Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Gay Men’s Spiritual Retreat records
- Dates:
- 1981-2013
- Creators:
- Gay Men's Spiritual Retreat
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 17 linear feet (10 cartons and 5 oversized boxes)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Gay Men’s Spiritual Retreat records. GLBT Historical Society
Background
- Scope and content:
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First founded in 1981, the Gay Men’s Spiritual Retreat’s (GMSR) mission is, in the words of its 2023 web page, “to foster spiritual growth by sponsoring spiritual retreats and activities that are non-religious non-sectarian and non-judgemental.” This collection includes membership and attendee lists, planning meeting minutes, newsletters, and scrapbooks documenting GMSR’s retreats. Each of the collection’s scrapbooks contain dozens of photographs, sometimes interfiled with songs and ritual chants, spiritual literature, activity schedules, and artworks by retreat attendees, that documenting individual retreats in the North Bay Area.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Elliott Brown, March 2023.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1981-2013
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
- Preferred citation:
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Gay Men’s Spiritual Retreat 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