Gay people's writings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Brian R. McNaught papers
The Brian R. McNaught collection documents McNaught's career as a sexuality activist, a church activist, writer, and sensitivity trainer. Topics include the controversy of gays in the Catholic Church, AIDS training and awareness, homophobia in the workplace, and gay rights. McNaught's works, books and videos include A Disturbed Peace, On Being Gay, Gay Issues in the Workplace, Growing Up Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia in the Workplace, and Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do?.
Carl Morse essay and poems
Chasen Gaver papers
The papers of the "performance poet" Chasen Gaver include personal papers as well as photographs, videotapes and audiotapes; also press materials and articles about him and his work, and announcements of his performances. Also, family photographs and correspondence, personal correspondence, a diary called "Fever Journal," notebooks meticulously charting Gaver's health, and a shadowbox puppet theater used for recitations of Gaver's poem "The Ugly Side of Pretty."
Ithaca Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Task Force records
Correspondence, press releases, original layouts, and other working files from the publication of "OUTLINES: A Newsletter for Ithaca's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community," from the first issue, Dec. 1984 to #23, April/May 1989, and from 1993-1998. Plus, the Ithaca Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Task Force's publication of local businesses and organizations and mailings sent to members, 1991-2005 (incomplete). One issue of the Big Red Rag.
James Douglas Merritt papers
Larry Bush papers
The collection consists of Bush's personal papers and collected news articles. Subjects include AIDS, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the National Gay Task Force, and the legislative and legal aspects of gay rights.
Norman Shapiro commentary and pornographic artwork
Robert J. Leach papers
The collection documents Leach's determination and expression of his sexual identity, his life as a closeted gay, his coming out, and his emotional life as a gay American abroad and on Nantucket Island, as well as the details of his family life, friendships, and Leach family genealogy. The collection also includes correspondence from Robert Leach describing his donations, providing context for his collection at Cornell.