Human Sexuality

ACT UP Ithaca records, 1989-1993   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7561
Records include subject files on women and AIDS, communities of color, health/community organizations, HIV exclusion (INS immigration policy), treatment data, Queer issues, Rep. James Seward, Senator Jesse Helms; files on various ACT UP actions, the national Marlboro-Miller boycott called in 1990, Board of Education's policy, and presidential candidate's positions on AIDS (1992); Also, member Ned Brinkley's files on local and national ACT UP events and news.

Advocate Research and Education Foundation/Advocate Experience Records, 1978-1981   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7310
The collection pertains chiefly to the Advocate Experience, an EST-derived seminar for lesbians and gays founded by David B. Goodstein. The contains various materials from 1978 to 1981 of the Advocate Research and Education Foundation Board and the Advocate Experience staff, and manuals pertaining to the Advocate Experience and the Outrageous Experience (a seminar for instructors).

AIDS education poster collection, 1970-2000   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collection Number: 7723
Posters, flyers, postcards, pamphlets and other ephemera promoting AIDS awareness and safe sex practices, from more than 45 different countries, including over 450 posters from 16 African countries, collected by Thomas Hill.

AIDSWORK of Tompkins County records, 1987-1994   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7324
Meeting minutes, budgets, grant proposals, broadsides, and some correspondence from Tompkins County AIDS Task Force and AIDS Work; also subject files, office files, material from other AIDS organizations, photographs, and other material.

Albertson, Joseph films, 1960-1970.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7308
Films by Albertson and others with primarily male homosexual and some heterosexual erotic themes.

Allore, Heather papers, 1993-1998   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7654
Agendas, notes, related documents, and correspondence from meetings of a Cornell University Working Group on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues,1993-1995, and of the Advisory Board to Cornell's Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Resource Office, 1995-1998. Also, notes and correspondence from the Cornell Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay Alliance in 1993.

Anonymous nudist and erotic photography collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7781
Photographic prints, slides, negatives, and short films; publications, brochures, books, and correspondence surrounding the work and personal life of a studio photographer who was active in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s.

Assistant Dean of Students for LGBT Student Support and Haven records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 37-1-3638
Clippings, handouts, and posters and some email, correspondence, administrative files from LBGT Support and Haven, 1979-2007. Foam-core panel with introduction to Spring 2006 exhibit at Tatkon Center.

Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychologists records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7592
Minutes, correspondence, financial records (1975-1986); an annotated copy of APA convention program (1973), and AGP newsletters.

Bachardy, Don artwork, 1996   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7704
Print of portrait of Evelyn Hooker, Ph.D., by Don Bachardy.

Balay, Anne oral histories with steel workers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7787
Transcripts of 38 interviews with lesbian, gay, and transgender steel workers from Northwest Indiana and Ontario, Canada.

Barrios, Joseph L. papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7784
Annotated student assembly minutes, resolutions, a speech, and other files relating to the struggle of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students to define a strong community for itself on the Cornell campus during the 1992-1993 academic year. These papers document four major stories that occurred on campus that year.

Berrill, Veronica, Libel Lawsuit collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7747
Planning documents, correspondence, publicity, and news coverage of Veronica Berrill's libel lawsuit against Kathleen and Neal Houde.

Berzon, Betty papers, 1972-1979   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7312
Tape recordings of a UCLA Extension Program, "The Homosexual in America," June 21, 1972; printed materials; and memorabilia, including buttons, reflecting the women's liberation movements in the 1970s, chiefly in Los Angeles and Southern California. Includes documentation of the Briggs Initiative to prohibit lesbian and gay teachers from being employed by public schools.

Big Table Records,1958-1960   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7720
Correspondence, primarily that of Albert N. Podell, business manager, pertaining to the finances, publishing, and advertising of the literary quarterly BIG TABLE, and to the publication of Beat and other modernist writing; also papers pertaining to an obscenity suit brought against the periodical. Major correspondents include Irving Rosenthal, Griselda Ohannessian, Roy Miller, Paul Carroll, and Laurence Ferlinghetti

Blagg, Larry gay club matchbook covers and ephemera,1969-1989.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7738
Over 300 matchbook covers from gay bars, discos, private clubs, restaurants, and bathhouses across the United States. There are also over 30 business cards from these establishments and over 30 personalized membership cards from private clubs of the early 1970s in New York.

Blank, Joani papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7827
Office files, videotape, posters, copies of articles by others, and books reflecting Blank's work and interests as a sex educator and owner of Down There Press and Good Vibrations. Included are many articles by Susie Bright and Annie Sprinkle.

Bluestein, Ron papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7749
Collected journals and photographs of writer Ron Bluestein.

Bowen, Michael J. sexplotation movie posters   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7783
Pressbook and single-sheet posters used to advertise pornographic films.

Bowman, Calvert W. papers, ca. 1941-1988   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7318
Erotic and pornographic prose manuscripts, photographs, drawings, films, slides, watercolors, and greeting cards collected by Bowman over a period of more than forty years.

Brass, Perry papers, 1968-1992   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7329
The Perry Brass papers consist of handwritten and typescript drafts of letters, articles, prose pieces, theatrical writings, diaries, poems, and essays, as well as photographs, publicity and promotional materials, scripts, letters to Brass from friends and family, and printed versions of articles as they appeared in various gay magazines. Most of the material in the collection is concerned with gay themes and the relationship between the gay and straight cultures; the correspondence also most often pertains to gay society, relations, or theatrical and literary milieus.

Breen, Walter H., papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7755
Correspondence, holograph notes and printed material from Walter H. Breen. The archive includes Breen's address book, approximately 90 pages, with extensive notations (referencing Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov, among others); approximately 47 typed manuscript pages with extensive hand-written notations on issues relating to homosexuality; approximately 60 typed pages, with extensive holograph notes, relating to the "Breen Developmental Inventory Questionnaire" and notes on the related "Project OJ"; a thirty-three page holograph manuscript by Breen entitled "Numbers are Fun!"; approximately seventy typed pages of poems and short works by Breen, many with holograph corrections; and an 18 page typed manuscript of a play entitled "Erokles", along with a 1958 letter from Burkhardt of Der Kreis/Le Cercle.

Brenner, Claudia papers, 1988-1990.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7631
Newspaper clippings about the attack and murder, the prosecution of of Carr, controversial coverage of the story by the Ithaca Journal, and Brenner's activities since then. Also, photographs of her with NGLTF staff and Senator Paul Simon, and files from her public speaking and activism on the issue. Transcripts of two tapes she made after the attack, which used in writing her book. An "evidence tag" that was placed on her backpack. Audio and videocassettes.

Bright, Susie papers and On Our Backs records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7788
Records of Bright's work writing and publishing about sexuality, including records of the lesbian sex journal On Our Backs.

Brown, Arch papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7799
Collection consists of personal memorabilia and biographical materials, manuscripts of plays and novels, scripts, news clippings and scrapbooks, audio-visual recordings and personal photographs as well as professional erotic photography.

Burton, Peter   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7758
Correspondence with British and U.S. authors, articles on Burton's writing, materials documenting Burton's writing, records of Millivres Books, and Burton's alphbetical reference collection.

Busch, Michael papers, 1986-1996.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7586
Subject files pertaining to Cornell and Ithaca lesbian and gay groups and issues, including AIDS Work of Tompkins County, Cornell AIDS Action, ACT UP Ithaca, and the Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Alliance.

Bush, Larry papers, 1977-1984   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7316
The collection consists of Bush's personal papers and collected news articles. Subjects include AIDS, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the National Gay Task Force, and the legislative and legal aspects of gay rights.

Cameron, Loren papers, 1961-2008   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7677
The Loren Cameron Papers consist of photographic portraits created by Loren Cameron, correspondence and other manuscript material specifically documenting the Female to Male transsexual community.

Carver, Lisa archive   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 8497
Periodicals, pasteups, proofs, ephemera, audiotapes, and a videotape, documenting Carver's work, life, and interests. Includes a complete run of Rollerderby (issues 1-25), as well as preliminary pasteups, proofs, artwork, and photographs for use in the zine. Also, ephemera and poster artwork for an issue of the zine Generation L, Suckdog and other projects; eight cassette tapes of music or performance sounds; and a VHS videotape containing a rough cut of the work Anatomically correct and Lisa Carver's laptop.

Chesney, Scott Gay Games 94 and Stonewall 25 March memorabilia,1994.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7583
Programs, fliers, handouts, event-specific magazines, newspapers, broadsides, and other memorabilia from the Gay Games 94 in New York City, and the Stonewall 25 March.

