Harry Langhorne papers, 1972-1977.
Collection Number: 7304

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Harry Langhorne papers, 1972-1977.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7304
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.
Creator:
Langhorne, Harry.
Quanitities:
5 cubic feet.
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.
Series I. Subject Files Boxes 1-5

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Harry Langhorne papers, #7304. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Gay Activists Alliance (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subjects:
Homosexuality.
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Homophobia.
Sex instruction.
Gays -- Identity.
Gay liberation movement.
Sodomy.
Gays -- Political action.
Gay men.

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