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The collection includes minutes, activities, and reports on the action of GIESORC, and on GIESORC related committees, including the President’s Commission on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation. Of note are several DVDs from an It Starts Now program, which focused on students sharing their life stories, including a theatrical presentation.
Content Warning: Violence
Content Warning: Homophobia
Contains Queer Joy
Box 2 Folder 19 Pages 36-37 of book: Engages with heterosexuality vs. lesbianism in the contexts of oppression and privilege.
Box 6 Folder 37 NOW documents related to the AIDS epidemic.
Box 7 Folder 55 NOW quiz and evaluation on gay rights and definitions of terms, resource packet for allyship, lesbians’ rights pamphlet, the Gay Civil Rights Amendments of 1982, a chronology of lesbian rights, and a list of local resources.
Box 9 Folder 68 Materials advocating for comprehensive Sex Education in Schools with mention of sensitivity and awareness of sexual minorities
Content Warning: Homophobia
Box 2 Folder 21 The Dominant Idea. Voltairine De Cleyre. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association. 16 pages. 1910.
Box 4 Folder 56 Mother Earth Volume 2, Number 11 - 1908 “They Who Marry Do Ill” by Voltairine de Cleyre pages 500-512
Box 4 Folder 64 “A Much Needed Defence for Liberty of Conscience Speech and Press With Special Application to Sex Discussion”, by Theodore Schroeder - 1906
Box 3 Folder 363 Letter to Northwest AIDS Foundation
Contains Queer Joy
Box 12 Folder 6: Photograph slides documenting activism on campus following an incident of vandalism of homophobic graffiti on the library mall on April 9th, 2002.
Content Warning: Homophobia
Box 1 Folder 10 Aids News From Seattle WA, 1988.
Box 20 Gay and Lesbians of King County 1985
This is an unprocessed collection.
Box 2 Item 10 Dykes, Diapers, and Dancing: Constructing Lesbian Communities in the 90s. Beth E. Schneider. 1993.
Box 2 Item 26 A Queer Film and My Young Life as a Boy. Women's Studies 300. 1999. Contains Queer Joy
Content Warning ~midway through the video there are details of transphobic and homophobic violence and murder
Contains Queer Joy
Box 23, 41, and 86 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Allies Program; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Association; ROTC program at WSU and admitting LGBTQ into military.