Veronica Berrill Libel Lawsuit collection, 1973-2005.
Collection Number: 7747
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Veronica Berrill Libel Lawsuit collection, 1973-2005.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7747
Abstract:
Planning documents, correspondence, publicity, and news coverage of Veronica Berrill's
libel lawsuit against Kathleen and Neal Houde.
Creator:
Berrill, Veronica.
Quanitities:
.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Veronica Berrill, a high school teacher in Connecticut, initiated school anti-bullying
programs.
Planning documents, correspondence, publicity, and news coverage of Veronica Berrill's
libel lawsuit against Kathleen and Neal Houde related to Veronica Berrill's advocacy
in 1995 of the gay "Safe Zones" program at Brookfield High School in Brookfield, Connecticut,
where she taught. Includes a suggested mission statement for and press release from
the Committee for the Defense of Classroom Tolerance, which was founded to provide
moral and financial support to Veronica Berrill, and a copy of the Houdes' 1999 statement
of revocation.
Plus a selection of brochures, leaflets, and news clippings about AIDS and gay issues
from the late 1970s and early 1980s, collected by her son K. Berrill, including a
1979 interview with Dr. C.A. Tripp, "An Open Letter to CBS Television..." from Homosexuals
Intransigent!, a flyer explaining the protest of two movies portraying gay men and
lesbians, "Cruising" and "Windows," 1981 Wall Street Journal stories on "mysterious
ailment" plaguing drug users and homosexual males, a May 11, 1982 New York Times story
"New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials," Michael Denneny's "Gay Manifesto
for the 80's" from a 1981 Christopher Street magazine, and Jan Fowler's 1981 analysis
of the Family Protection Act.
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
Related collection: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, #7301, contains substantial files from K. Berrill's work directing the Anti-Violence Project,
1982-1994.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Veronica Berrill Libel Lawsuit collection, #7747. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Gay liberation movement -- United States.
Sexual orientation.
Lesbians -- United States.
Gay men -- United States.
Homosexuality and education -- Connecticut.
Homophobia.
AIDS (Disease)
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
AIDS- early response
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Berrill v. Houde: Committee for the Defense of Classroom Tolerance public records
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Berrill v. Houde: CDCT public relations [originals]
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Berrill v. Houde: newspaper clippings
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Berrill v. Houde: newspaper clippings [originals]
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Gay articles
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early 1980s |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Gay articles [originals]
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early 1980s |