Citizen Soldier records, 1966-2007   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7033
Includes records of the Citizens' Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes and the Safe Return Amnesty Committee, both Vietnam War-era groups, and a successor of the two organizations, Citizen Soldier.

Coalition Advocating Rape Education records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 53-6-3867
Training materials produced by Janet Salmons-Rue, Andrea Parrot, and the Cornell Coalition Advocating Rape Education (C.A.R.E.)

Collection of pulp novels about bestiality   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7774
Collection of pulp novels about bestiality by various authors.

Cornell AIDS Action records,1987-1996   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 51-1-2746
Records of the Sexuality and AIDS educator (1987-1990) and Coordinator of Cornell AIDS Action (1990-1992), Sharon J. Dittman. Includes records of the CU AIDS Advisory Committee (1991-1992); training, workshop, and resource materials from Cornell AIDS Action and SAFER (Students for AIDS Facts Education and Responsibility); clippings on sexuality, religion, and other topics; also, educational videos on AIDS and sexuality.

Cornell Biology and Society 451   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 21-44-3298
Three scrapbooks from the "AIDS and Society" class. Also, a bed sheet "banner" with comments about AIDS by students who took the class the first time it was offered.

Cornell Cinema records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 37-7-4187
The Cornell Cinema video collection includes U.S. and international art film and art video works and documentary, as well as video distribution catalogs. As director of Cornell Cinema from 1982-1994, Richard Herskowitz began a program of purchasing and lending film and video artworks on videocassette. Subsequent Cinema director Mary Fessenden continued this program as long as demand persisted, then donated the video collection to the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in 2014. The collection is an important part of the history of Cornell Cinema. The collection focuses on significant works of historical, international, independent art cinema and video art. It includes catalogs from two video art exhibitions and annual catalogs from video distributors of the 1980s and 1990s. It also has Cornell Cinema calendars and posters from 1971 to 1983.

Cornell Eleven records and briefs   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4197
Files relating to the sex discrimination case, including files of J. Anthony Gaenslen (attorney for the plaintiffs) and Jennie Farley.

Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Coalition records, 1967-1999   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 37-6-1589
Following Columbia University students’ lead, in May 1968, Cornell student government approved the creation of the second gay college student organization in the nation. Jearld F. Moldenhauer, one of the founders, convinced student government to waive the requirement that the new group submit a list of its members’ names and recruited Father Daniel Berrigan of Cornell United Religious Work to sign on as the first faculty advisor. Founding documents of Cornell’s Student Homophile League (SHL), and correspondence, logbooks, financial records, bibliographies, minutes, photographs, event flyers and broadsides of the SHL and of Cornell student LGBTQIA+ student activism under subsequent names through 1999.

Cornell University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center records,1991-2007   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 53-23-3192
The collection contains files on the establishment of the Resource Office in 1994-1995 and its activities and events through 2010; annual and monthly reports; files on fall retreats; files on the production of a newsletter; files on specific events, subgroups, and activities, including Dialogue, a group on religion (1995-97), sexuality conferences (1995-97), posters and event planning documents; files on Resource Center history and specific issues, including an overall program review in the spring of 1997, the name change in 1998, a file on hate mail and acts of homophobia (1994-99), and a file on controversy over the teaching of a particular class by Prof. Ellis Hanson in 1997 or 1998.

Cornell University. Direct Action to Stop Homophobia records, 1999-2007.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 37-6-3552
Posters and banners from DASH events including a "DASH does Earth Day" poster, a "Happy Gay Jeans Day" paper banner, a "Valentines for ALL -- DASH" poster, "Day of Silence" materials, and 3 "D.O.M.A. [Defense of Marriage Act] IS ANTI-MARRIAGE" cardboard posters. Also, 20 painted cardboard posters from the "Live Homosexual Acts on Campus" events with slogans such as "Bisexual Playing the Banjo" and "Gay Kid Studying Orgo." Also a poster from the office giving office hours.

Cottrell, Honey Lee papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7822
Personal papers and photographic archives.

Cross-dressed French prisoner of war postcards   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7795
Photographic postcards of French soldiers held as prisoners of war in German internment camps during World War I. Two of the postcards have "Kriegsgefangenensendung" (prisoner of war communication) and the name of the internment camp, the Neues Lager at Königsbruck in Saxony, printed on the back. Both are dated and addressed from René Bossion, a member of the 4th Infantry Batallion, one addressed to Albert Bossion and one to Marie Louise Bossion in Lorient, France, but neither card bears a stamp or postmark. The soldiers may have been appearing in a theatrical of the sort that was common at the front. Both are cross-dressed in conservative clothing. The other two postcards, blank on the back, clearly depict scenes from theatricals presented by French prisoners of war interned at a camp in Münster, Germany. The shows featured painted backdrops and elaborate costumes, with all the female roles played by cross-dressed men. One of the postcards portrays a scene from "Les deux canards."

Cruikshank, Margaret letters 1982-1986   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7707
Correspondence from Valerie Taylor, 1982-1986.

de la tierra, tatiana's writing, 1996-2003   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7710
Self-published collections of her writings, copies of published articles and chapters, some of her unpublished pieces, and a collection of flyers and posters, mostly on Latina lesbian themes.

Diver, Jeffrey A. papers, 1965-1993   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3084
Scrapbook of Jeffrey Arnold Diver, covering his years in R.O.T.C., the Vietnam War, and events leading to his becoming a conscientious objector; and Selective Service documents of Jeffrey Diver, Geoffrey A. Holmes and Howard Cornell in support of their applications for conscientious objector status. Also, handouts relating to Cornell Library acquisitions of gay and lesbian books and journals, 1980; letters about the New York State Task Force on Gay Issues, 1984; and correspondence relating to Cornell library card privileges for domestic partners.

Dorothy Feola collection on lesbian and feminist publications, circa 1970-1986   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7303
Book catalogs, publicity materials on lesbian, gay, and feminist issues, newsletters and other materials from chapters of the National Organization for Women, items relating to publishing, and newsletters of interest to Feola such as The Animals' Agenda and Family Planning Perspectives

Earle, Brent Nicholson papers, 1986-2003.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7457
Informational and publicity materials about the 1986 American Run for the End of AIDS, the 1990 Rainbow Run for the End of Aids, and the 1994 Ranbow Roll, plus Earle's Christmas letters and cards sent to friends and supporters; occasional announcements and letters regarding ongoing activities of A.R.E.A; obituaries and a eulogy for Marion Nicholson; a copy of an article by Earle in New York Newsday about Magic Johnson; 2 A.R.E.A. t-shirts; a broadside; and other material related to his AIDS activism.

Ellis, Havelock papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7773
Documents related to the publishing of Havelock Ellis' "The Psychology of Sex" in the United States, including signed contracts, his copyright claim, and Francoise Lafitte-Cyon's 1966 renewal of the copyright claim.

Ellis, Michael J. papers, 1975-1993   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7615
Correspondence, subject files, audiocassettes, and other materials documenting the shift from gay liberation to gay and lesbian activism, and concerning the establishment of organizations, programs, and issues at Cornell and in Ithaca, including the Cornell University Library's Human Sexuality Collection, Ithaca's Fair Practice Ordinance, the adoption of Local Law C, the addition of sexual orientation to the University's Equal Opportunity statement, and the development of AIDS awareness and policy.

Empire State Pride Agenda records, 1990-2013   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7630
Subject files, publicity items, programs for fund raising and political events, news and flyers on gay and lesbian issues; also, minutes (1991-1994), chronological files on Pride Agenda's activities, posters, t-shirts, stickers, and other ephemera relating to fund raising and political events.

Erotic male photographs, circa 1980-2012   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7786
Erotic self-portraits of a white man.

Ettelbrick, Paula L. papers,1986-1993.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7644
Court orders and files relating to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's pioneering work on second parent adoption. Included are files on: second parent adoption, other adoption cases, co-parenting cases, and domestic partners. Also, files on marital status discrimination, health, sodomy laws, violence, and a federal civil rights law.

Family planning, birth control, and sexuality publications,circa 1934-1989, 2000.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7326
Reports, conference proceedings, and books retired from Planned Parenthood's library; also audiovisual materials on contraception, menstruation, teenage pregnancy, world population, and abortion.

