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Title: Gay Buddhist Fellowship records
Dates: 1991-2022
Collection Number: 2015-01
Creator/Collector:
Gay Buddhist Fellowship
Extent: 1.6 linear feet
Online items available
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection contains administrative records, correspondence, flyers, mass mailings, newsletters, meeting minutes and photographs
of activities and members, and audiotapes from the Gay Buddhist Fellowship (GBF). The GBF started in the early 1990s, and
these materials span the first decade of the group’s existence. Early on, the group was called the Gay Buddhist Fraternity.
Audiotapes include lectures and Dharma talks by Robin Courtin, Roger Corless, Howie Cohn, Robert Ennis, Erik Kolvig (”Gay
Sexuality and the Dharma”), Norman Fisher, Myo Lahey and Amy Miller, the First GBF Relationships Forum, among others. There
are also a few 3.5” floppy disks that contain correspondence, talks and newsletter materials. Researchers interested in newsletters
should also see the GLBT Historical Society Periodical Collection.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Gay Buddhist Fellowship records. Collection Number: 2015-01. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Lee Perry Robbins, on behalf of GBF, 2015. Accretions received by mail on November 30, 2015, and from Cass Brayton
in July 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
This small collection contains administrative records, correspondence, flyers, mass mailings, newsletters, meeting minutes,
photographs of activities and members, and audiotapes from the Gay Buddhist Fellowship (GBF). The GBF started in the early
1990s, and these materials span the first decade of the group’s existence. Early on, the group was called the Gay Buddhist
Fraternity. Audiotapes include lectures and Dharma talks by Robin Courtin, Roger Corless, Howie Cohn, Robert Ennis, Erik Kolvig
(”Gay Sexuality and the Dharma”), Norman Fisher, Myo Lahey and Amy Miller, and the First GBF Relationships Forum. There are
also a few 3.5” floppy disks that contain correspondence, talks and newsletter materials. Researchers interested in newsletters
should also see the GLBT Historical Society Periodical Collection. GBF has digitized 800+ lectures and Dharma talks, dating
back to 1996. The recordings are accessible here: https://gaybuddhist.org/podcast/.
GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007698; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007699
Buddhists
Religion and Spirituality
LGBTQ