Gay Media Task Force records, 1972-1988.
Collection Number: 7315

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Gay Media Task Force records, 1972-1988.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7315
Abstract:
Correspondence, press releases and other information of Newton Deiter, coordinator of the Task Force; film and television scripts on which the Task Force worked; 3/4" video tapes of network television programs and source material.
Creator:
Gay Media Task Force
Deiter, Newton.
Quanitities:
19.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The Gay Media Task Force was created by the National Gay Task Force in 1972 to serve as a resource organization for network television programming as it addressed gay issues. The collection includes correspondence, press releases and other information about Newton Deiter, coordinator of the Task Force; film and television scripts on which the Task Force worked; erotica; and 3/4" video tapes of network television programs and source material.
Series I. Correspondence

Box 1, folders 1-26
Series II. Newton Deiter Writings

Box 1, folders 27-36
Series III. Film and television scripts

Box 1, folders 37-40Boxes 3-14
Series IV. Erotica

Box 1, folders 41-50Box 2
Series V. Videos

Boxes 15-21

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Gay Media Task Force records, #7315. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Biographical / Historical

The Gay Media Task Force was created by the National Gay Task Force in 1972 to serve as a resource organization for network programming dealing with gay issues.
Conditions Governing Use

Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage. Audio visual material that has been digitized: V-5956.

SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Sex in mass media.
Sex on television.
Television scripts.
Gays.
Gay men.
Homosexuality.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
1972-1973 Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 2-9
1975 Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 10-18
1976 Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 19-23
1977 Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 24-25
1978 Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 26
1979-1987 Correspondence
Series II. Newton Deiter Writings
Box 1 Folder 27-36
Newton Deiter articles, typescripts and manuscripts, published mostly in Insight
Box 1 Folder 37-40
Transcript of 1977 NBC Documentary, "Gay"
Series III. Film and television scripts
Dynasty
Box 3 Folder 1
Pilot
Box 3 Folder 2
Third Season Bible
Box 3 Folder 3
Story Projections, 1985-1986 Season
Box 3 Folder 4
Fifth Season Bible
Box 3 Folder 5
Bible, 1986-1987 Season
Box 3 Folder 6-48
Episodes 1-35
Box 4 Folder 1-52
Episodes 36-68 (lacking episode 39)
Box 5 Folder 1-44
Episodes 68-92
Box 6 Folder 1-41
Episodes 93-120
Box 7 Folder 1-36
Episodes 121-148
Box 8 Folder 1-36
Episodes 149-177
Box 9 Folder 1-23
Episodes 178-195
Box 9 Folder 24
Delaney
Box 9 Folder 25
Police Story
Box 9 Folder 26
James Dean: Portrait of a Friend
Box 9 Folder 27
Cheers
Box 9 Folder 28
A Nice Girl Like You
Box 9 Folder 29
Bronk
Box 9 Folder 30
Jigsaw John
Box 9 Folder 31
Street of San Francisco
Box 10 Folder 1
The Glitter Palace
Box 10 Folder 2
Phyllis
Box 10 Folder 3
Boys and Girls Together
Box 10 Folder 4
Snip
Box 10 Folder 5
DA's Investigator
Box 10 Folder 6
Snip
Box 10 Folder 7
Boys and Girls Together
Box 10 Folder 8-9
Snip
Box 10 Folder 10
Operation Runaway - The Sexual Image
Box 10 Folder 11
Streets of San Francisco
Box 10 Folder 12
The Searcher
Box 10 Folder 13
Mulligan's Stew
Box 10 Folder 14
Alice
Box 10 Folder 15
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
Box 10 Folder 16
Maude
Box 10 Folder 17
Sanford Arms
Box 10 Folder 18
A Purely Legal Matter
Box 10 Folder 19
The Weekend Hookers
Box 10 Folder 20
Let Me In
Box 10 Folder 21
Snip
Box 10 Folder 22
Dallas
Box 10 Folder 23
Hotel
Box 10 Folder 24
Hart, Hart, and Harte
Box 10 Folder 25
Soap
Box 10 Folder 26
Hollywood Cop Scandal
Box 10 Folder 27-28
Boys and Girls Together
Box 10 Folder 29
The Boys in the Mailroom
Box 10 Folder 30
The Best Little Boy in the World
Box 10 Folder 31
Coming Out
Box 10 Folder 32
Consenting Adult
Box 10 Folder 33
Hotel
Box 10 Folder 34
Coming Out
Box 11 Folder 1
Male Model
Box 11 Folder 2-3
The Searcher
Box 11 Folder 4
Police Story
Box 11 Folder 5
The Searcher
Box 11 Folder 6
Boys and Girls Together
Box 11 Folder 7
The Weekenders
Box 11 Folder 8
Male Model
Box 11 Folder 9
Coming Out
Box 11 Folder 10
Alexander
Box 11 Folder 11
Westside Medical
Box 11 Folder 12
Coming Out
Box 11 Folder 13
Hotel
Box 11 Folder 14
One Cooks, The Other Doesn't
Box 11 Folder 15
Love, Sidney
Box 11 Folder 16
Diff'rent Strokes
Box 11 Folder 17
Trapper John, M.D.
Box 11 Folder 18
Gay
Box 11 Folder 19
Journey Home
Box 11 Folder 20
The Boys in the Mailroom
Box 11 Folder 21
Teacher, Teacher, I Declare
Box 11 Folder 22
The Glitter Dome
Box 11 Folder 23
The Searcher
Box 11 Folder 24
Snip
Box 11 Folder 25
Doctors Hospital
Box 11 Folder 26
Family
Box 11 Folder 27
Sirota's Court
Box 11 Folder 28
Gibbsville
Box 11 Folder 29
Hot L Baltimore
Box 11 Folder 30
Alexander
Box 11 Folder 31-32
Hotel
Box 11 Folder 33
Saturday Before Tomorrow
Box 11 Folder 34
A Cry of Pain
Box 11 Folder 35
Washington, D.C., The Power and the Glory
Box 12 Folder 1
Washington, D.C., The Power and the Glory
Box 12 Folder 2
Police Story
Box 12 Folder 3
Washington, D.C., The Power and the Glory
Box 12 Folder 4
Sirota's Court
Box 12 Folder 5
Alexander
Box 12 Folder 6
Qwark
Box 12 Folder 7
The Life and Times of Captain Barney Miller
Box 12 Folder 8
CPO Sharkey
Box 12 Folder 9
Seventh Avenue
Box 12 Folder 10
Lou Grant
Box 12 Folder 11
The Censors
Box 12 Folder 12
Ladies' Man
Box 12 Folder 13
It Just So Happens
Box 12 Folder 14
The Boys Next Door
Box 12 Folder 15
Shannon
Box 12 Folder 16
Double Trouble
Box 12 Folder 17
Shannon
Box 12 Folder 18
Sidney Shore
Box 12 Folder 19
Archie Bunker's Place
Box 12 Folder 20
Born Innocent
Box 12 Folder 21
Doctors Hospital
Box 12 Folder 22
The Bob Crane Show
Box 12 Folder 23
Boys and Girls Together
Box 12 Folder 24
Starsky and Hutch
Box 12 Folder 25
The Weekenders
Box 12 Folder 26
The Practice
Box 12 Folder 27
Five Women
Box 12 Folder 28
Hot L Baltimore
Box 12 Folder 29
The Bob Newhart Show
Box 12 Folder 30
Barney Miller
Box 12 Folder 31
The Nancy Walker Show
Box 12 Folder 32
Sergeant Matlovich Versus the U.S. Air Force
Box 12 Folder 33
Washington, D.C.
Box 12 Folder 34
Teacher, Teacher, I Declare
Box 12 Folder 35
Paper Dolls
Box 12 Folder 36
Washington, D.C.
Box 12 Folder 37
Police Woman
Box 12 Folder 38
Serpico
Box 12 Folder 39
Alexander
Box 13 Folder 1
Scruples
Box 13 Folder 2
The White Shadow
Box 13 Folder 3-4
Boys and Girls Together
Box 13 Folder 5
Family
Box 13 Folder 6
Valentino
Box 13 Folder 7
The Suicide's Wife
Box 13 Folder 8
Boys and Girls Together
Box 14 Folder 1
Washington, D.C.
Box 14 Folder 2
Just Friends
Box 14 Folder 3
Boys in the Mailroom
Box 14 Folder 4
Police Woman
Box 14 Folder 5
Alexander: Portrait of a Teenaged Throwout
Box 14 Folder 6
Terraces
Box 14 Folder 7
Medical Center
Box 14 Folder 8
Barney Miller
Box 14 Folder 9
Sirota's Court
Box 14 Folder 10