Feldblum, Chai papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7697
Materials of Professor Chai Feldblum relating to the effort by the Campaign for Military Service to assist President Clinton in his stated desire to lift the ban on gay service members. These materials include all documents used to lobby Congress and raise public awareness in 1993, as well as internal documents detailing efforts to propose alternatives to the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. Also, files regarding the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

Firebrand Books records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7670
Complete archives of Firebrand Books, founded by Nancy Bereano and recognized by the Lambda Literary Awards with their Publisher’s Service Award in 1996. Includes detailed files on published books; rejection letters; invoices; distributors' reports; vendor files; files on conferences and events the publisher attended, including her 1991 service on the Advisory Committee to the Human Sexuality Collection; mailing list; lists of Firebrand employees and interns; summary of financial donations to Firebrand; Firebrand's web site; and posters that decorated the office.

Fisher, George papers, 1951-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7437
Elysian Fields, Booksellers, business records, 1974-1988, including orders, invoices, bills, mail order forms, special order correspondence. bibliographies and catalogs; also, personal correspondence, a clipping and subject file, photo prints, original erotic and pornographic manuscripts, erotica and pornographic artwork, including drawings and photographs.

Foster, James M. papers, 1971-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7439
Foster's personal files, including correspondence, sexual audiocassettes, and records pertaining to Foster's business enterprise and various gay rights organizations. Other records concern public health issues, most notably AIDS.

Fund For Human Dignity records, 1974-1988   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7309
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, financial records and reports, and publications; correspondence with the National Gay Task Force (NGTF).

Garcia, Robert papers, 1988-1993   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7574
The Robert Garcia papers include personal papers and files reflecting Garcia's personal life and involvement in lesbian and gay rights, reproductive rights, and AIDS activism. Garcia's papers also reflect his involvement in ACT UP-New York, the national organization Men of All Colors Together (formerly Black and White Men Together), and a video collective called House of Color; also, testimony regarding his arrest for civil disobedience at an ACT UP demonstration. A collection of videocassettes includes biographical material as well as footage related to activism about AIDS, identity politics, race and sexuality; also work by House of Color.

Gaver, Chasen papers, 1977-1988   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7575
The papers of the "performance poet" Chasen Gaver include personal papers as well as photographs, videotapes and audiotapes; also press materials and articles about him and his work, and announcements of his performances. Also, family photographs and correspondence, personal correspondence, a diary called "Fever Journal," notebooks meticulously charting Gaver's health, and a shadowbox puppet theater used for recitations of Gaver's poem "The Ugly Side of Pretty."

Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7560
Records of the organization and information on various services provided by GAGV. Also, information on the publication The Empty Closet and two sets of alphabetical subject files collected by the publication.

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Records, 1985-2001   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7669
Administrative and subject files, correspondence, media kits, press releases, clippings, and files on the GLAAD Media Award events from the New York City, Atlanta, and Los Angeles offices.

Gay Games collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7813
Memorabilia from the 1994 Gay Games, including registration packets, photographs, ephemera, T-shirts, periodicals and newspapers.

Gay Liberation Front records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7805
Records of the organization including newsletters, financial records, correspondence, minutes, fliers, notes, and programs.

Gay male pornographic movies,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7637
Gay male pornographic 8mm films; packages depict and characterize the sale of such material.

Gay male pornographic video collection,1978-1992.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7563
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Gay Media Task Force records, 1975-1988   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7315
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.

Gay men's popular fiction collection, 1931-1992   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7456
Erotic and pornographic novels on gay men's subjects, including such themes as muscle, cowboy, sado-masochism, sailors, and leather, and occurring in such series as Parisian Press, Blueboy Library, Greenleaf, HIS 69, and many others.

Gay Publishing Company papers, 1964-1965   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7442
Business records, incorporation and funding papers, correspondence, advertising samples, and submissions pertaining to the Gay Publishing Company of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Also, like records pertaining to that company's affiliated enterprises, including Gay International Press, Lord and Shields, Ltd, and Scene Publishing Company; correspondence of editors, publishers, and owners James C. Ward, Robert M. Marsden, and Robert Maynard.

Gay travel brochures,1959, 1982-2003.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7612
Brochures and maps describing vacation destinations for a gay clientele.

Gaysweek publishing items,1977-1978   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7611
Appeals to advertisers, publishing schedule information, rates, and market research information of Gaysweek.

George-Murray, R. poetry pamphlets   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7760
Small pamphlets resembling chapbooks, each containing one or several poems on erotic or philosophical subjects. Some are printed, others handwritten, and others have text printed out from a computer and then mounted on paper decorated by hand.

Giami, Alain collection on sexual practices and attitudes and their health outcomes   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7833
The collection contains faculty research papers as well as documentation (i.e., erotic and pornographic magazines) from sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, France, Norway, and the United States.

Ginsburg, Judith papers,1990-1993   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 14-9-3280
Files relating to Professor Ginsburg's participation in the organization of the American Philological Association's Committee on Professional Matters and to a session on Sexual Harrassment and the Classics Profession proposed for an annual meeting of the association.

Gittelson, Harry collection,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7845
Collection includes mementos of U.S. gay culture and politics, including Anita Bryant photograph and an autographed LP vinyl record album "Anita Bryant: Battle Hymn of the Republic", BAPA newsletter (1986-1988), directory (1987-1988), and letter of recognition to Mr. Gittelson (October 10, 1988), items related to Lilly Tomlin's character Edith Ann, Los Angeles Times December 20, 2003 obituary of Dr. Judd Marmor, Lalique statuette of a female figure, and a cake topper of 2 male figures bought in West Hollywood, May 2014.

Gittings, Barbara and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection,1965-2007.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7645
News clippings featuring Gittings over her years of lesbian and gay rights activism, 1965-2007, including photocopies of photographs of Gittings in demonstrations in front of Independence Hall on July 4, 1966 and July 4, 1969 and in front of the White House in October 1965, a clipping about Gittings' 1969 visit to speak at Cornell University, and obituaries and information about her memorial service. Also, brochures, position statements, and flyers from gay rights events and organizations, including election materials from Franklin Kameny's congressional run in 1971, and 1982 news clippings about efforts to establish a gay scholarship and gay book fund at Cornell.

Goldstaub family papers, 1951-2008   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7567
The Goldstaub family papers relate to the effect on the family of Sylvia and Bernie Goldstaub when their son Mark came out to them as a gay man in 1977 and later when he became HIV-positive. The collection includes an audiotape of "Venetian Echoes" composed by Paul Goldstaub in memory of Mark, as well as the score and program notes. Also materials relating to Sylvia's book Unconditional Love: Mom! Dad! Love Me Please!

Goodstein, David papers, [ca. 1954-1985]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7311
The David B. Goodstein collection includes documents related to Goodstein's role as a spokesperson for the gay rights movement, the Concerned Voters of California's response to the anti-gay Briggs Initiative, the "Advocate Experience," and Dade County's anti-gay activity. Also includes personal papers (certificates, diplomas, military documents, etc.) as well as photographs and slides of show horses and fine art and of Goodstein and his friends.

Granger, Ethel archive of photographs and ephemera,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7772
Includes cardboard box addressed to Ethel Granger from Kurt Ingerl, containing a ring-binder with 87 gelatin silver prints, ca. 1970. (Ingerl, an Austrian artist, used these photographs as the basis for a series of sculptures.) 2 c-type (chromogenic color) and 91 gelatin silver prints showing candid photographs of Granger from ca. 1933-ca. 1980; a pencil sketch of Granger signed by J.G. Wolcott, 1957 and 5 photographic reproductions of other works by Wolcott; 67 gelatin silver prints of other like-minded individuals; "Tiny Waist Stories," typed manuscript (4 leaves); two of Granger's earrings (which appear in some of the photographs), a belt buckle, and a button.

Grey, Antony's "Sex, Morality and Happiness."   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7706
Text of a lecture delivered in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in October and November 1967 at W. Dorr Legg's invitation.

Hallinen, Gary papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7804
Files belonging to Gary Hallinen from various gay rights organizations including the Gay Liberation Front, GALS, and the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley.

Hamill, Janet archive,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 8062
The Janet Hamill Archive contains extensive materials that document the life and work of Janet Hamill and illuminates Hamill's unique relationship with her longtime friend Patti Smith.

Hamilton, Eleanor Poorman papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7836
Collection includes articles by Eleanor Hamilton from weekly columns in Point Reyes Light and manuscripts of unpublished autobiographical material, including "Story of a Happy Marriage", "My Vow, "The Maternal Care Adoption Center" and "The Treasure and Tragedy of Wilhelm Reich".

