Guide to the Harry Langhorne Papers,
1972-1977

Collection Number: 7304

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
Phil McCray
Date completed:
July 1991
EAD encoding:
Mireille Lee, June 2000

© 2000 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Harry Langhorne papers, 1972-1977
Collection Number:
7304
Creator:
Harry Langhorne
Quantity:
5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Subject files, correspondence, notes, drafts of essays, printed material.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
The collection consists of the papers of Harry Langhorne, a Philadelphia area gay activist and executive officer of the Gay Activists Alliance of Philadelphia. Includes subject files relating to all aspects of the gay movement and of other liberal and radical social causes.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Harry Langhorne was an executive administrator of the Gay Activists Alliance of Philadelphia (GAA) from 1972 to 1977.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The collection consists of the subject files kept by Langhorne while at the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), as well as his correspondence, notes, drafts of essays, and other accumulated printed material. The committees referred to in the files are those of GAA. Topics include gay legal rights and legislation, sodomy laws, gay politics including especially gay Marxism, bi- and transsexuality, gay media concerns, sex education, homophobia, special gay interest groups such as handicapped gays, and gay-church issues. The collection documents relations between CAA and the gay liberation movement and Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania, and national political governments, especially pertaining to their statues and practices relating to the gay movement. GAA communications with other regional and national gay organizations and many of their publications are included.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Langhorne, Harry.
Gay Activists Alliance (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Subjects:
Gay men.
Gays--Political action.
Sodomy.
Gay liberation movement.
Gays--Identity.
Sex instruction.
Homophobia.
Homosexuality--Laws and legislation.
Homosexuality.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Harry Langhorne papers, #7304. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

The arrangement of the files is alphabetical according to the original folder headings, with a small additional group of miscellaneous and unordered subject files following.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Subject Files Boxes 1-5
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Series I. Subject Files
Academy Screening Room
 Box 1 Folder 1
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
 Box 1 Folder 2
Action Alliance of Senior Citizens
 Box 1 Folder 3
Americans for Democratic Action
 Box 1 Folder 4
Advocate
Box 1 Folder 5
Affirmative Action
 Box 1 Folder 6
Alcoholism and Gays
 Box 1 Folder 7
Allentown
 Box 1 Folder 8
Amazons, Inc.
 Box 1 Folder 9
American Medical Association
 Box 1 Folder 10
Anti-Gay Bills
 Box 1 Folder 11-12
Aumiller
 Box 1 Folder 13
Aversion Therapy
 Box 1 Folder 14
Baltimore Gay Alliance
 Box 1 Folder 15
Bar Alvah
 Box 1 Folder 19
Bar Association
 Box 1 Folder 16
Bars
 Box 1 Folder 17
Berwick
 Box 1 Folder 18
Bibliographies
 Box 1 Folder 20
Bisexuality
 Box 1 Folder 21
Black Economic Development Conference (Greater Philadelphia)
 Box 1 Folder 22
Black Legislative Caucus (Pennsylvania)
 Box 1 Folder 23
Blackmail
 Box 1 Folder 24
Black Panthers
 Box 1 Folder 25
Blade
Box 1 Folder 26
Bread and Roses
 Box 1 Folder 27
Calendar
 Box 1 Folder 28
CALM (Custody Action for Lesbian Mothers)
 Box 1 Folder 29
Campaign 1976
 Box 1 Folder 30
Canada - National Gay Rights Coalition
 Box 1 Folder 31
Catholic Church
 Box 1 Folder 33
Community Alliance of Philadelphia
 Box 1 Folder 32
Council for Equal Job Opportunity
 Box 1 Folder 34
Chicago 1972
 Box 1 Folder 35
Child Abuse
 Box 1 Folder 36
Children
 Box 1 Folder 37
Churches
 Box 1 Folder 38
City Council
 Box 1 Folder 39
City Council Newsletter
 Box 1 Folder 40
Civil Rights - Endorsements
 Box 1 Folder 41
Civil Rights - Endorsement Targets
 Box 1 Folder 42
Clearinghouse
 Box 1 Folder 43
Coalition Against Police Abuses
 Box 1 Folder 44-45
Coalition - Philadelphia Gay
 Box 1 Folder 46
Columbus Gay Activist
 Box 1 Folder 47
Commission on Human Relations (Philadelphia)
 Box 1 Folder 48
Committee for a Gay Rights Bill
 Box 1 Folder 49
Common Cause
 Box 1 Folder 50
"Common Sense" Philadelphia Action Report
 Box 1 Folder 51
Community Advocate Unit
 Box 1 Folder 52
Concerned Citizens for Gay Rights
 Box 1 Folder 53
Consciousness Raising
 Box 1 Folder 54
Correspondence (GAA)
 Box 1 Folder 55
Council for Social Development
 Box 1 Folder 56
"The Crusader"
 Box 1 Folder 57
Delaware
 Box 1 Folder 58
Democrats (local)
 Box 1 Folder 59
Democrats (national)
 Box 1 Folder 60
Dignity
 Box 1 Folder 61
District Attorney
 Box 1 Folder 62
Dyketactics!
