Gay rights
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Committee the Civil Rights of Homosexuals Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-725
Overview
In 1972, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting appointed a Committee on Homosexuality under the Meeting for Social Concerns to work for the assurance of civil rights for homosexuals. In December of 1975, after the Meeting for Social Concerns was laid down and Yearly Meeting restructured, it was decided that there should be a subcommittee of the Family Relations Committee on homosexuality and a Committee for the Civil Rights of Homosexuals under the Testimonies/Concerns section of Yearly Meeting; the...
Dates:
1975-1987
Pennsylvania National Organization for Women (PA NOW) papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M66
Overview
The Pennsylvania National Organization for Women (PA NOW) papers occupy fourteen boxes and contain the feminist organization’s records about their activities and meetings as well as materials about women’s issues such as reproductive rights; violence against women; gender, economic, and constitutional equality; and civil rights. The records date from 1970 to 2007 and include newspaper clippings, articles, meeting notes, office files, activism realia, and lobbying records, among other...
Dates:
1970 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1996