Hepburn, Ethel Remington   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7759
The collection contains correspondence and other materials related to the early birth control movement in the United States.

Heterosexual and gay male pornographic DVDs, [ca. 1997-2003]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7703
Pornographic DVDs, the majority of which are heterosexual, the rest gay male. Collected by a gay man, most of the heterosexual erotica contains images and scenes of more than one man having sex with one woman.

Heterosexual and miscellaneous pornography periodicals,[ca.1950-2003]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7739
Small runs of erotic magazines aimed mostly at a heterosexual male audience. Models are mostly female. Titles may be published in the United States or internationally.

Heterosexual popular fiction collection, 1955-1992   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7690
Erotic and pornographic novels in the pulp paperback format on heterosexual subjects.

Heyman, Richard papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7770
Scrapbooks, campaign material, speeches, photographs, political buttons, and other material chronicling Heyman's political career.

Hiscock, Rosita Ella papers,1963-1965.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7454
Letters and cards received by Hiscock from Rodger C. Grubbs, 1963-1965, concerning a terminated love affair.

Hollister, John W. papers,ca. 1980-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7685
Notes, announcements, brochures, and publications from gay rights and AIDS organizations in Binghamton, Ithaca, and nationally.

Homo Xtra (HX) records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7840
Organizational files from the co-publisher Matthew Blank.

Human Rights Campaign records, 1975-2015   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7712
Project files, correspondence, financial and administrative records, subject files, press clippings, photographs, and miscellany that, taken together, provide a broad overview of the American movement for lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual rights starting in 1980. HRC(F)'s lobbying, voter mobilization efforts, and grassroots organizing throughout the United States are well documented, as are its education and outreach efforts and the work of its various units that have served as think tanks: the Human Rights and Health Fund, The Triangle Institute (TTI), and the HRC Foundation.

Human sexuality-related videorecordings,1990-2013   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7713
Videorecorded productions relating to Human Sexuality.

Ingolia, Tyler collection of Popstitutes videotapes   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7830
Original videocassette recordings of performances by the Popstitutes. Performers who appear in the videos include Michael Collins, Brad Kellogg, Alvin Orloff; cabaret performer, writer, and transgender activist Justin Vivian Bond; transwoman cabaret singers Veronica Klaus and Bambi Lake; composer and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky; pop novelty act the Del Rubio Triplets; punk performers and writers Jennifer Blowdryer and Danielle Willis; Drew Daniel of the experimental electronic music duo Matmos; painter and queercore performer Jerome Caja; avant-garde drag performer The Steve Lady (Steven Price); and Fudgie Frottage (Lu Read), co-founder of the San Francisco Drag King Contest. None of the videos have been published or posted online.

Ithaca Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Task Force records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7571
Correspondence, press releases, original layouts, and other working files from the publication of "OUTLINES: A Newsletter for Ithaca's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community," from the first issue, Dec. 1984 to #23, April/May 1989, and from 1993-1998. Plus, the Ithaca Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Task Force's publication of local businesses and organizations and mailings sent to members, 1991-2005 (incomplete). One issue of the Big Red Rag.

Juang, Richard Milton   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7764
Materials related to trans activism and Asian American, queer, and transgender identities, including correspondence and materials related to a 2001 Transgender Law and Policy Roundtable sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) of the City University of New York.

Kane-Demaios', J. Ari male erotic films   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7780
Films collected by J. Ari Kane with primarily male homosexual erotic pornography.

Kelly, James P. Papers, 1977-1979, 1997   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7765
Personal calendars, Kelly's ticket to a gay-themed event held at Disneyland, and reflections of his Cornell years.

Kimball, Harris L. papers,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7823
Records of the landmark cases in which Mr. Kimball represented various clients and other files and ephemera about Kimball.

Kimmel, Douglas C. papers,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7843
Versions of Kimmel's professional writing, including an abstract of his 1970 dissertation though "Gerodiversity and Social Justice: Voices of Minority Elders," a paper presented at the 2009 Multicultural Conference and Summit in New Orleans. His work addresses health issues of LGBT populations in rural communities, HIV testing and safer sex practices, ageism, racism and homophobia, gay and bisexual Asian and African-American men, and other aspects of providing mental and other health care to LGBT populations over their lifespan.

Knoebel, C. John papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7810
Documents, photographs, audiotapes, videos, T-shirts, and magazines documenting C. John Knoebel's work for the Advocate and Triangle Marketing Services, as well as his political activities. Includes interviews with David Goodstein, Phil Andros, and Tom of Finland; surveys and marketing research; gay merchandise catalogs from the 1990s and early 2000s; recordings of radio advertisements for the Advocate; and special issues of the Advocate and other LGBT magazines.

Kristen Gay Esterberg oral history project files,1989-1992.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7621
Transcripts and tape recordings of interviews with Ithaca, New York area lesbians and bisexual women, conducted by Esterberg in 1989-1990. The interviews address the ways in which lesbian and bisexual women identify their sexual identities through clothing, behavior, hair style, food preferences, etc. The interviews also explore the adoption and rejection of gendered roles by the interviewees in their search for a lesbian community and for same-sex relationships.

Kronzak, Tracy papers, 1992-2008   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7599
Materials collected by Tracy Kronzak while a student at Cornell University. Includes material on gay life and AIDS in Russia, materials from the 1996 display of the AIDS Quilt in Washington, D.C., materials from gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender organizations at Cornell and in San Francisco.

Ladas, Alice Kahn papers, 1943-2013   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7728
Alice Kahn Ladas speeches and articles, correspondence, memos, pamphlets, and clippings.

Langhorne, Harry papers, 1972-1977   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7304
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.

Layton, Pauline papers, 1967-1999   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7620
Documents from the creation and early years of Cornell's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered student groups, and the Cornell Women's Studies Program (1968-1981). Pamphlets, articles, and other documents on the women's, sexual liberation, and gay liberation movements of the late 1960's and 1970's. Layton's reflections on her own gender and sexual identity. Videos concerning AIDS and equal rights for gays and lesbians.

Leach, Robert J. papers, 1930-1998   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7609
The collection documents Leach's determination and expression of his sexual identity, his life as a closeted gay, his coming out, and his emotional life as a gay American abroad and on Nantucket Island, as well as the details of his family life, friendships, and Leach family genealogy. The collection also includes correspondence from Robert Leach describing his donations, providing context for his collection at Cornell.

Leonard, Arthur S. Gay Games 94 and Stonewall 25 celebration memorabilia,1994.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7585
Programs, notices, magazines, and other material from the 1994 Gay Games in New York City; also a printed program from a presentation of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Lesbians and Gay Men in the Profession in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot.

Lesbian popular fiction collection,1934-1988.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7455
Erotic pulp novels on lesbian subjects, including such themes as seduction, secrecy, and danger.

Lewis, Gladys Adelina papers, 1990-1975   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7763
Manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials of early 20th century writer Gladys Adelina Lewis.

Limp Wrist collection,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7848
Posters, flyers, handbills, lyric sheets, record inserts, cover art and other ephemera from Limp Wrist's performances in Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Japan, and the U.S. East Coast (Brooklyn, Manhattan), Midwest (Madison, Minneapolis, Chicago), and West Coast (Seattle, Portland, and throughout California). Some concert advertisements state that the shows are open to all-ages and reflect their straight-edge rejection of alcohol and drugs. The documents show an engagement in radical queer politics, a critique of consumer culture and wealth, and an appreciation of sex-positive erotic imagery from the leather SM scene.

Los Crudos collection,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7790
40 items including posters, flyers, handbills, lyric sheets, LP inserts, record covers, audiocassette tape covers, and other ephemera, documenting the band's performances in Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, and Mexico, as well as in many U.S. cities. Included is the flyer for the band's first performance in 1991, as well as the poster for its final concert in 1998, which is an original linocut print produced by the noted gallery and printmaking workshop Taller Mestizarte. Also included are one issue of the zine Conexion rockeria (Broadville, Illinois); an original artwork using photocopy, two-color serigraphy and collage, for the cover of a 45 rpm extended play record, Las injusticias caen como pesadillas (1993); and a flyer for a Los Crudos concert in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico, with questions handwritten in Spanish on the back, from a writer for a Mexican punk zine who interviewed the band.

Lynch, Robert papers, 1963-1989   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7320
The Robert Lynch papers consist of correspondence, diaries, poems and chapbooks of unpublished poetry, and typescripts; also, financial, legal, and business records and mailings, miscellaneous collected printed material, brochures, photoprints, photo negatives, videocassettes, slides, movie films, children's drawings, greeting cards, perfunctory mailings, clippings, genealogical charts, a high school memory book, pressed wildflowers and other botanical specimens, and occasional notes left by others for Lynch.

