Michael Scherker research files, 1989.
Collection Number: 7568

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Michael Scherker research files, 1989.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7568
Abstract:
Files pertaining to research on the 1969 Stonewall Riot.
Creator:
Scherker, Michael.
Quanitities:
.7 cubic feet.
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.

RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting Program: Human Sexuality Collection.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Michael Scherker research files, #7568. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Gay Liberation front
Mattachine Society of New York
Subjects:
Sex discrimination.
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Riots.
Gays.
Gay liberation movement.

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