 Box 1 Folder 63
Edinboro
 Box 1 Folder 64
Education
 Box 1 Folder 65
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
 Box 1 Folder 66
Elections 1974
 Box 1 Folder 67
Elections 1976
 Box 1 Folder 68
Endorsements
 Box 1 Folder 69
Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
 Box 1 Folder 70
ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
 Box 1 Folder 71
Eromin Center
 Box 1 Folder 72
Events in Philadelphia
 Box 1 Folder 73
Farview
 Box 1 Folder 74
Fellowship Commission
 Box 1 Folder 75
Fire Safety
 Box 1 Folder 76
Floyd, Rev. Melvin
 Box 1 Folder 77
Forums, GAA
 Box 1 Folder 78
Free University Course
 Box 1 Folder 79
Full Employment
 Box 1 Folder 80
Fund-Raising
 Box 1 Folder 81
Gay Academic Union
 Box 2 Folder 1-2
Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Philadelphia
 Box 2 Folder 3
GAA - Papers: Minutes, Notes, Membership Lists
 Box 2 Folder 4
GAA - Duplicate (Legal Cases, Homosexuality)
 Box 2 Folder 5
GAA - Current
 Box 2 Folder 6
GAA - Press Releases and Media Coverage
 Box 2 Folder 7
GAA Constitutions
 Box 2 Folder 8
GAA - "The Gay Alternative"
 Box 2 Folder 9
GAA Alternative
 Box 2 Folder 10
"A Gay Manifesto"
Gay Capitalism
 Box 2 Folder 11
"The Gay Circle"
 Box 2 Folder 12
Gay Community Services Berks County
 Box 2 Folder 13
Gay Democratic Caucus
 Box 2 Folder 14
Gay Groups' Notices, Outside Philadelphia
 Box 2 Folder 15
"Gay Health Reports"
 Box 2 Folder 16
Gay Lobby Day
 Box 2 Folder 17
Gay Marxists
 Box 2 Folder 19-20
Includes "Gay Liberator," other newsletters, correspondence, and position papers
Gay Media Project
 Box 2 Folder 21-22
Gay Newsletters (Miscellaneous)
 Box 2 Folder 18
Includes "Chicago Gay Pride CGA Newsletter," "Challenge," "AC/DC Atlantic City," and others
Gay Nurses Alliance
 Box 2 Folder 24
Gays of the Northeast
 Box 2 Folder 23
"Gay People in the Labor Force"
 Box 2 Folder 25
"Gay People and Mental Health"
 Box 2 Folder 26
Gay People, Princeton, New Jersey
 Box 2 Folder 27
"Gay Post" (New York City)
 Box 2 Folder 31
Gay Pranksters
 Box 2 Folder 28
Gay Press Association
 Box 2 Folder 29
Gay Pride 1976
 Box 2 Folder 30
Gay Pride Week
 Box 2 Folder 32
Gay Public Health Workers
 Box 2 Folder 33
Gay Radio
 Box 2 Folder 34
Gay Raiders
 Box 2 Folder 35
Gay Rights Bills
 Box 2 Folder 36-38
Gay Rights National Lobby
 Box 2 Folder 39
Gay Rights Pamphlet
 Box 2 Folder 40
Gay Rights Platforms, Political Statements
 Box 2 Folder 41
Gay Social Services Alliance
 Box 2 Folder 42
Gay South Jersey
 Box 2 Folder 43
Gay Students at the University of Pennsylvania
 Box 2 Folder 44
Includes Allen Ginsberg Correspondence
Gay Students at the University of Pittsburgh
 Box 2 Folder 45
Gay Students at Temple University
 Box 2 Folder 46
Gay Switchboard
 Box 2 Folder 47
Gay Symposium 1975
 Box 2 Folder 48
Gay United Lancaster (Pennsylvania)
 Box 2 Folder 49
Gays in Washington, D.C.