Mail order brides and international dating collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7842
Letters, photographs, catalogs, membership materials, instructions, rules, numerous "profiles" and other documents relating to mail order brides and other international match-making services spanning from 1987 to 1998. About a third of the archive by volume consists of catalogs, order forms and other promotional material from a variety of companies, including "Compatibility Unlimited", "Scanna International" and "Latin Connections". Many of these documents are marked by holograph notations, particularly at photographs, indicating women with whom he'd like to correspond. The selection of correspondence and photographs show a wide variety of backgrounds, with letters from women from Australia to Peru, some even in their native languages. Also include some documents relating to court cases and restraining orders.

Mail order erotica, circa 1966-2000   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7634
Miscellaneous mail order brochures, fliers, advertisements, and clippings relating to pornographic and erotic videos, photographs, publications, sexual aids and other erotic merchandise aimed at heterosexuals and gay men.

Male model pornography magazines, mainly single issues, circa 1965-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7633
Pornography magazines featuring men, mostly the first and only volumes of a title.

Mariposa Education and Research Foundation records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7300
Mariposa's organizational records, plus some of the ephemera and audio-visual materials it collected.

Mariposa portrait series.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7602
Ink drawings by Don Bachardy of leaders of the gay and lesbian liberation movement.

Marston, Brenda J. 1993 March on Washington memorabilia, 1993   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7705
Program, broadsides, coupons, and other ephemera handed out at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in Washington, DC. Also, a list of chants heard and t-shirts seen.

Martin, Gordon papers, circa 1960-1985.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7305
The collection consists of material of a homoerotic nature assembled by Gordon Martin, and includes typescripts and photocopies of erotic/pornographic short prose fictions; catalogs and brochures of mail order enterprises; and erotic and pornographic films.

McCrank, Mary papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7806
Files belonging to Rochester area gay rights activist, Mary McCrank, including news clippings, correspondence, posters, fliers, and a transcript of the debate in the Senate on a bias-related violence bill.

McDonald, Boyd papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7782
Files relating to Boyd's and others' work with "The Guide: Gay travel, entertainment, politics, & sex," "Alibi," and ""Straight to Hell: The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts."

McIntosh, David Patrick papers,1965-1989.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7562
Correspondence, journals, poetry, songs, fiction, and plays by David McIntosh. Includes audio tapes of his short opera, Can.

McNaught, Brian R. papers, circa 1970-2004   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7590
The Brian R. McNaught collection documents McNaught's career as a sexuality activist, a church activist, writer, and sensitivity trainer. Topics include the controversy of gays in the Catholic Church, AIDS training and awareness, homophobia in the workplace, and gay rights. McNaught's works, books and videos include A Disturbed Peace, On Being Gay, Gay Issues in the Workplace, Growing Up Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia in the Workplace, and Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?.

McWhirter, David P. papers, 1976-1984   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7317
The David P. McWhirter papers relate to human sexuality in general and to homosexuality in particular. Subject files derive from sexuality and privacy commissions on which McWhirter served. The collection includes numerous typescripts of pornographic stories.

Medical Society of the County of Monroe records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 3083
Subject files of committees, minutes of meetings, reports, records of death associated with pregnancy and childbirth, constitution and bylaws as amended June 1876, financial records, pamphlets, and scrapbooks of the Medical Society of the County of Monroe, Inc.

Men of All Colors Together/New York records, 1980-2006   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7576
Records of the organization Men of All Colors Together/New York (MACT/NY) since its founding in 1980.

Meyer, Russ collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 8562
Screenplays, publicity posters, and photographs for erotic and exploitation films directed by Russ Meyer. Includes a press kit for the film "Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens" (1979) and the original pilot script for "The Pornies of Payton Junction" by Martin Winkler (1969). Included are screenplays for "The Desperate Women" (written by Samuel Newman), "Supervixens" (written by Meyer), "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (written by Roger Ebert), "Briefing for a Descent Into Hell" (written by Rik Friday), "Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens" (written by Meyer together with R. Hyde, aka Roger Ebert), and "Vixen!" (written by Meyer; actress Erica Gavin's copy, with her annotations).

Michel, Martin erotic films   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7800
Vintage pornographic films (16 mm, 8 mm, and super-8). Although they are mainly on gay male themes, some have heterosexual, lesbian, or pseudo-lesbian (for a heterosexual male audience) content. With the films are a few pieces of ephemera, including a mailing envelope from the Evergreen Club postmarked August 1973, and another mailer with an unopened invoice. With each film are notes made by Thomas Waugh as he was doing research for his book, Hard to imagine: Gay male eroticism in photography and film from their beginnings to Stonewall .

Mid-Hudson Valley Transgender Association records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7832
Programs, photographs, books, serials, papers, conference materials, and videos documenting the Club's activities and recent literature on transgender themes, including intersexuality. Books and serials from their library are cataloged individually.

Miller, Michael papers, 1984-1990.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7436
Ithaca Lesbian and Gay Task Force records, 1984-1990, including mailing lists, correspondence and internal memos, flyers for events, a summary of accomplishments, 1984-1986, information on the Ithaca Fair Practices Ordinance passed in September 1984 (Chapter 29 of the Ithaca Municipal Code) making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, suggestions for the platform of the Democratic Party of Tompkins County, minutes, Miller's own meeting notes, copies of OUTLINES, the Task Force's newsletter, and grant proposals, notes, and flyers for the 1989 Ithaca Lesbian and Gay Arts Festival. Also, other gay-related materials collected by Miller, 1985-1990, including Cornell University Gay PAC material, gay political material from Pittsburgh in 1986, and newsletters of NOGLSTP (National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals)

Miscellaneous human sexuality periodicals,circa 1950-2003   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7687
Mostly small runs of periodicals on a variety of human sexuality subjects, including lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgender people, AIDS, feminism, and gender and sexual identity. Titles may be published in the United States or internationally.

Miscellaneous popular fiction collection, 1944-1992   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7691
Erotic and pornographic novels in the pulp paperback format on a variety of subjects including swinging, bisexuality, sadomasochism, incest, and bestiality.

Mitchell, Larry Papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7820
Mitchell's publications, drafts of his and other people's writings (including a draft of a Harvey Fierstein piece), interviews, reviews and awards for his writing and the work of Calamus Books, and personal and family papers, including journals and diaries.

Moldenhauer, Jearld papers, 2003   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7708
Letter to Rick Bebout, author of a history of "The Body Politic" available at www.rbebout.com., offering his corrections and perspective.

NAMBLA manuscripts   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7729
Manuscripts submitted for publication to the North American Man-Boy Love Association, together with copies of NAMBLA's constitution. Included are short stories, poetry, and essays.

Namibian HIV/AIDS and maternal and child public health posters   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7752
osters promoting AIDS awareness, safe sex practices, maternal and child health in Namibia, collected by Monica Ruiz-Casares.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2008   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7301
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) collection consists of correspondence, press clippings, financial and administrative records, subject files, and photographs that, taken together, provide a broad overview of the U. S. movement for lesbian and gay civil rights in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Subject files in the collection range from the California and Dade County, Florida civil rights battles of the late 1970s to the ongoing political skirmishes around the AIDS epidemic, and comprehend a wide array of legal and cultural issues in between. NGLTF projects included here address workplace discrimination and violence against lesbians and gay men, for instance; and an entire sub-series of subject files preserves materials from more than one hundred lesbian and gay organizations across the U.S. The bulk of the material here covers the mid-1980s, and is thinner around its early history (the organization was smaller in the 1970s) and its contemporary work (active files are being kept at NGLTF offices in Washington, DC.)

National Lesbian and Gay Health Association records,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7613
Correspondence, subject files, minutes, financial records, conference planning files, publications, proposals, audio recordings, and videocassettes of the National Lesbian and Gay Health Foundation and the Federation of AIDS Related Organizations (FARO).

National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (U.S.) records,1988-20158.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7742
Programs and planning documents for Lavender Law conferences, Board of Directors files, by-laws and long-range planning documents, correspondence, and brochures, t-shirts, and other publicity pieces for the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association.

Neal, Barbara Gay Games memorabilia,1994.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7584
Programs, broadsides, coupons, magazines, schedules, and other ephemera and written material pertaining to the 1994 Gay Games in New York City, especially the women's ice hockey and martial arts competitions.