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Box 14 Folder 11
Marcus Welby, M.D. "The Outrage"
Series IV. Erotica
Box 1 Folder 41-50
Pornographic magazines and photographs
Box 2
Five scrapbooks of nude, erotic, and pornographic photographs and drawings
Series V. Videos
Box 15 V-5866
60 Minutes - Rolls Royce Car Report
1980
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5867
A Question of Love - Part 1
1978
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5868
A Question of Love - Part 2
1978
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5869
A Very Natural Thing - Part 1
1976
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5870
A Very Natural Thing - Part 2
1976
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5871
ABC News Nightline
1981
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5872
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn - Part 1
1977
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5873
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn - Part 2
1977
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5874
Alice - "Alice Gets a Pass", Phyllis - "Out of the Closet"
1976
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5875
All in the Family - "Archie the Hero", Bob Crane Show - "A Case of Misdiagnosis"
1975
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5876
An Overview of AIDS - CDC
1983
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5877
Archie Bunker's Place - "The Cook"
1979
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5878
Baretta - "The Sky is Falling"
1977
U-Matic
Box 15 V-5879
Barney Miller - "The Child Stealers"
1980
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5880
Barney Miller - "Inquisition"
1980
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5881
Barney Miller - "Movie Part Two"
1981
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5882
Barney Miller - "Quarantine Part 1", Barney Miller - "Quarantine Part 2"
1976
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5883
Boys for Sale or Fun and Games in Houston
1981
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5884
Bronk - "Deception"
1975
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5885
C.P.O Sharkey - "Sharkey's Secret Life", NYPD - Episode Unknown
1977
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5886
Carter Country - "Out of the Closet", Sanford Arms - "Phil's Assertion School"
1977
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5887
CBS Reports - "Gay Power, Gay Politics"
1980
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5888
Cheers - "The Boys in the Bar"
1983
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5889
Dallas - "Royal Marriage"
1979
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5890
Dawn! Part 1
1979
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5891
Dawn! Part 2
1979
U-Matic
Box 16 V-5892
Death Scream Part 1
1975
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Digitized, use DVD-719
Box 16 V-5893
Death Scream Part 2
1975
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Digitized, use DVD-719
Box 17 V-5894
Doctors' Hospital - "Watchman, Who Will Guard Thy Sleep?"
1975
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5895
Dynasty - "The Birthday Party"
1981
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5896
Dynasty - "The Separation"
1981
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5897
Family - "Rites of Friendship"
1976
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5898
Family - "We Love You, Miss Jessup"
1977
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5899
Gay - KNBC Documentary
1977
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5900
Gay - KNBC Special
1977
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Digitized, use DVD-1062
Box 17 V-5901
Gays: Private Feelings, Public Faces with Malcolm Boyd
19--
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5902
Gimme A Break - "The Chief's Gay Evening"
1982
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5903
Guest Spot - Episodes 33 and 34
1978
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Digitized, use DVD-1063; includes Newt Deiter interviewing John Birggs about proposition 6 in California.
Box 17 V-5904
Hot L Baltimore - "George and Gordon", All in the Family - "Judging Books by Covers"
1975, 1971
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5905
House Calls - "Gays of Our Lives"
1982
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5906
In the Glitter Palace - Part 1
1977
U-Matic
Box 17 V-5907
In the Glitter Palace - Part 2
1977
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5908
James Dean - Part 1
1976
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5909
James Dean - Part 2
1976
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5910
Kiss Me, Kill Me - Part 1
1976
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5911
Kiss Me, Kill Me - Part 2
1976
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5912
KNBC Special - "Is School Out for Gays?"
1978
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5913
Ladies' Man - "An Obtuse Triangle"
1980
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5914
Lou Grant - "Cop"
1979
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5915
M.A.S.H. - "George", Barney Miller - "Discovery"
1974, 1975
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5916
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman – Episode 127, Sirota's Court - "Court Fear"
