“There were scarcely 200 of us in the whole United States,” Gittings said of her fellow crusaders.
During the 70s, Gittings helped form the first gay caucus in an organization, the American Library Association. Barbara Gittings was a lover of books. Alternative news source for lesbians and gay men in … Just over one year later, on July 1, 1970, librarian Israel Fishman organized the first meeting of the ALA Task Force on Gay Liberation at the ALA Annual Conference in Detroit. You may enhance the resolution of each document by clicking on the thumbnail, and then clicking the image again in the next page that appears. Primary Source Types. Map. The collection contains their personal and professional papers, photographs by Lahusen created in the course of forty-five years of gay rights activism, and the extensive collection of materials they gathered and preserved to document the movement. Right: Photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen, Ernestine Eckstein, and Barbara Gittings: Third White House picket, 1965. The Ladder was the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States. It was published monthly from 1956 to 1970, and once every other month in 1971 and 1972. 1 A few months later, activist Barbara Gittings, created the organization’s first “Gay Bibliography,” complete with the “Gay Is Good” slogan she adopted from her friend, Washington, D.C. activist, Franklin Kameny. In the 1950s gay activism was in its infancy.
You may enhance the resolution of each document by clicking on the thumbnail, and then clicking the image again in the next page that appears. Photo, Print, Drawing [Lesbian couple Kay Tobin Lahusen, photojournalist, and Barbara Gittings, activist and editor of The Ladder] [ digital file from original ] Full online access to this resource is only available at the Library of Congress.
She realized, from a young age, that she also loved girls. Below are copies of primary sources from 1965-70. Her main focus was to place positive homosexual information and literature in libraries, something she lacked during her coming out process. Barbara Gittings, often referred to as the “Mother of the Gay Rights Movement,” was an activist since the 1950s, nearly two decades before the Stonewall Inn Riots of 1969. A primary source is a document or an artifact created during the period of time under study. Barbara Gittings is widely regarded as the mother of the LGBT civil rights movement.
It was published monthly from 1956 to 1970, and once every other month in 1971 and 1972.
Her family moved back the United States when she was a child and settled in Wilmington, Delaware. Diana was another photographer who honed her craft in the 1960s, documenting the antiwar movements, the civil rights movements, as well as the jazz and blues music scenes.
Guide to Online Primary Sources: Sexuality. Chicago Whispers : A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s.
The Ladder was the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States. So when, in 1949, she left Wilmington, Delaware to … She eventually moved to Philadelphia, and later to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where she passed away in 2007. Follow the links below to explore a variety of LGBTQ primary source materials freely available on the open web. Barbara Gittings (1932-2007) and Kay Tobin Lahusen (1930-) were gay civil rights pioneers and partners for nearly forty-six years. Gittings edited The Ladder, DOB's national magazine, from 1963 to 1966.