Nee, Michael H. clippings collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7785
A collection of clippings documenting anything related to gay people.

New York City League for Sexual Freedom and The Feminists files   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7844
Files about the NYC League for Sexual Freedom, all from 1964, including a proposal for its structure dated 20 April 1964, and a pink mimeographed rough draft of this proposal with handwritten notes. Seven letters to and from Goring about the League, 1 from Jefferson Poland. Danny Sloan wrote to William Goring about Sloan's recent broadcast with Barry Gray on December 14th. On the letterhead, Allen Ginsberg and others are listed as advisory committee members of the NYLSF. Flyers showing the issues of concern to the League included the military's rules on sexuality and invasion of privacy; freedom to be nude; the rights of publishers, booksellers, and motion picture makers to create and distribute erotica; the defense of comedian Lenny Bruce; the Village Voice refusing to advertise a lesbian event; homosexual rights; legalizing prostitution; rights for prisoners; wife swapping and the swinging lifestyle; and a campaign to liberalize the policies of the Reference division of the NY Public Library. Also a flyer announcing Ralph Ginzburg speaking about his erotic magazine Eros, and newspaper clippings.

Noble, John papers,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7850
Correspondence, invitations, fliers, forms, photocopies of news articles, serials, and newsletters related to multiple LGBT organizations in the Rochester, NY area.

O'Leary, Jean papers, 1977-1978   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7321
Correspondence, notes, minutes, and press releases pertaining to the International Women's Year and its national conference in 1977; also, questionnaires, lists of delegates, and supplementary publications relating to the International Women's Year, its conference, and to women's and lesbian issues.

Orloff, Alvin and Michael Collins papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7789
Manuscripts, ephemera, photographs, posters, clippings, and other materials documenting the queer punk, performance and club scenes in San Francisco from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, at a time when AIDS was devastating the city's gay population and when the activist groups ACT UP and Queer Nation emerged in response to the epidemic. The papers focus on the Popstitutes and the many other initiatives by Collins and other group members and associates in the following decade, including Playstitute and Klubstitute. The personal collection of manuscripts, ephemera, posters, photographs and other materials documenting the groundbreaking queer punk, performance and club scenes in San Francisco from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, at a time when AIDS was devastating the city's gay population and when the activist groups ACT UP and Queer Nation emerged in response to the epidemic. With more than 425 leaves of typescripts and manuscripts and more than 900 items of ephemera and related materials, the collection offers rich primary sources for research in cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies, contemporary history, theater history, art history and related disciplines. The papers focus on The Popstitutes - a seminal San Francisco queer performance group and punk band founded in 1986 by Michael Collins ("Diet Popstitute," 1958-1995); Brad Kellogg ("Bad Popstitute"); and Alvin Orloff ("Remix von Popstitute")-and on the dizzying array of activities spawned by Collins and the other members and associates of the group in the decade that followed.

OutServe-SLDN Records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7821
Pamphlets provided to soldiers, videos and photos of national dinners organized to support the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and other posters and records of the organization.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7616
The Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG) records consist of documents pertaining to the operations of the organization, including administrative records, project files, planning documents, regional directors' files, budget information, the 1992 Strategic Plan, correspondence, board meeting notes, by-laws and articles of incorporation, and other papers. Subject files include material on HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS care, family support networks, and other organizations and services in the field of gay rights and AIDS support. Also included are audiocassettes from P-FLAG National Conventions (1982-1996), and two videos.

Parrot, Andrea papers, 1970-2009   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 23-26-3836
Files reflecting Prof. Parrot's involvement in the Center for Crime Victim and Sexual Assault Services of Tompkins County, originally Ithaca Rape Crisis, and subject files about violence against women, including newspaper clippings, some letters and press releases, and a few photographs, from the 1970s through 2009.

Petersen, David papers, [ca. 1989-1992].   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7626
Files on early AIDS/insurance activism and ACT-UP files on health insurance; subject files pertaining to viatical settlements, financial planning, the New York State Health Care Reform bill, and the organizations New Yorkers for Affordable Health Care, and Affording Care.

Phillips, Gretchen Papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7839
Collection provides a comprehensive account of Gretchen Phillips' musical career, including posters, fan mail, contracts, and correspondence with other artists, record companies, and manager Jim Fouratt.

Photographs and postcards of gender collection,[ca. 1900-1960]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7717
A collection of photographs and postcards from various sources, primarily of unidentified people by unidentified photographers that show women and men in various homosocial or heterosocial poses or in gender normative or transgressive dress or behavior. Together, they give visual documentation of how gender has been expressed by body language, dress and other visual clues.

Photographs and postcards of women collection, circa 1900-1960   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7678
A collection of photographs and postcards from various sources, primarily of unidentified women by unidentified photographers that show women in various homosocial poses or in gender transgressive dress or behavior. Some images may be of sisters, relatives, or female friends; some are explicitly lesbian in nature. Together, they give visual documentation of women's relationships, body language, and dress. Specific descriptions follow.

Pin up posters of women   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7766
Erotic pin up posters of women, two showing women together, published by a British company, GB Posters.

Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7778
Postcards portraying cross-dressing and female and male impersonators in France, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Romania. Postcards include photographic and photomechanical prints, some hand-colored. All are printed between circa 1900 and 1930 and depict performers on amateur, café-concert, music-hall, and legitimate stages at the high-point of cross-dressing as a form of entertainment. Many depict gallant visual narratives of women being wooed by other women dressed as men. Additional postcards include humorous images, popular genre narratives, promotional portraits of theatrical and music-hall male and female impersonators, as well as World War I POW camp theatrical productions. Two postcards are credited to female photographers, Ilse Magenmiller (German) and Jessie Westbrook (American). Sets of postcards depict narrative sequences, including Joan of Arc, Les Cerises, Chasé-croisé, Idylle à Trianon, and Une Amourette Louis XV. One such sequence, Pierrot et Columbine (circa 1900), portrays a sexual ending with Columbine represented nude (in a pink body suit). Male and female impersonators featured include Robert Bertin, Jeanne Bloch, Leopoldo Fregoli, Monte Verdi, Louis Vernassier, Sarah Bernhardt, Gaby Deslys, John Graffton, Betti Kuhn, Hetty King, Zena Dare, Vesta Tilley, Winifred Ward, and Huntley Wright, among others.

Postcards of German female impersonators,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7636
Sixty-two late-Wilhelmine male transvestite postcards portraying thirty individuals in their Damen-Imitator personas, including three images of "Gauze, Canadian Indian Soprano." Sixteen are signed or inscribed by the subjects, with references to gay cabarets in Berlin, Cologne, Kiel, and throughout the country. Five are addressed to Paul Shafer and one to Asta, female impersonators of the period, who are also pictured on some of the cards. One postcard depicts Man de Wirth in costume, circa 1920s. This may be Franz Man de Wirth, described on an 1898 German postcard (viewed online) as the best female impersonator of the time.

Posters for pornographic movies   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7761
Posters promoting X-rated movies.

Prostitute advertising cards   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7743
>900 different prostitutes' trade cards, plus some duplicates, produced primarily as advertisements to be posted inside traditional red London phone booths (on the glass itself or inserted between the glass and frame), from which these were regularly retrieved by Timothy d'Arch Smith and his godson Matthew Ayres from 1991-2006, almost entirely in the Baker Street/Paddington area and in Earls Court.

Publisher's Archive: Hommes pour Hommes   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7816
The business records, submissions of erotic-narrative letters, and submissions of and responses to personal ads for Hommes pour Hommes, a gay sexual-contact magazine produced in Paris, covering the period 1990 until it ceased publication in 2003.

PWA Health Group records, 1990-1991   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7528
Correspondence, notes, bibliographies, articles, and conference programs related to AIDS, particularly new drugs for the treatment of opportunistic infections and the specific issues relating to women with AIDS. Includes correspondence with drug companies and files about the Countdown/18 Months Plan of ACT UP/NY's Treatment and Data Committee.

Queers for Economic Justice   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7802
The records of QEJ consist of key documentation of its founding goals and guiding principles, its sources of funding, the involvement of its staff, executive directors, and Board of Directors, its publicity and outreach efforts, and its major projects including the establishment and operation of a shelter for queer people facing homelessness. Together, these files give a detailed look at the ideas, actions, challenges, and successes of this innovative organization devoted to racial, economic, gender, and sexual equality over its dozen years of operation.

Rainbow Seniors of Western New York records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7814
Records of the organization. Including board meeting and committee meeting minutes, bylaws, grants and correspondence.

