Stokes (Rick Earl) Collection of Pamphlets on Christianity and homosexuality, 1964-1970, 2022

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Title:: Rick Earl Stokes collection of pamphlets on Christianity and homosexuality
Dates:: 1964-1970, 2022
Creators:: Stokes, Rick Earl
Abstract:
Extent:: 0.2 linear feet (2 folders)
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Preferred citation:: Rick Earl Stokes collection of pamphlets on Christianity and homosexuality. GLBT Historical Society

Scope and content:: A collection of 17 pamphlets belonging to gay activist and business owner Rick Earl Stokes. Titles include: Toward a Quaker View of Sex, Revised Edition (1964); Homosexuality: A Contemporary View of the Biblical Perspective (1966); Churchmen Speak Out on Homosexual Law Reform (1967); The Church and the Homosexual (circa 1967), two copies; Social Progress: A Journal of Church and Society issue “What About Homosexuality?” (November/December 1967), two copies; Brief Non-Fiction Bibliography on Homosexuality (circa 1967); Social Action issue on “Civil Liberties and Homosexuality” (December 1967); The Challenge and Progress of Homosexual Law Reform (1968); Essays on Homosexuality: Council on Religion and the Homosexual (1968); Homosexuality and the Sickness Theory (1969), two copies; Informatiebulletin Dialoog issue (May/June 1969); and Sexuality and the Human Community (1970). The collection also includes a program from Stokes’s July 16, 2022 memorial service at the Century Club of California in San Francisco.
Acquisition information:: Gift of Richard Glidden, July 2024.

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff.
Date Prepared:: 1964-1970, 2022
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Preferred citation:: Rick Earl Stokes collection of pamphlets on Christianity and homosexuality. GLBT Historical Society

Location of this collection:: GLBT Historical Society

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San Francisco, CA 94103, US