Out in Central Pennsylvania by William Burton with Barry Loveland

Posted by on Feb 11, 2021 in | Comments Off on Out in Central Pennsylvania by William Burton with Barry Loveland Out in Central Pennsylvania The History of an LGBTQ Community by William Burton, with Barry Loveland Pennsylvania State University Press, 280 pp., paperback $24.95 LGBTQ history is preserved in many ways: personal storytelling, community and academic archives, organization blogs, institutional memory, journalism, and books. Many of the books written on LGBTQ history have focused on major...
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Barbara Gittings, Activist for LGBTQ Equality

Posted by on Nov 25, 2020 in | Comments Off on Barbara Gittings, Activist for LGBTQ Equality Barbara Gittings was one of the leading activists for LGBTQ equality, from the early years of the gay rights movement in the late 1950s until her death in 2007. Born in Austria in 1932 and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, she grew up feeling disconnected from her peers in a time when homosexuality was taboo in American society. She attended college in Chicago where she was called a lesbian. When...
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Bringing History Out of the Closet

Posted by on May 8, 2015 in | Comments Off on Bringing History Out of the Closet Joe Burns looks over hundreds of documents laid out in piles on the large dining room table in his sister’s central Pennsylvania home. He is carefully examining, organizing, cataloging and recording them in a timeline highlighting some of the key historical developments in the early lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) civil rights movement in small cities throughout...
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From the Editor

Posted by on May 8, 2015 in | Comments Off on From the Editor The theme we adopted for Pennsylvania Heritage’s 40th anniversary is “Telling Stories, Sharing History,” which has been our mantra since the magazine debuted in 1974. This edition is particularly rich with stories that will broaden readers’ understanding and appreciation of the Commonwealth’s 20th-century history. In fact, all three of the feature articles, in...
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