{"value"=>"<p>This series contains records for GMAD's programmatic activities including annual programs, Friday Night Forums, co-sponsored events, workshops, and miscellaneous programs in which GMAD may have participated. The records here represent a sampling of programs and events held during 1986 - 1998, the totality of which provides valuable insight into the various issues engaging black gay men, including relationships, HIV/AIDS, literature, and the arts. There are four subseries in this series: Newsletters; Committees; Programs; and Oral History Project.</p> <p>The newsletters subseries provides the most comprehensive and detailed description of GMAD's activities found in the collection. The organization's newsletter (initially titled the <span class=\"title\">Calendar</span>, later renamed <span class=\"title\">Angel Times</span> and <span class=\"title\">GMAD Newsletter</span>, respectively) records the numerous activities and the development of the organization in the 1980s and early 1990s. There are gaps in publication, and it is unclear whether issues were not produced for a particular month or are simply missing. Additionally, there are production files, which include drafts, letters, clippings, calls for submission, memoranda, flyers, and other information for inclusion in the newsletters produced in 1995 and 1996.</p> <p>The Committees subseries represents a fraction of the various committees that came into being from the time of GMAD's inception. Judging from the scarcity of materials found here, compared with the information in the newsletters about committees that were formed, it is clear that several committees' files are missing. Arranged alphabetically by committee, this subseries contains agendas, flyers, job announcements, letters, reports, questionnaires, sign-up sheets, and notes related to each committee's objectives. Committees represented here include the Action Committee; \"Harambee\" Committee; Program Advisory Committee; Program Development Committee; Programming and Planning Committee; Steering Committee; and Whole Support Group Committee.</p> <p>The Programs subseries contains files for a number of events, one-time and ongoing, that GMAD has conducted over the course of its existence. Arranged alphabetically, there is information about GMAD's tenth anniversary, annual fashion show, Friday Night Forums, and Kwanzaa celebrations.</p> <p>There are folders concerning fund raising events including a benefit for <span class=\"title\">Black Is...Black Ain't</span>, the late Marlon Riggs's last documentary, and the African-American Caribbean MSM Conference, both in 1995. Several files for the \"Lifestyles Genesis Learning Series Program,\" a program that was funded by the Black Leadership Conference on AIDS, and the video, <span class=\"title\">Party</span>, can also be found here.</p> <p>In 1993, GMAD, in collaboration with AIDSFILMS, produced <span class=\"title\">Party</span>, 1991 - 1995, a professional video for safe sex educators and community organizations to use as a guide in HIV prevention outreach. The files include contracts, correspondence, crew and funding information, mailing lists, production materials, steering committee minutes, submitted scripts, and notes. Considered the first safer sex videotape produced by black gay men for black gay men, <span class=\"title\">Party</span> was written by Washington, DC, playwright Alan Sharpe and directed by Charles Sessoms. The half-hour video was designed to stimulate group discussion and encourage values classification and peer support among black men around a range of HIV and STD risk reduction issues.</p> <p>The Oral History Project was initiated to coincide with the formal depositing of the organization's archival records at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. It was funded by the Borough of Manhattan President's Office for New York City (fiscal year 2000/2001.) The purpose of the project was to provide insight into GMAD's genesis by interviewing early members of the organization, and persons associated with Charles Angel, in order to augment the history found in the records. The interviews took place in late 2000 and ended in July 2001. This subseries includes transcriptions of the following interviews: George Bellinger, Jr., Kevin Coleman, Bonnie Harrison, Jeff Haskins, Kevin McGruder, Philip Reed, Colin Robinson, Harold Robinson, Kenneth Tolbert, Derwin Keith Vega, and C. Ralph Wilson.</p>"}