Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Records
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Creators:
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
Dates:
1975-2009, undated
bulk 1993-2008
Size:
7.5 Cubic feet (23 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1282
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection contains records and research material produced and collected by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a lobbying and legal assistance organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender servicepersons. They were instrumental in overturning the United States Department of Defense's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

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Digitized Content Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection
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Creators:
Becker, John M.
Gay Officers Action League. GOAL
Heritage of Pride (HOP)
Hirsch, Leonard
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Dates:
1825-2021, undated
bulk 1960-2021
Size:
63 Cubic feet (189 boxes, 21 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1146
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection contains a variety of periodicals, photographs, correspondence, business and advertising ephemera (corporate and non-profit, personal), organizational records and ephemera, created by, for, and in reaction to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community.

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World AIDS Institute Collection
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Creators:
Johnson, Chad (co-founder)
Purdy, David (co-founder)
Dates:
1986 - 2012
Size:
1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1266
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The World AIDS Institute (WAI) Collection contains correspondence and publicity material of the WAI as well as educational materials, pamphlets, publications, and ephemera collected by them, "to document and preserve the global history of AIDS."

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Leonard P. Hirsch Federal Globe Records
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Creators:
Hirsch, Leonard P., 1955-2015
Federal GLOBE
Dates:
1985-2015, undated
bulk 1995-2015
Size:
4.15 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1357
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers of Leonard P. Hirsch, founder of Federal GLOBE, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender employee advocacy group for the federal government. Hirsch was also the founder of the Smithsonian Institution's chapter of Federal GLOBE. Papers include organizational material as well as newsletters, educational, and lobbying materials. There is a small amount of personal material for Hirsch and his husband Kristian Fauchald.

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Digitized Content Helping People with AIDS (HPA) Records
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Creators:
Meyers, Dan
Helping People With AIDS
Parisella, Neil
Algozer, Jerry
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Dates:
1989-2010, undated
Size:
2.5 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1283
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The records of Helping People with AIDS, a non-profit, charitable organization located in Rochester, New York that was active 1986-2003.

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