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American Civil Liberties Union, Greater Philadelphia Branch book production files for "Lesbians and Gay Men: The Law in Pennsylvania"
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Held at: John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center [Contact Us]1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
"Founded in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the nation's foremost guardian of liberty. [It is] a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending and protecting our individual rights and personal freedoms.
"Through advocacy, education and litigation, [its] attorneys, advocates and volunteers work to preserve and promote civil liberties including the freedom of speech, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, and equal treatment under the law. [The ACLU stands] in defense of the rights of women and minorities, workers, students, immigrants, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and others who have seen bias and bigotry threaten the rights afforded to all of us in this country by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights." ("About Us")
"The ACLU of Pennsylvania actively supports the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights, participating in a broad range of legal, legislative, and public education activities. [Its] legal clients have included numerous high school students working to form Gay-Straight Alliances at their schools, while [its] legislative department works to secure passage of statewide employment protections, anti-bullying statutes, and other beneficial legislation while opposing measures like the proposed anti-marriage amendment. The Greater Philadelphia Chapter serves Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties." ("LGBT Rights")
Bibliography:
Quoted text from: American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. "About the ACLU" and "LGBT Rights." Accessed June 29, 2012. http://www.aclupa.org/home/abouttheaclu/ and http://staging.aclupa.org/issues/lgbtrights/.
This collection consists of chapter drafts and correspondence with contributors, grant applications and fundraising materials, budgets and financial records, and various other papers relating to the writing and publication of Lesbians and Gay Men: The Law in Pennsylvania, A Handbook.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of a pilot project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact John J. Wilcox Jr. LGBT Archives of Philadelphia directly for more information.
Organization
- American Civil Liberties Union.
- American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Greater Philadelphia Branch.
Subject
- Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania
- Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania
- Lesbians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania
- Sex and law -- Pennsylvania
Place
- Publisher
- John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Access Restrictions
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