COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records of the landmark cases in which Mr. Kimball represented various clients and other files and ephemera about Kimball.
Dates
- circa 1973-2003.
Creator
- Kimball, Harris L. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Harris L. Kimball was the first openly gay attorney in the US. In 1955, while working as a civil rights lawyer in Florida, he was arrested for "lewd and lascivious conduct" with another man. He was disbarred on September 6, 1957. On July 3, 1973, the New York Court of Appeals found Kimball to be of good character and qualified to practice law in New York State. In "Sexuality and the Law: An Encyclopedia of Major Legal Cases" (Garland, 1993), Arthur S. Leonard highlights the significant role this decision by the NY Court of Appeals played "in the gradual recognition that lesbian and gay people were entitled to full citizenship rights in a diverse society."
Extent
4 cubic feet. (4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Records of the landmark cases in which Mr. Kimball represented various clients and other files and ephemera about Kimball.
Physical Description
Legal Documents, Correspondence, Photocopies.
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:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- October 2018
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, October 2018
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, January 2018
NOTES
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- October 2018
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu