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Found 11 collections related to Gay activists -- New York (State) -- New York
Jacobowitz, Ronald I., 1959-1995
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 24230
.42 linear feet (1 box)
Ronald I. Jacobowitz was a gay activist and community organizer in New York City. He cofounded Gay Men of the Bronx and Bronx Lesbians and Gay Men United for Political Action and organized the We Are Everywhere! conference. His papers contain...
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Paolella, Edward C.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18795
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Correspondence with Brooklyn College professor Edward Paolella regarding the Gay Teachers Association.
Testing the Limits (Firm)
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3614
14 linear feet (22 boxes); 13 audio files, 1824 video files, 132 vhs tapes
Testing the Limits was a video collective formed in New York in 1987 to document AIDS activism. The collective produced a short work, Testing the Limits : NYC, in 1987 and a feature-length documentary Voices from the Front in 1991. The...
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Saint, Assotto, 1957-1994
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 556
8.83 linear feet (17 boxes)
Born Yves Francois Lubin in Haiti in 1957, Assotto Saint was a New York-based gay activist, poet, and performance artist who edited two anthologies of black gay poets in the early 1990s. He founded a publishing house, Galiens Press, which...
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Wicker, Randy
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3323
.8 linear feet (2 boxes)
Randy Wicker was a leader of the homophile movement in New York in the 1960's and a gay rights activist during the early days of the gay liberation movement. As public relations director of the Homosexual League of New York (an organizational...
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Voelcker, John
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4816
2.1 linear feet (5 boxes)
John Voelcker is an automotive journalist and freelance writer. He was formerly a writer for the magazine OutWeek and a member of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization which protested the Ancient Order of Hiberians'...
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Davis, Tony
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 5987
13 linear feet (29 boxes)
The Tony Davis ACT UP records contain files collected and maintained by Tony Davis, an active member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) from 1989 to 1996. Davis had a leading role in ACT UP's Treatment and Data Committee, attended...
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Jacobowitz, Ronald I.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 6120
.21 linear feet (1 box)
The 1992 We Are Everywhere! conference aimed to organize a grassroots network for New York City's LGBT community, especially in the outer boroughs. Conference records include correspondence, ephemera, contact information for various LGBT groups...
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Getso, Robert, 1962-2014
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18095
.42 linear feet (1 box); 1 dvd
The Robert Getso ACT UP collection documents HIV/AIDS activism undertaken by members of ACT UP and the Costas.
Wentzy, James
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 22286
9.09 linear feet (21 boxes, 4 tubes), 437 video files
The James Wentzy papers date from 1987 to 2008 (bulk dates 1990s), and reflect the continuing work of AIDS activist James Wentzy to document ACT UP's advocacy on behalf of those individuals with HIV/AIDS through correspondence, clippings, flyers,...
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ACT UP New York (Organization)
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 10
97.4 linear feet (234 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 4 tubes, 1 oversize item)
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded in March 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center in New York City's Greenwich Village as an organization devoted to direct action (demonstrations and civil disobedience) to call the...
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