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Title: Gay Men’s Spiritual Retreat records
Dates: 1981-2013
Collection Number: 2023-31
Creator/Collector:
Gay Men's Spiritual Retreat
Extent: 17 linear feet (10 cartons and 5 oversized boxes)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: 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.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of item]. Gay Men’s Spiritual Retreat records. Collection Number: 2023-31. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Elliott Brown, March 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
LGBTQ
Gay men
Religion and spirituality
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Albums (Books)
Photographs