The second and third pages are a letter from Robert White, Air Force Major, to Biggs Air Force Base Headquarters, listing a number of Airmen who were being discharged at that time, including Gordon Copeland (#7), with a short paragraph in military shorthand.]]>

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Article written by John Kyper

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Published in Boston After Dark, written 27 June 1972, published 2 July 1972

Story

This is an article I wrote for Boston After Dark (later the Boston Phoenix), which was published soon afterwards.]]>

Who made this?

Jim Jackson

Where was it made or acquired?

Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1984

Story

In 1984, Harry Hay was the keynote speaker at Boston Pride. This essay is an account of Jim Jackson's interaction with Harry during the march before his speech.

 

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The letter complains of being pushed out of academic publishing by "a cabal of gay-male leftists and feminazis" due to the author having used pseudonyms to the point of damaged credibility, and regrets that his "humongous manuscript The History of Art History" has not yet found a publisher. The author reports a change of role "vis-a-vis gay and lesbian studies" due to "a postmodern pseudofield that is obscuring, if not obliterating the possibilities for genuine scholarship." On a personal note, the author describes travel to Costa Rica and London, with a companion named Neal. ]]>
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Who made this?

Letter to the editor written by John Kyper

Where was it made or acquired?

Published in Boston After Dark, 1 April 1970

Story

This is a letter-to-the editor of Boston After Dark (which later became the Boston Phoenix), in response to their favorable review of the film version of Mart Crowley's play "The Boys in the Band." I was reminded of this long-forgotten letter when I found Crowley's obituary in early March and dug it out of a filebox of my writings over the years that I'm slowly sifting through to copy items of interest before I donate it and a companion filebox to THP.
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Who made this?

Article written by John Kyper

Where was it made or acquired?

Boston, published in Gay Community News and elsewhere, 18 March 1978

Story

I wrote this analysis of the LGBT movement in early 1978, reflecting on the past year's events in Boston and around the nation (Anita Bryant, the Bible burning at Boston Pride, etc.)]]>

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Who made this?

Em Gamber, Black & Pink Boston

Where was it made or acquired?

Photo at Jamaica Plain branch of the USPS

Story

Black & Pink is an abolitionist organization that seeks to build community and liberation of LGBTQ and HIV+ people impacted by the Prison Industrial Complex. We know that our family held within prisons is particularly at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, so we raised over $30,000 to send to our members in prisons across New England. These letters are from those members telling us what they spent that money on (lots of soap!), thanking us for the donation during this crisis, and looking for connections outside prison walls. LGBTQ people know we cannot rely upon the government to help us in times of crisis, we are each others' help and we survive through mutual aid. ]]>
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Gay Community News Staff Christmas 1973]]> Gay Community News staff posed on a staircase, including: Joe Martin, Loretta Lottman, Sasha, Jon Kyper, Ellen B. Davis, Jan Johnson, and David Peterson (in a nun's habit). This is the first photograph taken of the staff of Gay Community News.]]> Gay Community News staff with banner at Pride 1990]]> Gay Community News holding a large banner in the 1990 Pride march in Boston.]]>
On page 1: "This pamphlet was prepared by the Combahee River Collective, a Boston Black Feminist Organization." The interior pages of the pamphlet include a poem called "with no immediate cause" by ntozake shange that appeared in her book "nappy edges," which was published in 1978 by St. Martin's Press. The authors also provide guidance on self protection and a list of community organizations and resources related to violence against women.]]>

Spanish-language version of similar English-language pamphlets about murders of Black women in Roxbury, Dorchester, the South End, and the Back Bay, all of which are neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. The authors of the pamphlet discuss issues of police and media indifference, violence against women, and the intersectionalities of oppression in the lives of Third World women and women of color. The authors also provide guidance on self protection and a list of community organizations and resources related to violence against women.]]>
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Copyright L. Belmonte, 1987.
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This upgrade was important for veterans in part because a dishonorable discharge disqualified them from medical benefits from VA Hospitals. If upgraded, benefits were retroactive to the date of application, according to the pamphlet.

This pamphlet was in Charles Shively's possession likely because his partner, Gordon Copeland, had been dishonorably discharged from the Air Force on April 3, 1953, In Charles' papers are also copies of letters written by Gordon to the Air Force asking for a hearing of his undesirable discharge due to "alleged homosexuality," as well as a letter to the Boston V.A. Regional Office requesting information on his VA benefits, both dated July 3, 1979.]]>
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