Guide to the Michael Scherker Research Files,
1989.

Collection Number: 7568

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
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Date completed:
May 31, 2011
EAD encoding:
Andrea Hektor, Peter Martinez, and Christine Bonilha

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Michael Scherker research files, 1989.
Collection Number:
7568
Creator:
Michael. Scherker
Quantity:
.7 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Files pertaining to research on the 1969 Stonewall Riot.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Files pertaining to research on the 1969 Stonewall Riot, in which the New York City Police Department and the gay community on Christopher Street came into violent conflict; includes Federal Bureau of Investigation files on the Gay Liberation Front and the Mattachine Society of New York acquired under the New York State Freedom of Information law; also correspondence with NYPD and FBI concerning the release of the papers. Also, correspondence to gay press re publicity for his project, single issues of papers mentioning it; and anonymous Christian literature addressed to Scherker and responses to the Stonewall project.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Scherker, Michael.
Gay Liberation front.
Mattachine Society of New York.

Subjects:
Gay liberation movement.
Gays.
Riots.
Stonewall Riot, New York, N. Y., 1969.
Sex discrimination.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Michael Scherker research files, #7568. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting Program: Human Sexuality Collection.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Link to a partial finding aid containing the list of informants for the Stonewall Oral History Project.
1956-1984
Christopher Street Liberation Day Movement
 Box 1 Folder 1
1958-1984
Wolfenden Committee and Homosexuality as a Criminal Offense
 Box 1 Folder 2
1959-1964
Mattachine Review and Newsletter-1 (Dec 59- Feb 64)
 Box 1 Folder 3
1959-1966
Arrested for Being Gay
 Box 1 Folder 4
1959-1984
Mattachine Review and Newsletter-2 (June 59- March 84)
 Box 1 Folder 5
1959-1985
Mattachine Review and Newsletter-3 (June 59- May 85)
 Box 1 Folder 6
1960
Mattachine Review-1 (April- July)
 Box 1 Folder 7
1960
Mattachine Review-2 (August- Sept)
 Box 1 Folder 8
1961-1984
Mattachine Review and Image (March 61- June 84)
 Box 1 Folder 9
1963-64
Mattachine Newsletter (Jan 63- Dec 64)
 Box 1 Folder 10
1969-1985
Mattachine Society and Review
 Box 1 Folder 11
1969-1989
Homosexual Information Center- William Edward Glover
 Box 1 Folder 12
1969-1988
Center for Constitutional Rights- 1
 Box 2 Folder 1
1969-1988
FOI- NYPD
 Box 2 Folder 2
1971-1989
Contact Sheets
 Box 2 Folder 3
1979-1989
Contact Sheets
 Box 2 Folder 4
1981-1988
Center for Constitutional Rights- 2
 Box 2 Folder 5
1982
Kevin B.
 Box 2 Folder 6
1983-1989
Notes
 Box 2 Folder 7
1987-1989
Correspondence
 Box 2 Folder 8
1987-1989
FOI-FBI/HQ
 Box 2 Folder 9
1987-1989
FOI- General Information- 1
 Box 2 Folder 10
1987-1989
FOI- General Information- 2
 Box 2 Folder 11
1987-1989
Michael Sherker Files
 Box 2 Folder 12
1988
Leon Friedman
 Box 2 Folder 13
1988-1989
Contact Sheets
 Box 2 Folder 14
1988-1989
Conversation- Notes
 Box 2 Folder 15
1988-1989
Michael Sherker- Stonewall
 Box 2 Folder 16
1988-1989
Michael Sherker- Stonewall Correspondece and LGBT Publications
 Box 2 Folder 17
1988-1989
Oral History Conference Panel
 Box 2 Folder 18
1988-1989
Windy City Times
 Box 2 Folder 19
1989
Gay Times (Magazine)/ Windy City Times (Newspaper)
 Box 2 Folder 20
1989
Interviewees
 Box 2 Folder 21