1976
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5917
Maude - "Arthur's Worry", The Nancy Walker Show - "A Matter of Principle"
1976
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5918
Maude - "The Gay Bar", Chico and the Man - "The Dress"
1977
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5919
Medical Center - "Impasse"
1973
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Digitized, use DVD-719
Box 18 V-5920
Medical Center - "Undercurrent"
1970
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5921
Miscellaneous Clips - Fag Part 1
19--
U-Matic
Box 18 V-5922
Miscellaneous Clips - Fag Part 2
19--
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5923
Miscellaneous Clips
19--
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Contains M-M Pornography
Box 19 V-5924
Police Story - "The Ripper"
1974
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5925
Saturday Night Live - March 27 Episode
1982
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5926
Senior Trip - Part 1
1981
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5927
Senior Trip - Part 2
1981
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5928
Sergeant Matlovich vs. The U.S. Air Force Part 1
1978
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5929
Sergeant Matlovich vs. The U.S. Air Force Part 2
1978
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5930
Shannon - "Pilot"
1981
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5931
Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend - Part 1
1981
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5932
Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend - Part 2
1981
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5933
Snip - "David Makes His Move" and "Out of the Closet"
1976
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5934
Some of Your Best Friends
1971
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5935
Song of Myself
1976
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5936
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking (labeled as Speaking Frankly) - WQED
1976
U-Matic
Box 19 V-5937
Starsky and Hutch - "Death in a Different Place"
1977
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5938
Stockard Channing in Just Friends - "The Boy in the Band"
1979
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5939
That Certain Summer - Part 1
1972
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5940
That Certain Summer - Part 2
1972
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5941
The Associates - "The Censors"
1980
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5942
The Bob Newhart Show - "A Jackie Story"
1977
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5943
The Bob Newhart Show - "Some of my Best Friends are...", The Practice - "Helen's Beau"
1976, 1979
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5944
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors - "A Very Strange Triangle"
1972
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Digitized, use DVD-719
Box 20 V-5945
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors - Episode
19--
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5946
The Last Resort - "Girlfriends"
1977
U-Matic
Scope and Contents
Digitized, use DVD-719
Box 20 V-5947
The Naked Civil Servant - Part 1
1975
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5948
The Naked Civil Servant - Part 2
1975
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5949
The Runaways - "False Images"
1979
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5950
The Shadow Box - Part 1
1980
U-Matic
Box 20 V-5951
The Shadow Box - Part 2
1980
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5952
The Streets of San Francisco - "A Good Cop, But..."
1977
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5953
The Suicide's Wife - Part 1
1979
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5954
The Suicide's Wife - Part 2
1979
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5955
The Today Show - Gay Media Task Force
19--
Scope and Contents
Contents are actually a ~15 minute tape with short porn scene followed by some minutes of "A Clockwork Orange" and a sports segment from news program.
Box 21 V-5956
The Today Show - "Gays on TV"
19--
Box 21 V-5957
The Users - Parts 1 and 2
1978
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5958
The Users - Parts 3 and 4
1978
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5959
The War Widow Part 1
1976
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5960
The War Widow Part 2
1976
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5961
The White Shadow - "One of the Boys"
1979
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5962
Trapper John, M.D. - "Straight and Narrow"
1981
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5963
WKRP in Cincinnati - "Les on a Ledge"
1978
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5964
Word is Out Part 1
1977
U-Matic
Box 21 V-5965
Word is Out Part 2
1977
U-Matic
DVD-719
Copies of 5 U-matic tapes
Scope and Contents
Sitcom - Last Resort - Episode Girlfriends, October 5, 1979, :30 Drama - Medical Center – Episode Impasse, October 1, 1973, 1:00 TV Movie - Death Scream – March 16, 1977, 1:30 – In two parts, part two the tape colors are off. Drama - The Bold Ones: The New Doctors – Episode A Very Strange Triangle, Original airdate October 31, 1972, This broadcast from March 9, 1976, 1:00