Paul Rapoport Foundation records

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Abstract

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.

Dates

circa 1987-2014.

Creator

Paul Rapoport Foundation (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Paul Rapoport (1940-1987) helped to found the New York LGBT Community Center and also Gay Men's Health Crisis, the first community-based AIDS organization in the United States. He also helped to raise funds for SAGE, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and other community organizations in New York City. He died from AIDS-related causes in 1987.

The Paul Rapoport Foundation was created following Paul Rapoport's death in 1987. It awards grants to support LGBT and related community initiatives and organizations. In the face of financial straits brought on by the recession of 2008, the Foundation's leaders decided to spend down the organization's funds in a series of large, multi-year grants through 2014. The Foundation closed in 2015.

Extent

26.5 cubic feet. (26.5 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

SERIES LIST

Series I. History, Awards, Policies, and Procedure Files

Series II. Grant Contracts

Series III. Grant Files

Series IV. Publications

Series V. DVD's and VHS

Separated Materials

Books Catalogued Separately

Eric Brandt. Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality. 1999
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. CLAGS Directory of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 1994/1995
Margaret Cruikshank. Lesbian Studies: Present and Future. 1982
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Center for Women's Global Leadership. Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing. 2000
Karen Hein, M.D. and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. AIDS: Trading Fears for Facts: A Guide for Teens. 1989
Gregory L. Colvin. Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do it Right. 1993
The Brown Boi Project. Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois. 2011
el Comité Americano de Servicio de los Amigos Puentes de Respeto: Creación de Apoyo para la Juventud Lesbiana y Homosexual 1992
Youth Communication (edited by Al Desetta). The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System 1996
Edited by Martin Duberman. A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader 1996
Edited by Martin Duberman .Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures: A Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Book 1997
Ford Foundation Sexuality and Social Change: Making the Connection: Strategies for Action and Investment 2005
Youth Communication (edited by Al Desetta) Out With It: Gay and Straight Teens Write About Homosexualty 2008
Richard Plant. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals 1986
Masha Gessen. The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men in the Russian Federation: An International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Report 1994
Human Rights Watch. Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools 2001
Other Countries Other Countries: Black Gay Voices 1988
Youth Communication (edited by Andrea Estepa and Philip Kay). Starting with "I": Personal Essays by Teenagers 1997
Edited by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A.H. McNaron. The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century 1996
John W. Mason for the Council on Foundations, The Foundation Center Foundation Trusteeship: Service in the Public Interest 1989
Edited by Kathleen DeBold, Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. Out for Office: Campaigning in the Gay Nineties 1994
The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts 1987-2007. includes: 20-Year Report 1987-2007, 20-Year Report 1987-2007 Grants and Exhibitions, 20-Year Report 1987-2007

Physical Description

Institutional records

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: November 2015
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, November 2015
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, November 2018