HOLDING PATTERNS: SUGGESTED FINDING GUIDES FROM THE CENTER ARCHIVES (by Joyce Miller, Library volunteer)

[KEYWORDS TO SEARCH: AIDS, AGING LESBIANS, DIABETES, CHRONIC ILLNESS, HEALTHCARE ACTIVISM, QUEER LIFE IN NY, AGING, DISABILITY, 1993, 2022, GRIEF AND LOSS, QUEER DOWNTOWN NYC, LOWER EAST SIDE, RIDICULOUS THEATRICALS, CHARLES LUDLOW, PARKSIDE LOUNGE, COLER REHAB CENTER, COVID, LONG COVID]

10-12-25

1.) MICHAEL CALLEN PAPERS

2.) RANDY WICKER AND MARSHA P. JOHNSON PAPERS

[KEYWORDS: AIDS, DEATHBED WEDDING]

3.)"In the Midst of Winter: Living, Dying, and Grieving in the Context of AIDS" (1991), AIDS Video Project

4.) JOYCE HUNTER PAPERS

[KEYWORDS: AGING, LESBIANS]

5.) LGBTQuarantine Archive Project Collection

[KEYWORD: COVID-19]

6.) Tape 50 - Jun 1977 - 56:16 - Dr. C.A. Tripp; Mama’s Boys; 60 Minute Queer Show

[KEYWORD: PLAYHOUSE OF THE RIDICULOUS]

7.) Counseling Challenges of Early HIV Intervention, 1992

8.) Gay Men's Health Crisis Unionization Records

"Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), founded in 1981, is a not-for-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS.

Scott Melvin was employed by GMHC from approximately August 1990 until May 1995. He worked in the Group Services Department and in the Intensive Case Management Department. He was co-leader of the unionization efforts, along with James Fielding and Carol Vizzier.

The unionization drive at GMHC began in about May 1993 for a variety of different reasons. The unionization vote was February 4, 1994. Before unionization efforts began there was a loose-knit group called the Staff Caucus that met occasionally to discus employee/employee relations."

9.) Black LGBT Alliance records

"The Black LGBT Alliance was a non-profit founded to create a new model for Black LGBTQ community development focused on economic justice, optimal health and wellness, and community safety. The vision of the organization was to transform the relationship between the Black LGBTQ community and government by moving from a disease prevention model to a more holistic approach of community development, with the ultimate aim to eliminate social, health, and economic inequities in the state."

10.) New York Memorial Quilt Records

11.) SAGE (Senior Action In A Gay Environment), 1978 - 1999

12.) David Charnow Papers

"The majority of the collection is dedicated to his time as moderator of the BBS group "Survivors." There are complete printouts of posts from 1987-1989, in which stories heartwrenching and heartwarming are shared between PWAs and their families. It clearly shows the troubles PWAs experienced, from forming new relationships to taking their last breaths, during the late 1980s. The BBS group was in it own way a support group, and the materials here offer rich evidence of this early Internet social platform. Participants lived across the U.S., though mainly the Washington D.C., and New York City areas.

There is also an array of research conducted by Charnow for his thesis project at Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as material related to childhood learning disabilities from courses he both took and taught while at Columbia. There is also evidence of Charnow's research into support groups and healing methods for PWAs from organizations like Mariposa, GMHC, Body Positive, and HEAL."

13.) Thomas Lawrence Long Dissertation

"This collection contains approximately three inches of content stored in three folders. It is a draft of Dr. Thomas Lawrence Long's doctoral dissertation which eventually became the book AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic published in 2012. The dissertation focuses on the discourse of AIDS in New York City between 1981 and 1996. This piece examines apocolyptic tropes and HIV/AIDS effected/infected communities and how these tropes help contribute to the culture within the gay community in New York City. Thomas L. Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated this apocalyptic rhetoric in order to mobilize attention to the medical crisis, prevent the spread of the disease, and treat the HIV infected. Dr. Long explores this topic through performing arts, theater, history, and literary criticism."

14) Wilma Weissman Photographs

Wil (Wilma) Weissman and her partner Benay Phillips owned a co-op at Grove manor in Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY for 18 years. Beginning in 1986 with Wil doing still photography and Benay taking video they covered all the many events during the summer at Cherry Grove. Wil and Benay were involved in the lives of the Grove's drag performers. They also considered the staff of the Ice Palace, Cherry's and the Grove's other bars and restaurants part of their "family." While most of the photography was for their own enjoyment, Wil and Benay did become the official videographers for many of the events as CCC Productions. They both worked as healthcare professionals and were together for 34 years until Benay's death in 2006 of scleroderma.

15.) AIDS Home Care Program/NYC [1986]

"In some ways this is an artificial collection, but there are also records, or copies of records, from the many organizations with which Steinman was actively involved. It is an excellent source for charting the City of New York's interactions with the LGBTQ community, including court decisions relating to Executive Order 50 (requiring contractors for the City to have a non-discrimination policy that included gays and lesbians, folder 153). There are also materials documenting the City's response to the AIDS crisis. Many folders include drafts of letters and reports from city government, especially from the Comptrollers office. Also documented is Steinman's involvement with LGBTQ adoption issues in the 1980s and '90s."

16.) Psychotherapy (American Psychological Association Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns: 2 reports, 1988 & 1990; "Counseling and Homosexuality: Some Considerations" (unauthored paper); "Aging and Lesbian/Gay Male Questionnaire"; Robert Hawkins & A. Elfin Moses, "The Do's and Don't's of a Course on Lesbian and Gay Issues"; Warren Blumenfeld, "Backfire: How Homophobia Harms Heterosexuals")

17.)  Wayne Steinman Papers

"In some ways this is an artificial collection, but there are also records, or copies of records, from the many organizations with which Steinman was actively involved. It is an excellent source for charting the City of New York's interactions with the LGBTQ community, including court decisions relating to Executive Order 50 (requiring contractors for the City to have a non-discrimination policy that included gays and lesbians, folder 153). There are also materials documenting the City's response to the AIDS crisis. Many folders include drafts of letters and reports from city government, especially from the Comptrollers office. Also documented is Steinman's involvement with LGBTQ adoption issues in the 1980s and '90s."

18.) The National AIDS Awareness Test, Without President Reagan,” September 1987

19.) FBI Files

"This collection consists of material the Federal Bureau of Investigation collected on various homophile and gay liberation groups including the Mattachine Society, Gay Liberation Front, the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations, and the National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations, etc., as well as other active organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Panthers. The records are largely censored and/or redacted throughout. Information on particular organizations is often inaccurate; the collection, therefore, says more about the FBI than it does about the gay liberation movement...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of The Department of Justice, followed what the government considered subversive groups. This collection represents some of the materials they collected on gay liberation groups 1953-1970." [INCLUDED DUE TO POSSIBLE RELEVENCE OF TIME PERIOD OVERLAP]