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Lg Ms 027 Diane Elze Papers Finding Aid, Elizabeth Sistare, Nicholas Martin
Lg Ms 027 Diane Elze Papers Finding Aid, Elizabeth Sistare, Nicholas Martin
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Description:
A 1978 graduate of the University of Maine, Orono, Diane Elze began her volunteer career working for the YWCA Fair Harbor Shelter in Portland, Maine. She was an activist in the LGBT community in the Portland area in the 1980s and 1990s. Among other activities, she was a founding member of the Maine Lesbian Gay Political Alliance, worked on the AIDS Project, and founded the LGBT youth group, Outright. She also edited the newsletter Moving, The Newspaper of the Maine Association of Handicapped Persons and founded the statewide gay and lesbian newspaper, Our Paper. Elze earned a Master’s Degree …
Lg Ms 016 Transsupport Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France
Lg Ms 016 Transsupport Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France
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Transsupport is a non-profit, educational, non-sexual peer support group for Cross-dressers, Transsexuals, their families, friends and significant others. The Archives contains organizational papers and newsletters from between 1994 and 1998, plus one issue of vol. 1 of the newsletter, dated 1989.
Date Range:
1989, 1994-1998
Size of Collection:
0.5 ft.
Lg Ms 003 Jean Stickney Posters Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Lg Ms 003 Jean Stickney Posters Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Stickney was an agent for entertainers. This is a collection of colored posters advertising events of interest to the Gay and Lesbian communities. Many of these events were organized by Wild Iris Productions, Jean Stickney’s business, and held in the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine.
Date Range:
1980s-1990s
Size of Collection:
2 ft.