The homophile movement : papers of Donald Stewart Lucas, 1941-1976.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Donald Stewart.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Archives unbound

Unbound Archives.

Archives Unbound

Unbound Archives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay liberation movement.

Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

United States.

Economic assistance, Domestic--California--San Francisco.

Civil rights workers.

California--San Francisco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15,131 images).

Other Title:

Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Lucas, 1941-1976

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection documents the activist and professional activities of Donald S. Lucas. The vast majority of the collection dates from 1953 to 1969. The Lucas collection contains an abundance of material relating to the early homosexual civil rights movement (the homophile movement) and the San Francisco manifestation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. The strength of the collection lies in the administrative and work files of the Mattachine Society, the Mattachine Review, Pan-Graphic Press, and the Central City Target Area of the San Francisco EOC. The collection includes: correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, manuscripts, financial documents, reports, statistics, legal decisions, surveys, counseling records, funding proposals, and subject files. The homophile movement was the first sustained movement for homosexual rights in the United States. The earliest organizations established in California and New York in the 1950s but spread over the next decade to the most populous cities and states in the nation. The Donald Lucas Papers document the Mattachine Society, arguably the movement's most central organization, as well as several other groups established later. Historians continue to debate homophile goals and actions, and whether the movement should be considered successful or not. The Lucas papers enable researchers to engage in and, possibly, further these debates. Meeting minutes provide insight into organizational goals along with debates about ideology and strategy. Moreover, organizational records document the kind and extent of the activities undertaken; such records should allow researchers to study the links (and disjunctures) between goals and accomplishments, ideology and practice. In a broader historical context, the Lucas papers offer scholars insight into the transformation of the movement for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights. Lucas's documentation of the Mattachine Society and other organizations over the roughly fifteen years he worked with those groups demonstrates that the movement was ever-changing as new participants and new ideas in the 1960s replaced those from the 1950s. Although earlier strategies, such as forging alliances with respected professionals, continued on, new approaches, such a protest and political engagement, emerged and became dominant. The Lucas papers document this transition.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 20, 2015).

Date range of documents: 1941-1976.

Reproduction of the originals from The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, San Francisco, California.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012. Available via the World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

OCLC:

803998549

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.