
Browse Collections (47 total)
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Broadcasted Recordings of Creator Panels, with other Feminist and Lesbian Programming
This series contains recordings of panels and workshops featuring feminist writers and artists that were broadcasted via the radio, as well as…
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On-Air Interviews and Readings featuring Writers and Artists
This series includes recordings of various women's public radio programs that interviewed or otherwise featured feminist and lesbian authors, poets,…
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Karen Thompson Interviews, c. 1988-1989
5-part series interviewing Karen Thompson regarding her legal struggles to secure guardianship of her comatose partner, Sharon Kowalski. (Note: Tape 1…
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Moving Image Materials
This collection holds videos that do not fall under specific collections in the digital archive. These include performance, documentaries, and…
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Assorted Audio Materials, c. 1970s
Included in this collection are clips from radio shows including South Carolina Educational Radio Network, Radio Free People, KCRW-FM, and RCC. There…
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History of New York Lesbian Style Oral History Project, 2007
The History of New York Lesbian Style collection is an oral history project created by Alaina Zulli in 2007. Zulli was a NYU graduate student studying…
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Lambda Legal Forum, 1982
Lambda Legal was established on October 18, 1973 and is the oldest and largest organization dedicated to litigating gay rights claims. Lambda has won…
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L.U.S.T. Conference, 1992
The L.U.S.T (Lesbians Undoing Sexual Taboos) conference was held at the Greenberg Lounge of New York University’s School of Law on November 7, 1992.…
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Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz 1984-2022 [bulk 2000-2002]
This collection includes interviews, panel appearances, and talks given by Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz. Berman (b. 1934) and Kurtz (1936-2018) were…
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Tiny Davis Interview, 1988
Ernestine "Tiny" Davis was a prolific Black lesbian jazz trumpeter and vocalist. Born in 1909 in Memphis, Tennessee, she was the youngest of seven…
Contributors: Lisa Cowan
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Neighborhood Voices, 1985
Neighborhood Voices was a series produced by WNYC-TV in 1985 and consisted of interviews with long-term residents of New York City.
Contributors: WNYC, Audre Lourde, Sonny Wainwright, Irving Cooperberg
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Irving Cooperberg, 1985
Irving Cooperberg (1932-1997) was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. After attending a service at the Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a gay and lesbian…
Contributors: WNYC, Irving Cooperberg
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Sonny Wainwright, 1985
Sonny Wainwright (1930-1985) was a writer, educator, and lesbian and women’s rights activist involved in the Feminist Writers’ Guild and Gay…
Contributors: WNYC, Sonny Wainright
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Audre Lorde, 1985
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was an acclaimed Carribean-American poet, activist, and theorist who was highly influential in matters both of civil rights…
Contributors: WNYC, Audre Lorde
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Alix Dobkin video recordings, 1976
Alix Dobkin was a celebrated folk musician, composer and feminist activist involved in the women’s liberation movement of the early 1970s. After the…
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Women's Press Collective audio recordings, circa 1970s
The Women’s Press Collective (WPC) was established in 1969 in Oakland, CA It emerged from the Gay Women’s Liberation Group (GWLG), the first…
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Judy Grahn audio recordings, circa 1970s
Judy Grahn is a poet, activist, and scholar who has published 14 books to date and is widely recognized for writing that engages with queer, feminist…
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Sidney Abbott video recordings, 1995
Sidney Abbott was a lesbian, feminist author and activist. She was a member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the National Organization for Women…
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Daughters of Bilitis and The Ladder Workshop, circa 1970s
This collection consists of audio recordings of a presentation on lesbian history called “What Happened After We Came Out of Our Closets, or, Which…
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Joan Nestle audio recordings, 1976-1989
Joan Nestle (born May 12, 1940) is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. This collection contains…
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Martha Shelley Audio Recordings, 1972-2020 [bulk 1972-1978]
Martha Shelley (1943 - Present) is best known for her involvement in lesbian feminist activism. After college, Shelley joined the Daughters of Bilitis…
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Dyke TV television program components, 1993-1998
Dyke TV was a groundbreaking public access program founded in 1993 by Mary Patierno, Ana Marie Simo and Linda Chapman. An offshoot of the Lesbian…
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Unreleased Documentary, 1988
The Daughters of Bilitis is a previously unreleased documentary created in 1988 by Manuela Soares, Sara Yager and Morgan Gwenwald, with support from…
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DOB Atkinson Tapes
This series of audio recordings is from a workshop led by Ti Grace Atkinson at the New York chapter of the DOB. The ten tapes covered several…
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Related Video Recordings, 1989-1995
This collection includes videos created during the course of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, including the 20th Anniversary of the Boston…