Ramsdell, Sheldon Herman papers,1955-1996   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7714
Files from Ramsdell's work with Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Plus, correspondence mainly with his parents; photographs from his career.

Rapoport, Paul Foundation records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7803
Records of the Foundation including committee minutes and working files, grant contracts and files, various publications, awards and foundation history materials, and DVDs and VHS tapes.

Reynolds, Alice Kleberg papers, 1979-2004   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7606
Professional and personal subject files pertaining chiefly to the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and its work in AIDS education, advocacy, queer politics, women's rights campaigns, and gay and lesbian social and political issues.

Rhodes, Anne papers, [ca. 1980-1984].   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7628
Reviews of their performances, itineraries, programs, and fliers; also, periodical articles concerning women's art events, in many of which they may have participated.

Ricketts, Wendell papers, circa 1961-2004.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7681
Subject files on lesbian and gay parents, foster parents, and adoptive parents, and on various lesbian and gay family issues and children's and youth issues. Also, files on AIDS, especially in San Francisco in the early 1980s; files on various gay rights issues, including the murder of Harvey Milk; and files from work with "Drummer" magazine, including gay erotic photographs. Includes numerous newspaper clippings.

Rosen, Michael A. Top 40 work,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7847
When Rosen retired from his day job in April 2000, he selected ten images from each of his four books to comprise "Michael Rosen's Top 40." In 2003, he completed three sets of high quality 16x20 silver prints of these images. This is one set. The others are with The Kinsey Institute and Gayle Rubin. Along with the prints, the collection includes Rosen's description of each print and signed copies of books with his art.

Roth, Robert papers, 1973-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7325
The Robert Roth papers include correspondence, periodicals, publications, subject files, an AIDS file, and an international file pertaining chiefly to the international gay rights movement of the 1970s through the 1980s; also, pornography and erotica catalogs and material, and legal files pertaining to Roth's work as an attorney in landlord-tenant cases.

Russian Lesbian, Gay, and AIDS-related Publications and Ephemera, 1992-1997   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7694
Material collected in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, during the 1996-97 academic year, while Lamb worked for Aesop, a Moscow AIDS prevention organiation, running their gay and bisexual men's outreach program. Some material was purchased at bookstores and erotic boutiques, and some was picked up in bars and clubs.

Sanders, Robbie papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7811
Materials from work leading COLAGE at Belle Sherman Elementary School in Ithaca, NY, 1994-2006, while working as a special education teacher there.

Sandstone Retreat records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7834
Records of running the social and business life at Sandstone, especially during its peak years 1970-1972, including original drafts of John Williamson's papers and presentations, a folder of his research and unpublished poems, newsletters and flyers, clippings of articles and publicity about Sandstone, legal documents, about 200 copies of photographs of the center, events, and key Sandstone members dining and doing massage, and approximately 250 pages of correspondence. The correspondence, 1970-1981, is mostly between John and reporters, academics, psychologists, and people the medical community who were interested in learning about Sandstone and people in the Hollywood movie business. Among the correspondence are: Erica Abeel, New York magazine writer; Ruth Beasley, Coordinator of Information Services at Indiana University/Institute for Sex Research, Inc.; Steve and Judy Beltz, Directors of Research at Sandstone; Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, professor at University College in London, and visiting Professor at UC Berkeley ca. 1970; Albert V. Freeman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Institute for the Scientific Study of Human Sexual Potential, Board Member of Sandstone Retreat, Chairperson of the Task Force on Sexual Mores, Committee on Social Issues, California State Psychological Association; and New York writer Gay Talese. It is mostly from within the United States, but includes 1970 correspondence with Ron Laytner, a photojournalist in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Marcelo Correia from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and Robert N. Whitehurst, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, and Sandstone Retreat Board Member.

Scherker, Michael research files, 1989.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7568
Files pertaining to research on the 1969 Stonewall Riot.

Schlegel, Richard L. papers, 1960-1980   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7306
Legal files pertaining to SCHLEGEL VS U.S., 1961-1969; files relating to PACE! A DIGEST OF SEX AND HUMOR, 1970; subject files on sexual topics in general and homosexual topics in particular; and erotic photographs and other materials.

Sex instruction booklets, 1943-circa 1970.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7638
Sex education, family life education, and child development pamphlets, broadsides, comics, and brochures designed for teenagers, pre-teens, and parents; issued by the American Social Hygiene Association, the American Social Health Association, F. E. Compton & Co., the Minnesota Dept. of Health, and others. Topics also include prostitution, sexually transmitted diseases, heterosexual dating, and marriage.

Sexuality in Society Ephemera, 1960-2015   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7323
The collection contains materials relating to sexual politics and the culture of groups defined by sexuality. Includes materials collected on the campus of Cornell University and from a wide range of U.S. and international cities.

Shively, Michael G. papers,1976-1995   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7671
Michael Shively's personal papers, including files from his work as Associate Director of the Center for Homosexual, Education, Evaluation, and Research (CHEER) at San Francisco State University, 1975-1980; his work for Liberation Publications Inc., which published the ADVOCATE, 1980-90; and his work at Damron Publishing since 1990.

Sitzman, Glenn papers, 1940-2010   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4272
Correspondence, clippings, photograph albums, slides, and printed items of Glenn L. Sitzman. Also, political posters from the Philippines, ca. 1974, and currency reform posters from Nigeria, 1965, 1973.

Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues records, 1981-2006   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7580
Announcements and petitions for the creation of a new division within the American Psychological Association, Division 44; the Division's minutes, audiotapes of meetings, photographs, correspondence, bylaws, financial records, and reports. Revisions to the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) are a major area of focus. Includes videos of APA's first Symposium, interviews with Evelyn Hooker, Del Martin, and others, and the 1989 meetings.

Spread Magazine's Publishing archives   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7817
Advertising for events, contributors, and financial support for the magazine, a catalog from an art exhibit, media recognition, signed model releases, proofs, and a piece of hate mail to $pread.

Stonewall 25 celebrations memorabilia, 1994.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7587
Memorabilia, broadsides, photographs, and other ephemeral material from the official and alternative Stonewall 25 marches and associated cultural festival, June 25-26, 1994. Also, the video "Stonewall 25: the future is ours!," a Lefthand production for Stonewall, Inc.

Stuart, Robert collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7831
Collection includes clippings and typescript stories on pornographic gay male themes and the topic of men raping women; flyers and catalogs advertising sadomasochism, nude bondage photographs, and gay pornography; a men's clothing catalog, Ah Men (1970s); a leather catalog, "Leather and Things"; gay erotica and bondage publications; and the Second Tijuana Bible Reader (cataloged separately).

Taormino, Tristan papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7819
Books, articles, and movies Taormino wrote and directed, along with drafts, correspondence about their creation, production books for the movies and couple plays she directed, promotional material, and reviews and media coverage. There are audio and visual recordings of her lectures and media appearances. From her undergraduate years at Wesleyan, there are papers written for classes and her senior thesis, plus ephemera from sexuality activism. Also included is Taormino's collection of ephemera, posters, booklets, zines, magazines, and books written, produced, and created by other people on the topics of sex, sex positivity, gender LGBT/queer issues, BDSM, kink, leather, polyamory and non-monogamy, erotica and erotic photography, and pornography and feminist porn.

Taylor, Valerie papers, 1913-1997   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7627
Personal and professional papers of Valerie Taylor, lesbian author and poet, peace activist, and feminist. Consists mainly of correspondence and published and unpublished literary manuscripts, but also includes materials relating to her personal life, drafts of speeches, book reviews, news stories, photographs, video and audio tapes, and subject files relating to feminist, literary, peace, Quaker, and lesbian activities. Also contains the letters and unpublished literary works of those with whom she corresponded.

TeWinkel, John R. papers, 1926-1991.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 4380
Papers of John R. TeWinkel, a Cornell graduate who lived in China, Morocco, Greece, Nigeria, and the United States.

Thorpe, Rochella oral history project files,1992-1995.   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7607
Tape recordings and transcripts of interviews with lesbians, mostly African-American and white, who lived in Detroit in the post-World War II period, 1947-1975.

Tipton, Billy photographs   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7767
A group of personal and professional photographs of Billy Tipton.

TransPositions: A Conference toward Transgender Studies, Records   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 53-15-3782
Richard M. Juang's planning documents for the TransPositions conference.

Trivia Game: Camp Edition, 1984   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7762
Game with trivia cards and instructions in a cardboard box. Provides cards with information about gay men and lesbians in the categories of nightlife, history, style, entertainment, travel, and the arts, designed to be used as a supplement to any of the standard trivia board games or as a game by itself.

