Found 6 collections related to International Gay Information Center

Correspondence between activist Scott Edwards and various American politicians regarding gay rights issues; correspondence regarding the International Gay Archive (IGA), a forerunner of the International Gay Information Center; and photographs of the Gay Atheists League marching in Washington, DC (1979). less

The International Gay Information Center (IGIC), founded in 1979 as the International Gay History Archive, had a mission to document the entire history of gay culture. Initially a committee of the Gay Activists Alliance, the IGIC collected books, periodicals, pamphlets, newsletters, press releases, and ephemera related in any way to gay rights, history, or culture. The IGIC records, spanning 1974-1989 (bulk dates 1979-1983), include correspondence, minutes, financial and office material, checklists of periodicals, and card files enumerating the published books collected by the IGIC. less

The collection documents the gay liberation movement in New York City and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Included are records of the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay Alliance of Brooklyn, Gay Switchboard of New York, the Mattachine Society Inc. of New York, and records of miscellaneous organizations including Christopher Street That New Magazine, Inc., and the periodicals Gaysweek, and New York Native. Personal papers include papers of Lockett Ford Ballard, Jr., Arthur Bell, Billy Wilder Blackwell, Perry Brass, Robert Clement, Don Jackson, Walter Porczak, and Sam Staggs. There are also miscellaneous records of IGIC, including correspondence, minutes, memoranda, photographs of gay rights demonstrations, scripts of plays by gay writers, and printed ephemera issued by gay, lesbian and AIDS organizations in the United States. less

These materials consist of audio tapes, videotapes and films that were culled from the organizational records and personal papers collected by the International Gay Information Center. They include audio recordings of interviews, meetings, lectures, radio and television shows, and live performances. There are also videotapes from the Open Channel cable show and several gay erotic films. less