3 T-shirts, 1969-70

File — Box: 8

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

From the Collection:

Correspondence, logbooks, financial records and accounts, newsletters, bibliographies, minutes, lists, and broadsides of and pertaining to gay student groups at Cornell University. Includes twenty volumes of business logs, 1978-1993, of Gay People at Cornell and then the Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Coalition.

Photos taken by David Ruether of gay events at Cornell in 1984. They were taken for a story on the student group's 15th anniversary. The story, written by Bill Andriette, ended up not appearing in the alumni magazine.

Dates

1969-70

Creator

From the Collection: Cornell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Coalition (Organization)
From the Collection: Moldenhauer, Jearld. (Person)
From the Collection: Kelly, Janis. (Person)
From the Collection: Mead, Victoria. (Person)
From the Collection: Roth, Robert. (Person)
From the Collection: Student Homophile League of Cornell University (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

7.1 cubic feet. (7.1 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

a) Two male and two female signs interlinked; silk-screened in Anabel Taylor Hall by people from Cornell who marched in New York City's first Gay Pride March in 1970; the T-shirts were dried on the lawn behind Anabel Taylor and got the attention of the "DU boys" (fraternity).b) NYSCGO (New York State Council of Gay Organizations) shirt was screened in Anabel Taylor for the second New York City Gay Pride March in 1971; Cornell Student Homophile League was involved in an attempt to create a state organization.c) "Buck Anita" shirts, referring to Anita Bryant, were sold by Cornell marchers at the June 1970 New York City Gay Pride March to pay for the cost of transportation to the march.