2007 and include newspaper clippings, articles, meeting notes, office files, activism realia, and lobbying records, among other...

Abstract In 1972, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting appointed a Committee on Homosexuality under the Meeting for Social Concerns to work for the assurance of civil rights for homosexuals. In December of 1975, after the Meeting for Social Concerns was laid down and Yearly Meeting restructured, it was decided that there should be a subcommittee of the Family Relations Committee on homosexuality and a Committee for the Civil Rights of Homosexuals under the Testimonies/Concerns section of Yearly Meeting; the...

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Letter from artist George Segal to curator Thomas Garver, congratulating Garver on the installation of Segal's statue "Gay Liberation" in Madison, Wisconsin. The statue was created as a commemoration of the Stonewall Uprising.

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This collection contains various materials from playwright, performer, and Bible scholar Peterson Toscano. Documents include notes and scripts and publicity materials for his plays, personal materials like journals and photographs, and various magazines and newspapers featuring Toscano discussing his creative work, his experience with surviving ex-gay therapy and how his relationship with Christianity evolved as a result. This collection contains sexually explicit content.