Proposed By-Laws, 1974

Correspondence, financial and administrative records, field and 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 1973.

Files from Executive Directors Bruce Voeller, Jeff Levi, Lucia Valeska, C. F. Brydon, Virginia Appuzo, Urvashi Vaid, Melinda Paras and Kerry Lobel; correspondence with Virginia Appuzo; and correspondence, phone logs, financial reports, and summaries of staff work for the Executive Board. Also, support documentation for a formal presentation to the United States Civil Rights Commission on discrimination against lesbians and gay men.

Includes records of the associated organization, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Gay and Lesbian Policy Institute, formed in 1991, as a non-profit organization to conduct educational and organizing programs.

Subject files pertaining to legal questions, family issues, the media, anti-gay discrimination, violence against gay men and lesbians, and other topics. Key projects and subjects include the California and Dade County, Florida civil rights battles of the late 1970s, efforts to defeat anti-gay referendums in Oregon and Colorado in 1992, the Anti-Violence Project directed by Kevin Thomas Berrill from the project's beginnings in 1982 until 1994, the campus project, and the AIDS epidemic. An entire subseries of subject files contains materials from more than one hundred regional lesbian and gay organizations across the United States. Also, videotapes of eleven workshops on sodomy legislation organized by Sue Hyde, director of the NGLTF Privacy Project, which include several presentations by the ACLU's Nan Hunter and Arthur C. Warner (ca. late 1980s).

Includes staff reports (1989-1991) of Vaid and Levi; strategic plan, July 1991; 122 audiocassettes from NGLTF Policy Institute 5th Annual National Conference for Gay and Lesbian Organizing and Skillbuilding, Nov. 13-15 1992 in Los Angeles; file of Peri Jude Radecic, Executive Director, pertaining chiefly to 1988 Lobby Effort, the Civil Rights Act of 1990, and other legislative activities; phone logs of Ivy Young; organizational charts, 1993-94; files on civil rights organizing, including organizations supporting lesbian/gay/bisexual civil rights; and annual reports.

Also, programs and planning documents for NGLTF's Creating Change Conferences, starting with its first in 1988, and including files, 1997-2995, from the conference director Sue Hyde. Current files go through 2005.

Also includes a series of photographs of staff members and persons involved with projects and committees of the Task Force and various Task Force events and participation in marches and rallies.

175 printed items concerning AIDS, the legislation, its prevention, treatment and all social aspects of the disease, both in the United States and the world. Covering the period from 1981 to 2000.

Material received after and not included in the microfilming project include 66 boxes transferred when the office moved in September 2002. Most are additions to existing files: budget/finance, publicity and press releases, Anti-Violence Project, Campus Project, Field files, Fight the Right Project, Lesbian Health Information Project, Media files, and additional videos. In addition, there are files on the Out and Equal Workplace Conference, the President Clinton transition and political parties and elections, and public information files.

In addition, all 2,645 of the anonymous surveys returned for NGLTF's nationwide Black Pride Survey in 2000. This represented the first attempt to collect such a wide range of data on Black people in the U.S. who have same-sex sexual relationships, whether they identify as bisexual, lesbian, gay, or transgender or not. It resulted in the 2002 publication "Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud."

Also, programs and planning documents for NGLTF's Creating Change Conferences, starting with its first in 1988. Current files go through 1997. And files from the Shower of Stoles Project and Witness Our Welcome (WOW), 1997-2006, projects that relate to LGBT people and religion.

298 negatives of the Primary Source Microfilm set; 106 positives and 106 negatives of materials in the collection at the time but not included in the PSM product, mostly clippings.