Summary Information

Title: Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection,
Creator: Barbara Gittings
Inclusive dates: 1965-2007.
0.4 cubic feet
Publications, photographs.
Abstract::

News clippings featuring Gittings over her years of lesbian and gay rights activism, 1965-2007, including photocopies of photographs of Gittings in demonstrations in front of Independence Hall on July 4, 1966 and July 4, 1969 and in front of the White House in October 1965, a clipping about Gittings' 1969 visit to speak at Cornell University, and obituaries and information about her memorial service. Also, brochures, position statements, and flyers from gay rights events and organizations, including election materials from Franklin Kameny's congressional run in 1971, and 1982 news clippings about efforts to establish a gay scholarship and gay book fund at Cornell.

Abstract:

Also, DVD "Gay Pioneers" and video "Out of the Past" (a documentary about the gay rights movement)

Call number: 7645
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library