Turner, Guinevere papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7826
Publicity, reviews, and fan responses to the movie "Go Fish", and Turner's sketchbook with art for the movie's credits. Includes press packets for its international releases.

Underground Comix collection,   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 8644
A collection of underground comic books and related printed material, spanning from approximately 1948-1978. The collection contains precursors to the genre, including 174 Tiajuana Bibles, individual zines, along with galley proofs and proof books of issues of Zap and Motor City. The collection also features an extensive representation of some of the genre's most celebrated titles such as Zap, Bijou Funnies, Motor City, Mr. Natural, Yellow Dog and dozens of others. Most of the issues come from the original publisher's file at The Print Mint, a major publisher of underground comics based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's heyday (1968-1974), and the first publisher to focus heavily on the underground comix movement. The collection includes works by Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Joel Beck, Vaughn Bode and many others.

Valentine collection,[ca. 1900-1980]   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7718
A variety of commercially produced postcards and greeting cards for the occassion of Valentine's Day, February 14. Included are clapsaddle postcards (one with a girl making a quilt reads "St. Valentine's Greeting, Woman's sphere is in the home"); three-dimensional German cards from the early 1900's; and valentines from the 1960's through 1980 saved by Gladys Coughlan, a woman in Alberta, Canada.

Voeller, Bruce papers, 1956-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7307
Materials pertaining to sexuality in general and to homosexuality and the gay liberation movement in particular; includes subject files on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Also a typescript of a prose fiction by Voeller, "Murder at McGurk." Files pertaining to the Responsive Gay Collective, the Gay Media Alliance, demonstrations in New York City, the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, the 1979 Gay Pride Celebration in New York City, the Lesbian and Gay Neighbors of Lower Manhattan, and the Chelsea Gay Association.

Watkins, Tommie L., Jr. papers, 2000-2005   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7737
Papers of Rev. Tommie Lee Watkins Jr., documenting his interaction with the U.S. Navy regarding their demand that he repay tuition. During the three-year administrative process, Watkins asserted that the Navy's insistence that he repay tuition when it had excused numerous cases involving white students was influenced by racism. His papers also document his views on communities of faith and the inclusion and affirmation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, those questioning their sexuality, people living with AIDS, and their families. Includes correspondence, essays, clippings, and a videorecording of a service at Miami, Florida's Greater Bethel A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal Church) Church on April 15, 2001, where Watkins worked as program director for HIV/AIDS prevention education.

Weintraub, Harry H. Collection of Gay-Related Photography and Historical Documentation   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7771
Photographs ranging from formal 19th-century portraits to candid 20th-century snapshots and Hollywood stars' studio portraits that provide a wide view of men's bodies and gay men's lives, styles, and activities from the 1850s to 2010, plus associated scrapbooks, greeting cards, programs from events, sound recordings, magazines, comic books, calendars, and ephemera. Exceeding 10,000 items in total, the collection richly documents gay male culture from many angles, featuring 1950s physique and nude photography by important studios and artists, images of drag queens, sexual activity, men together, men in the military, in athletics, and in dance, opera, and theater. Included are significant photographs of men of color and about 100 images of U.S. and European lesbians and women in drag.

Weiss, Burton I. collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7812
Books, manuscripts, reprints of articles, ephemera, graphics, and proofs collected by Burton Weiss, many of them on gay themes. Included are proofs of novels by Gore Vidal, James Leo Herlihy, Gavin Lambert, and others; play scripts; and film screenplays. Books and bound manuscripts (including proofs, scripts, and screenplays) are cataloged individually. Reprints of articles mainly focus on the biology of hermaphroditism, transsexualism, and sex hormones in mammals. Loose manuscripts include notes and draft pages for the revised edition of Kay Boyle's novel Gentlemen, I address you privately (first published in 1933, second edition in 1991); manuscripts of Lyle Glazier's Tragic America (1974) and Person, place, or thing; an unbound copy of Une collection particulière: 250 images de l'homosexuel dans les livres français, 1605-1969, compiled by Andrea Iezzi (privately printed, 2007); a summary of Karen Rotkin's dissertation, The socio-historical construction of female sexuality (1975); prose and poetry manuscripts by Richard George-Murray; a draft of the article "Designing pacifist films" by Paul Goodman (circa 1960); and a transcript of a session from "Revolutionary males," a seminar conducted by Burton Weiss and Charles Haynie at Tolstoy College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, in the fall of 1972.

Whitbeck's, Jamie ImageOut collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7807
Jamie Whitbeck's collection of ImageOut, the Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival related materials including notes, meeting minutes, correspondence, press releases, festival programs, newsletters, fund raising and promotional materials as well as newspapers and news clippings.

Widmer, Candace papers   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7858
Collection contains minutes and agendas of the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace & Justice mailed to Widner from January 1984 through May 1988, logistics for the July 29-August 1, 1983 action and protest, notes and correspondence of the Ithaca Women's Affinity Group, and 2 news stories about the camp (1983, 1984).

Williams, Dell papers, 1922-2008   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7676
Records of Eve's Garden, including mission statement, catalogs and letters sent out to customers, articles about the business, and flyers for sexuality workshops held at Eve's Garden and elsewhere; material from a speaker's bureau Williams organized called New Feminist Talent; and articles and writing on sexuality that Williams collected, including a first edition of Betty Dodson's 1972 "Liberating Masturbation." Also, some of Williams' personal papers, including a 1974 appointment book.

Williams, Michael Joseph notebooks, 1978-1990   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7444
Notebooks kept by Williams from 28 December 1980 to 8 May 1990. Comprised of diary entries, astrological charts, calendars, outgoing and incoming correspondence, postcards, poems, photographs, tickets, programs, and invitations.

Witten, Tarynn papers,1996-1999   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7649
Drafts of Witten's Tao of Gender and her technical reports and publications on transgender violence, health care, and demography, 1996-1999.

Wolfe, Matthew writings, 1970-1988   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7322
Self-Published prose fiction manuscripts.

Womack, H. Lynn papers, 1945-1994   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7441
The H. Lynn Womack papers include business records of the Guild Press, the Guild Book Service, the Grecian Guild, the Potomac News Company, and Village Books and Press, all of an erotic and pornographic nature. Also, correspondence with Richard Schlegel and others, gay periodicals, manuscripts of erotic and pornographic stories, and an extensive collection of pornographic mail order catalogs.

Wood, Ed Jr. collection   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7779
Pulp novels written anonymously and under various pseudonyms of the legendary psycho-sexual author and film-maker, Ed Wood, Jr., collected by pulp scholar Robert Legault (1950 to 2008). In addition, magazines, reference materials, posters and other ephemera; and a DVD about Ed Wood.

Wormley, Edward J and Edward Crouse Papers, 1831-1997 (bulk 1907-1997)   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7684
This collection documents the lives, careers, and personal relationships of Edward J Wormley, noted modernist furniture designer, and Edward Crouse, Wormley's longtime partner and a professor and theater director at the University of Georgia. The collection contains the personal records of the two men, as well as material on Wormley's design-related activities. These include records of his association with Dunbar Furniture Company; client files from his private firm; correspondence and clippings involving colleagues (e.g. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Edgar Kaufman, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, and Jack Lenor Larsen); speeches and articles; and extensive files of clippings on art, design, and architecture. The highlight of the collection is the lengthy correspondence between Wormley and Crouse, the bulk of which dates from 1925 to 1947. The collection also features letters to Crouse and Wormley from relatives and friends, 1920's-1990's; original photographs of the two men and their relatives and friends, 1890s-1990s; photographs taken on the couple's travels; travel journals and scrapbooks; appointment books, diaries, and commonplace books; and ephemera.

Wright, Les K. papers and Bear History Project files, 1959-2010   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7656
Documentation of a gay subculture revolving around burly, hairy men, or "bears." Includes newsletters, flyers, and correspondence from bear clubs, printouts from related electronic discussion lists, and material related to the writing and publication of THE BEAR BOOK, which Wright edited. Also, Wright's journals, personal memorabilia, and correspondence, including extensive correspondence with friend Billie Aul.

Zwickler, Phil papers, circa 1979-1993   [no physdesc:quantity]

Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collection Number: 7564
Documents, videos, and film from Phil Zwickler's work on "Rights and Reactions," as well as several other projects, including some material regarding "Fear of Disclosure," and miscellaneous files and photographs, mostly from 1987 to 1992.


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