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Descriptive Summary
Title: John Kyper collection of gay liberation ephemera and publications
Dates: 1969-1994
Collection Number: 2005-19
Creator/Collector:
Kyper, John
Extent: 2 linear feet
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Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection contains materials related to the gay liberation movements in the United States and Mexico. John Kyper was
a member of the Faggots for Freedom Collective in Roxbury Massachusetts and a frequent contributor to Gay Community News.
His collection includes gay liberation ephemera, an audiocassette tape, and publications from Mexico, Boston, Chicago, New
York, San Francisco and elsewhere. Notable are materials produced by the Gay Flames Collective, Red Butterfly, the Lavender
and Red Union, the Chicago Seed, and a number of student homophile and gay liberation groups.
Language of Material: English
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Collection is open for research. This collection (excluding the 2024 addition) has been digitized in partnership with Gale/Cengage.
Contact the GLBT Historical Society archivist for information regarding access to the digital collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. John Kyper collection of gay liberation ephemera and publications. Collection Number: 2005-19. GLBT
Historical Society
Acquisition Information
Gift of John Kyper in 2005, with additions in January 2024.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains materials related to the gay liberation movements in the United States and Mexico. John Kyper was
a member of the Faggots for Freedom Collective in Roxbury Massachusetts and a frequent contributor to Gay Community News.
His collection includes gay liberation ephemera, an audiocassette tape, and publications from Mexico, Boston, Chicago, New
York, San Francisco and elsewhere. Notable are materials produced by the Gay Flames Collective, Red Butterfly, the Lavender
and Red Union, the Chicago Seed, and a number of student homophile and gay liberation groups. Other highlights include "Fairy
Poems," edited by Rick Lipinski, which was printed and distributed to participants of the 1979 Spiritual Conference of Radical
Fairies held in the Sonoran Desert; a program from a 1971 conference on gay liberation sponsored by the Rutgers University
Student Homophile League; materials on men against sexism; a 1973 letter from Frank Kameny about the founding of ONE and the
Mattachine Society; and the transcript of a 1974 debate about gay marriage featuring Kameny. There are also copies of material
related to Kyper’s deportation from Canada for being homosexual and a letter from Harvey Milk. The collection also includes
Kyper's writings about Cuba and the gay liberation movement in Mexico, and related ephemera and publications. There are interviews
with Juan Jacobo Hernandez, an AIDS educator and founder of Colectivo Sol, a nongovernmental organization in defense of homosexuals'
rights, and Ignacio Alvarez, founder of the Frente Homosexual de Accion Revolucionaria (FHAR), one of Mexico's earliest gay
liberation groups. There are also letters from Alvarez; correspondence with David Fernbach about a book project Gay in Mexico
by Hernandez and Anton Everts; a few photos from Segunda Marcha del Orgullo Gay (Second Gay Pride March) and a protest; ephemera
from other marches, Colectivo Sol and FHAR; a FHAR flag; and news clippings about AIDS in Mexico. Other groups represented
in the collection include Grupo Lambda, CLHARI, Lesbianas comunistas Feministas, and others. There is an audiocassette tape
labeled 2/17/88 Interview with Mexican Gay Activists. Some of the correspondence, ephemera, news clippings and periodicals
are in Spanish. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374
Indexing Terms
Gay men
LGBTQ
Activism
Latinx people
People of color