Gay American Indians collection
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GLBT Historical Society
2023
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Title: Gay American Indians collection
Dates: 1984-1995
Collection Number: 1997-34
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .2 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection primarily contains secondary materials about the North American Berdache and contemporary LGBT American Indians
assembled by Gay American Indians (GAI) co-founder Randy Burns.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Gay American Indians collection. Collection Number: 1997-34. GLBT Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection primarily contains secondary materials about the North American Berdache and contemporary LGBT American Indians
assembled by Gay American Indians (GAI) co-founder Randy Burns. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, agendas,
conference papers and critiques from sessions of "Revisiting the 'North American Berdache' Empirically and Theoretically,"
at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and two Werner-Gren Conferences from 1993 and 1994. There
are also reprints of a questionnaire, academic articles and a book about AIDS in Indian Country, as well as gender and sexuality
among contemporary American Indians. There are a few primary documents, including flyers for the Second Annual Gathering of
American Indian Gays and Lesbians (1989) and a lecture on Zuni History by Will Roscoe (1987). GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007398;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008283; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008285; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001601;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_006371
American Indians
Two-Spirit people
Native Americans
Indigenous people
People of color