 Box 2 Folder 50
Includes "Just Us - A Directory of the Washington Gay Community"
Gay and Women's Alliance for Responsible Media - "GWARM Monitor"
 Box 2 Folder 51
Gay Youth - "GY Gay Youth's Gay Journal"
 Box 2 Folder 52
"Gayzette"
 Box 2 Folder 53
"Gayellow Pages" (1976)
 Box 2 Folder 54
Government Printing Office
 Box 2 Folder 55
Gray, Bill
 Box 2 Folder 56
Grey Panthers
 Box 2 Folder 57
GM and Exec.
 Box 2 Folder 58
Typewritten and handwritten minutes and notes
H Miscellaneous
 Box 2 Folder 59
Statement by Harry Langhorne before the regional Democratic Platform Committee Hearing, 3 June 1972; also National Gay Community for McGovern
Homophile Action League
 Box 2 Folder 60
Harrisburg Conference 1975
 Box 2 Folder 61
Handicapped Gays, Committee for
 Box 2 Folder 62
Health and Safety, Committee on
 Box 2 Folder 63
Henri David
 Box 2 Folder 64
"HERA - A Philadelphia Feminist Publication"
 Box 2 Folder 65
Homophile Union of Boston
 Box 2 Folder 66
"Homosexual Counseling Journal"
 Box 2 Folder 67
HOPS
 Box 2 Folder 68
"Zap!" From the State College Gay Community
Horn, Stu
 Box 2 Folder 69
HOW Newsletters: "Here's HOW"
 Box 2 Folder 70
Housing Authority of Delaware Valley
 Box 2 Folder 71
Human Relations Commission, Pennsylvania
Box 2 Folder 72
International Women's Year (IWY)
 Box 2 Folder 73
Incorporation
 Box 2 Folder 74
Immigration and Naturalization
 Box 2 Folder 75
Integrity/Philadelphia (Gay Episcopalians and their Friends)
 Box 2 Folder 76
Jews
 Box 2 Folder 77
July 4th Coalition
 Box 2 Folder 78
Journal (Harry Langhorne)
 Box 2 Folder 79
Lambda Legal Defense Fund
 Box 3 Folder 1
La Salle College Students for Individual Rights
 Box 3 Folder 2
Lauritsen, John
Box 3 Folder 3
Includes article on "snuff" film, 1976
Lavender and Red Union
 Box 3 Folder 4
"Come Out Fighting," the Newspaper of the LRU
Liquor Control Board, Pennsylvania
Box 3 Folder 5
"Le-Hi-Ho News"Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization
 Box 3 Folder 6
League of Women Voters
 Box 3 Folder 7
Legal Matters
 Box 3 Folder 8-9
Legal Miscellaneous
 Box 3 Folder 10
Society for Individual Rights Pocket Lawyer; "If You Are Arrested"
Legislative Committee
 Box 3 Folder 11
Lesbian Mothers
 Box 3 Folder 12
Los Angeles Gay Community Center
 Box 3 Folder 13
"Marcus Welby, M.D."
