Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Peninsula Gay and Lesbian Youth Group records document some of the activities of this Palo Alto-centered support group, from its formation in 1984 to 1988. The group offered discussion sessions, peer counseling, referrals to services, and information about organizations, events and topics of interest to LGBT youth, such as AIDS risk reduction. The group later worked in coalition with the LAMBDA Institute on San Francisco to start the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Awareness Program, a project of outreach servicing local high schools. The collection contains Board materials, including meeting minutes; financial records; flyers; mailings about the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Awareness Program, a project of outreach servicing local high schools; materials about other LGBT youth groups and services; news clippings; and a small amount of correspondence. Of particular interest are materials related to a legal dispute over an ad the group placed in The Campanile, the Palo Alto High School’s student-run newspaper. These include the ad, agendas and minutes from Board of Education meetings, a written description and defense of the group by its facilitator Rhio H. Whirter Hiersch, and the legal opinion of the law firm, Breon, Galgani, Godino, & O’Donnell. The collection also contains materials from a later support and advocacy group for LGBTQQ teens on the Peninsula, Outlet, which was founded in 1997. These include training and resource materials from the group’s mentorship program, a flyer and a fundraising letter. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001456
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Gerard Koskovich and gift of Arion Stone on September 24, 2002.
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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Peninsula Gay and Lesbian Youth Group records . GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455