D. E. Bertelson papers

Title: D. E. Bertelson papers

Dates: circa 1969-1975

Collection Number: 2000-01

Creator/Collector:

Extent: .1 linear feet

Repository: GLBT Historical Society

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.

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