 Box 3 Folder 14-15
George McGovern
 Box 3 Folder 16
Maps
 Box 3 Folder 17
Men Against Patriarchy
 Box 3 Folder 18
Men's Liberation
 Box 3 Folder 19
Merry-Go-Round
 Box 3 Folder 20
Methodists
 Box 3 Folder 26
Metropolitan Community Church
 Box 3 Folder 27
Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches - Washington
 Box 3 Folder 28
Miami
 Box 3 Folder 21
Millersville State College
 Box 3 Folder 22
Miscellaneous
 Box 3 Folder 23
Mr. Livingroom
 Box 3 Folder 24
Movies
 Box 3 Folder 25
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
 Box 3 Folder 29
National Coalition of Gay Activists
 Box 3 Folder 30
National Coalition of Gay Organizations
 Box 3 Folder 38
Democratic National Convention, Miami, 1972
National Gay Rights
 Box 3 Folder 31
National Gay Student Center
 Box 3 Folder 32
National Gay Task Force
 Box 3 Folder 33-35
National Lawyers Guild
 Box 3 Folder 36
National Organization for Women (NOW)
 Box 3 Folder 37
NEPGA (Northeastern Pennsylvania Gay Alliance)
 Box 3 Folder 39
"New American Movement"
 Box 3 Folder 40
New Democratic Coalition of Pennsylvania
 Box 3 Folder 41
New Democratic Party of Canada
 Box 3 Folder 42
Newspaper Clippings
 Box 3 Folder 43-46
Newspaper Editorials
 Box 3 Folder 47
One
 Box 3 Folder 48
Operation Fightback
 Box 3 Folder 49
Pennsylvania
 Box 3 Folder 50-51
Gay Rights Advisory Committee, Governors's Council for Sexual Minorities, and other legal matters
Pennsylvania Commission on Gay Rights
 Box 3 Folder 52
Pennsylvania Commission on Sexual Minorities
 Box 3 Folder 53-54
Pennsylvania Council for Sexual Minorities
 Box 3 Folder 55-59
P.M.C. (Philadelphians [Motorcycle Club?])"Scribe's Newsletter"
 Box 3 Folder 60
Pennsylvania State Education Association
 Box 3 Folder 61
Pennsylvanians for Women's Rights
 Box 3 Folder 62
People's Business
 Box 3 Folder 63
People's Fund
 Box 3 Folder 64-65
People's Party
 Box 3 Folder 66
Petition (Harrisburg)
 Box 3 Folder 67
Petition (Philadelphia)
 Box 3 Folder 68
Philadelphia
 Box 4 Folder 12
Philadelphia Civil Service Regulations
 Box 4 Folder 13
Philadelphia Gay Community Center
 Box 4 Folder 8-11
Philadelphia Gay Conference
 Box 4 Folder 14
"Philadelphia Gay News" (PGN) II
 Box 4 Folder 1
Langhorne draft manuscripts of articles; discussion of Walt Whitman
PGN December
 Box 4 Folder 2
Langhorne draft manuscripts
PGN August
 Box 4 Folder 3
PGN Index
 Box 4 Folder 4
PGN Advertising
 Box 4 Folder 5
PGN January 1977
 Box 4 Folder 6
PGN Interviews
 Box 4 Folder 7
"Philadelphia Magazine"
 Box 4 Folder 15
Philadelphia Party
 Box 4 Folder 16
Philadelphia Urban Coalition
 Box 4 Folder 17
"Pittsburgh Gay News"
 Box 4 Folder 18
Pittsburgh State Conference (Pennsylvania State Gay Convention)
 Box 4 Folder 19
Planned Parenthood
 Box 4 Folder 20
Police
 Box 4 Folder 21
Police and Corrections
 Box 4 Folder 22
Police Commission
 Box 4 Folder 23
Polls
 Box 4 Folder 24
Pornography
 Box 4 Folder 25
Presbytery
 Box 4 Folder 26
Press
 Box 4 Folder 27
Presstype
 Box 4 Folder 28
Prison
 Box 4 Folder 29
Privacy
 Box 4 Folder 30
Propaganda Committee
 Box 4 Folder 31
Psychiatry
 Box 4 Folder 32-33
Quakers
 Box 4 Folder 35-36
Questionnaire
 Box 4 Folder 34
Racism
 Box 4 Folder 37
"Radical Queen"
 Box 4 Folder 38
"Recon"
 Box 4 Folder 39
Religion
 Box 4 Folder 40-41
Research
 Box 4 Folder 42
Rights Legislation
 Box 4 Folder 43-44
Rinear, Chuck
 Box 4 Folder 45
Ripon Society
 Box 4 Folder 46
Rittenhouse Square
 Box 4 Folder 47
Rizzo (Citizens' Committee to Recall Rizzo)
