Paula L. Ettelbrick papers

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Court orders and files relating to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's pioneering work on second parent adoption, a legal principle that makes it possible for the same sex partner of a parent to become the legal second parent. Included are files on: second parent adoption, other adoption cases, co-parenting cases, and domestic partners. Also, files on other lesbian and gay rights issues that Ettelbrick focused on while working with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, including marital status discrimination, health, sodomy laws, violence, and a federal civil rights law.

Dates

1986-1993.

Creator

Ettelbrick, Paula L. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Ettelbrick served as staff attorney and then legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1986-1993. She went on to leadership positions at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the Stonewall Community Foundation. She was born October 2, 1955 and died October 7, 2011.

Extent

5.6 cubic feet. (5.6 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

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.

RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.

SEPARATED MATERIAL

The following periodicals have been removed from the collection and catalogued individually:

Agenda. New York: 1998: Spring, Summer, Fall/Winter (2).

Anti-Sexism Newsletter. 1989:v.4no.l. 1990:v.4,no.4.

Center Voice. 1988: v.4,no. 1-2, 4.

Christopher Street. 1988:v.10 no. 12.

Edge Newsletter: Education in a Disabled Gay Environment. 1988:v.2no. 1.

Empire State Pride Agenda Quarterly Update. 1990: December. 1991: Winter.

EqualTimes. 1988:v.lno.4-5. 1989:v.l no.6, 11.

FAIRPAC Quarterly Update. 1988: Winter. 1989: Spring. 1990: Fall-Spring; special election issue: Oct. 1990.

GFN (Gay Friends and Neighbors). 1988:v.6 no.2-5.

GLIDNews. 1990: February.

ILGA Bulletin. 1991: no. 1-2,4-5. 1992:no.4.

Lesbian Her story Archives Newsletter 10. 1988: February.

Lovetann. 1993: January.

Momentum. 1988: Winter. 1990: Winter.

Newsweek. 1990: v. 115 no. 11.

NWSActuib, 1989:v.2,no.4.

Outweek. 1989:no. 19, 20, 22, 27. 1990:no. 28, 37, 58-9, 68, 71-3, 76.

ParleePlus. 1990:v.15 no.8, 10.

Pride Agenda Members Update. 1993: Spring. 1995: Summer.

Pride Guide New York, 1983, 1988-90.

Research Report. 1990: v.9no.2.

Sappho's Isle. 1990:v.3no.2.

Stop the Violence. 1992:no.8

Visibilities. 1989:v.l no.2

Women 's Research Network News. 1989: v.2no. 1.

Working It Out. 1992: v. 1 ,no.2.

Physical Description

Manuscripts, subject files.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Brenda Marston
Date completed:: 2001
EAD encoding:: Andrea HektorPeter Martinez, Dec. 2003Lara Blas and Sara McDermott, June 2010
Date modified:: RMC staff, January 2014