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Title: D. E. Bertelson papers
Dates: circa 1969-1975
Collection Number: 2000-01
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .1 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection consists of a range of materials related to Gay Liberation in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. D. E. Bertelson papers. Collection Number: 2000-01. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of D.E. Bertelson on January 22, 2000.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of a range of materials related to Gay Liberation in the San Francisco Bay Area. These include essays
about homosexuality and mental health and homosexuality and religion; the essay "God and My Gay Soul," by Nicholas Benton,
published by the Committee of Concern for Homosexuals in 1970; flyers for various gay groups and services; a 1972 letter from
Dorr Legg, Director of the Institute of Homophile Studies, to David E. (D.E.) Bertelson, critiquing a paper he wrote in the
History Department at UC Berkeley on Gay Liberation and pointing out the antecedents of the movement; manifestos and communiques
from the gay liberation movement; a copy of "Refugees from America: A Gay Manifesto" by Carl Whitman, published by the Council
on Religion and the Homosexual in 1970; a copy of "On the Development of a Purple Fist," by Judy Grahn, 1969; materials from
the San Francisco Mental Health Association's Task Force on Homosexuality; materials from the Bay Area Regional Conference
of the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention; newsclippings; a copy of "One Magazine celebrating 20 years of gay
liberation" (Jan/Feb. 1972); a copy of the poem "A Day for a Lay" by W.H. Auden; and an untitled gay liberation zine. GSSO
linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374
Gay men