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Lg Ms 013 Equalitymaine Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France
Lg Ms 013 Equalitymaine Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France
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Description:
The Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance (MLGPA) was formed in 1984 to advocate for LGBT issues and to educate the public, media, and politicians about them. Now known as EqualityMaine, over the last twenty-five years, the organization has worked to secure civil rights legislation, pass hate crimes protection laws, promote workplace equality and ensure responsible HIV/AIDS policies. The Archives contains organizational records of MLGPA and EqualityMaine, and other materials.
Date Range:
1984-2009
Size of Collection:
14.5 ft.
Lg Ms 039 Maine Frontrunners Archives Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas
Lg Ms 039 Maine Frontrunners Archives Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas
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Maine Frontrunners was founded April Fool’s Day, 1995, inspired by the enthusiastic leadership of the legendary runner John Bean. The group has run Saturday mornings since then, through all kinds of weather. The Maine group is part of International Front Runners, an affiliation of GLBT running/walking clubs that have organized in many of the larger cities around the world. Inspired by Patricia Nell Warren's novel The Front Runner, the first Front Runner club began in San Francisco in 1974, and other FR clubs quickly began forming in the United States and then in Canada and abroad.
Date Range:
1994-2003 …
Lg Ms 022 Larry Bliss Collection Finding Aid, Maeve Wachowicz, Elizabeth Sistare
Lg Ms 022 Larry Bliss Collection Finding Aid, Maeve Wachowicz, Elizabeth Sistare
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Lawrence (Larry) Bliss was born and raised in California, lived in Maine for twenty years, and returned to California in 2011. He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in History and Political Science and a Master's Degree in Urban Public Administration all from the University of California. He has worked as a middle school and high school teacher and coach and as Director of Career Services and Professional Life Development at the University of Southern Maine. He was elected to the Maine Senate in 2008, representing the 7th district, which includes his hometown of South Portland, as well as Cape Elizabeth and …
Lg Ms 018 Maine Won’T Discriminate Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France
Lg Ms 018 Maine Won’T Discriminate Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France
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Maine Won't Discriminate (MWD) was an organization created to work toward passing LGBT civil rights legislation in Maine and to advocate against/for citizens referenda that would have overturned/sustained such legislation. The Archives contains organizational records as well as print and audiovisual material created and used by the organization. The majority of the materials relate to MWD’s ultimately successful efforts to oppose referendum Question 1 in 2005, which read: “Do you want to reject the new law that would protect people from discrimination in employment, housing, education, public accommodations and credit based on their sexual orientation?” The materials include polling …
Equality News (Summer 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Summer 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Spring 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Spring 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Winter 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Winter 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Autumn 2007), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Autumn 2007), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Spring 2007), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Spring 2007), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Winter 2007), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Winter 2007), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Autumn 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Autumn 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Summer 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Summer 2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Fall 2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality News (Fall 2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Summer 2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality News (Summer 2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Spring 2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality News (Spring 2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Winter 2005-2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Winter 2005-2006), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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The Ties That Bind: Experiences Of Family In Maine, 1900-Present, Univeristy Of Southern Maine, Susie Bock, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Abraham J. Peck, Howard M. Solomon
The Ties That Bind: Experiences Of Family In Maine, 1900-Present, Univeristy Of Southern Maine, Susie Bock, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Abraham J. Peck, Howard M. Solomon
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The Ties That Bind opens a window to meaning in the material culture of Mainers outside the dominant culture. Focusing on family, the three Center scholars whose work is catalogued here provide a lens that allows us to peer through that window into something of the complex nature of difference. The three scholars reveal otherwise anonymous Maine people, whose very anonymity came from the difference that was culturally constructed to segregate them from the dominant culture. Family, which reflects something common to every different culture, works here to highlight unity in human diversity. In that way, family also provides a …
Equality News (Fall 2004), Maggie Allen
Equality News (Fall 2004), Maggie Allen
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Summer 2004), Maggie Allen
Equality News (Summer 2004), Maggie Allen
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Mlgpa News (Spring 2004), Maggie Allen
Equality News (Winter 2004-2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality News (Winter 2004-2005), Rodney Mondor
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Mlgpa News (Fall 2003), Maggie Allen
Mlgpa News (Spring 2003), Maggie Allen
Mlgpa News (Winter 2003), Maggie Allen
Mlgpa News (Fall 2002), Maggie Allen
Mlgpa News (Spring 2002), Mark Sullivan
Mlgpa News (February 2002), Mark Sullivan
Mlgpa News (February 2002), Mark Sullivan
MLGPA news (1996-2004)
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Mlgpa News (Winter 2002), Maggie Allen
Mlgpa News (December 2001), Mark Sullivan
Mlgpa News (December 2001), Mark Sullivan
MLGPA news (1996-2004)
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Mlgpa News (September 2001), David Garrity
Mlgpa News (September 2001), David Garrity
MLGPA news (1996-2004)
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