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Audio Recordings, 1971-1988
This assortment of digitized tapes from the DOB Video Project includes interviews, musical and comedy performances, and reminiscences from a memorial…
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Voices of the LHA: Statement of Purpose and Related Recordings
Voices of LHA is an audio recording that documents the history and legacy of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Members of LHA recite the LHA Statement of…
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: Related Audio Recordings, 1977-1990
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York. Ranging…
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Barbara Grier Interview, 1987
Barbara Grier was born on November 4, 1933 in Cincinnati, OH. Her affiliation with the Daughters of Bilitis began in 1957, when she started to…
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Stella Rush & Helen Sandoz Interview, 1987
Stella RushStella Rush was born on April 30, 1925 in Los Angeles, CA. She briefly worked for Firestone Tire and Rubber and was a member of the ACLU.…
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Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon Interview, 1987
Del Martin Del Martin (Dorothy Erma Corn) was born on May 5, 1921 in San Francisco. After studying journalism, Martin met Phyllis Lyon on a reporting…
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Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, 1987-1993
This collection includes videos created as part of the Daughters of Bilitis Video Project collection. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a social and…
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Audre Lorde audio recordings, 1977-1986
Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a celebrated and influential Caribbean-American poet, novelist, autobiographer, and…
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Mabel Hampton Oral History Collection, 1976-1989
Mabel Hampton (1902-1989) was an African-American lesbian, an activist, a domestic worker, and a dancer. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she…
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Buffalo Women's Oral History Project, 1978-1990
Part-ethnography and part-history, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy is an intimate history of a lesbian…
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Barbara Smith Classroom Tapes & Interviews, 1988
This collection contains video interviews with students in Barbara Smith’s Mount Holyoke College classes. Topics include Lesbian Feminism, Lesbian…
Contributors: Barbara Smith
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Feminist and Lesbian Writers on Women's Public Radio, c. 1970s
This collection collates the materials used in the exhibit, Feminist Frequencies of the 1970s: Tuning into Women's Words, whichexplores the role of…
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Lesbian Nation radio program, 1972-1974
Lesbian Nation was a groundbreaking radio show produced and hosted by Martha Shelley that specifically focused and revolved around the LGBTQ community…
Contributors: Shelley, Martha
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Ruth Scovill Lesbian Music Interviews, 1970-1974
This collection includes interviews with musicians and record label owners conducted by Ruth Scovill. Scovill is a notable figure of the Women’s…
Contributors: Ruth Scovill, Margie Adam, Susan Abod, Sally Piano, Holly Near, Jennifer Woodul, Ginny Berson
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Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club Interviews, 2021-2022
This collection includes interviews with members of the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club. The Club consists of over one hundred residents of the Rossmoor,…
Contributors: Amy Klitsner, Bobbi Ausubel, EJ Koch, Carol Newhouse, Ann Bidderman, Marlene Michelson, Rhona Lishinsky, Nicole Schapiro, Renee Archer, Judy Greyboys, Janet Seldon, Sharon Noteboom, Lynn Gold, Jade Martner, Deb Mayer, Cecelia Wambach, Andrea Gourdine, Andrea Gilbert, Stephanie Singer, Shirley Kaiser, Celenia Desol, Victoria Rue, Katheryn Poethig, Jean Lerner, Liz Salen, Bev Lyon
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Straight Talk About Lesbians, 1980
A didactic resource in which lesbian women speak frankly about identity, culture, and history. Women discuss their experiences and perspectives as…
Contributors: Buffy Dunker, Eleanor Kendrick, Karen Harding, Jackie Kelly, Yvonne Celeste Forrest, Maryanne McCarthy, Jane Weiss, Gail Bradley, Carol Arber, Bill Bland, E.G. Burkhart, JEB, Colleen Byrnes, Tee Corinne, Jay Doster, Maria Flores, Linda Gordon, Lee Ann Huber, Alix Jeffry, Bettye Lane, Cynthia MacAdam, Jane Meyers, Peggy Mitchell, Jude Moore, Constance Perenyi, John Tobin, Jane Weiss, Bob Wellington, Susan Wilson, Kate Winter, Holly Near, Teresa Tull, Alix Dobkin, Kay Gardner, Margie Adam, Jeff Langley, Meg Christian, Virginia Rubino, Gioia Siciliano, Judy Mayham, Cris Williamson, Linda Tillery, Karen Kane, Linda L. deQuello, Porter Mortell
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Liza Cowan collection, c. 1970s
The 1970’s saw the rise of Feminist Separatism, a movement which advocated for women to center other women in all aspects of their lives, and…
Contributors: Rita Mae Brown, Mary Daly, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Anne Imelda Radice, Judith Katz, Betsy Toth, Alice Walker, Maxine Kumin, Grace Paley, Marcia Danub, Linda Daniels, Eleanor Cooper, Jean O'Leary, Casse Culver, Lee Brown, Colivia Carter, John Cox, Laura Gray, Carol Brill, Sally Gearheart, Karen Kollias, Beverly Fisher, Dolores Bargowski
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Feminist Radio Network, c. 1974-1978
The Feminist Radio Network (FRN) arose out of the WGTB collective Radio Free Women in 1974 amidst alienating conditions at the Georgetown University…
Contributors: Sally Gearhart, Kayla Taylor, Susan Moore, Alice Walker, Grace Paley, Rita Mae Brown, Karen Kollias, Dolores Bargowski, Beverly Fisher
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Radio Free Women, 1972-1974
Radio Free Women (RFW) was a feminist radio collective in the early 1970s
Contributors: Mary Bailey, Mary Helen Bloom, Mary Garrison