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Lg Ms 052 Sage Hylton (-Lemons) Papers, K A. Perry
Lg Ms 052 Sage Hylton (-Lemons) Papers, K A. Perry
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Sage Hylton-Lemons grew up in Portland, Maine. In high school, Hylton-Lemons found sanctuary as a gay teenager in the youthdriven group Outright, where his involvement progressed from attending weekly meetings to being a member of the Board, then President of the Board. As an Outright member and activist, Hylton-Lemons spoke at schools and events, became a peer-advisor, and helped other communities organize their own Outrights. He was instrumental in conceiving and organizing Outright's first annual prom in 1998. He was profoundly influenced by Christian T. Chenard, a nurse practitioner for the City of Portland Public Health Positive Healthcare Program. …
Lg Ms 079 Steven G. Bull Papers, Jill Piekut Roy, Jeremy Rundstrom
Lg Ms 079 Steven G. Bull Papers, Jill Piekut Roy, Jeremy Rundstrom
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Papers include correspondence, photographs, publications, and ephemera documenting the beginning of the gay liberation movement in Maine and Steve Bull's participation in the movement both in Maine and nationally, especially through his involvement with the founding of the Wilde-Stein Club at University of Maine Orono in 1973 and his chairmanship of the first Maine Gay Symposium in 1974. Letters received by Bull and his friends, both personally and as Wilde-Stein Club officials, are evidence of the attitudes of both supporters of gay liberation and its opponents in the 1970s. Bull's research papers document the University of Maine's reaction to …
Lg Ms 160 Dale Mccormick Gay Side Story Interview, Jill Piekut Roy
Lg Ms 160 Dale Mccormick Gay Side Story Interview, Jill Piekut Roy
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Collection includes two copies of an oral history interview (one edited) and an automatically generated transcript.
In the edited version of the interview, Dale McCormick recalls her role as producer of "Gay Side Story," an adaptation of the musical West Side Story, with Diane Elze, Miles J. Rightmire, Cheryl Ring, and others. The play was performed for two nights in Luther Bonney Hall at University of Southern Maine during the 10th Maine Lesbian & Gaymen's Symposium in May 1983. McCormick discusses her work on the writing team, the set design, and the positive reception of the production during a …