 Box 4 Folder 48
Roommate File
 Box 4 Folder 49
Rural Caucus
 Box 4 Folder 50
Rutgers University Homophile League
 Box 4 Folder 51
S-1 (Federal)
 Box 4 Folder 55
S-M Committee
 Box 4 Folder 52
San Francisco Association for Mental Health
 Box 4 Folder 53
Schapp
 Box 4 Folder 65
Seattle
 Box 4 Folder 56
Segal, Mark
 Box 4 Folder 57
Senate Bill No. 83, 1977
 Box 4 Folder 54
"Sexual Law Reporter"
 Box 4 Folder 58
Sex Education
 Box 4 Folder 59-64
SIECUS (Sex Information and Education Council of the United States)
 Box 4 Folder 66
SIR (Society for Individual Rights - San Francisco)
 Box 4 Folder 67
Sodomy
 Box 5 Folder 1-4
"Solidarity Newsletter"
 Box 5 Folder 5
Songs
 Box 5 Folder 6
Speakers Bureau (Gay)
 Box 5 Folder 7-8
Social committee
 Box 5 Folder 9
Socialists Workers Party
 Box 5 Folder 10
State
 Box 5 Folder 11
State (Gay Task Force, Council for Sexual Minorities)
 Box 5 Folder 12
State Legislators
 Box 5 Folder 13
State - Gay Civil Rights Bill, 1977
 Box 5 Folder 14-15
State Party Platforms
 Box 5 Folder 16
Stationery
 Box 5 Folder 17
Stonewall - Seattle; Gay Community Services, Minnesota
 Box 5 Folder 18
Sunshine Law
 Box 5 Folder 19
Super Sunday - 1976
 Box 5 Folder 20
Susan Saxe Case
 Box 5 Folder 21
TLA Cinema
 Box 5 Folder 22
Television
 Box 5 Folder 23-25
Tax
 Box 5 Folder 26
Telephone
 Box 5 Folder 27
Time Magazine (Matlovich)
Box 5 Folder 28
Transsexuals
 Box 5 Folder 29
Transvestites, including "Journal of Male Feminism" v. 77, no. 2 and National Alliance for Heterosexual Male Feminism items.
Box 5 Folder 30
Treasurer
 Box 5 Folder 31
Philadelphia Tribune
Box 5 Folder 32
Twenty Questions
 Box 5 Folder 33
Universal Church of Jesus Christ
 Box 5 Folder 34
Unions
 Box 5 Folder 35-36
United States Civil Service Commission
 Box 5 Folder 37
"Vanguard Vanities", Vanguard Motor Club of Philadelphia, founded 1969
 Box 5 Folder 38
"Vector"
 Box 5 Folder 39
Venereal Disease
 Box 5 Folder 40-41
Villanova University
 Box 5 Folder 42
Voter Registration
 Box 5 Folder 43
White, Ralph
 Box 5 Folder 46
"Wicce"
 Box 5 Folder 47
Women's Action Alliance
 Box 5 Folder 48
Women's Committee
 Box 5 Folder 49
Women's Political Caucus
 Box 5 Folder 50-51
Women's Rights
 Box 5 Folder 52
Women's Switchboard
 Box 5 Folder 53
WPVI - Channel 6
 Box 5 Folder 44
WUHY Radio ("Rest of the News" Brochure)
 Box 5 Folder 45
Young Lords
 Box 5 Folder 54
Youth Against War and Fascism
 Box 5 Folder 55
Youth Services Commission
 Box 5 Folder 56
Youth Studies Center
 Box 5 Folder 57
Miscellaneous Non-alphabetized files
Miscellaneous Articles
 Box 5 Folder 58
Philadelphians for Gay Rights (PGR)
 Box 5 Folder 59
Bank Statements
 Box 5 Folder 60
Clippings
 Box 5 Folder 61
Harry Langhorne Writings
 Box 5 Folder 62
Notes, lists, drafts of letters and essays
Correspondence
 Box 5 Folder 63
Letters to GAA
GAA - Materials Prepared for Presentation to the People's Fund
 Box 5 Folder 64
Miscellaneous Printed Material
 Box 5 Folder 65-66
"The Lavender and Red Book"
 Box 5 Folder 67
"Sports and the Macho Male"
 Box 5 Folder 68
"Achilles Heel"
 Box 5 Folder 69
"Religious Roots of the Taboo on Homosexuality"
 Box 5 Folder 70
"Report of the Pennsylvania Council for Sexual Minorities"
 Box 5 Folder 71
"Gay Oppression and Liberation"
 Box 5 Folder 72
"Gays on Campus"
 Box 5 Folder 73
"Gay Left"
 Box 5 Folder 74
"Outcome"
 Box 5 Folder 75
"Greater Philadelphia Publicity Guide 1975"
 Box 5 Folder 76
"College English"
 Box 5 Folder 77
Pamphlets, Gay
 Box 5 Folder 78