Guide to the Gay Media Task Force Records,
1975-1988

Collection Number: 7315

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
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Phil McCray
Date completed:
November 1991
EAD encoding:
Mireille Lee, May 2000
Date modified:
Anne Jones, May 2012

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Gay Media Task Force records, 1972-1988
Collection Number:
7315
Creator:
Gay Media Task Force.
Quantity:
19.6 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, press releases, film and television scripts, video tapes.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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.
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.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Deiter, Newton.

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


INFORMATION FOR USERS

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

SERIES LIST

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 37-40
Boxes 3-14
Series IV. Erotica Box 1, folders 41-50
Box 2
Series V. Videos Boxes 15-21

CONTAINER LIST

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