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Charles Stevens papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1147
Scope and Content

This collection consists of documents pertaining to the Apollo Room, interior decoration, and LGBT activism. These documents include Apollo Room travel brochures; an issue of House and Garden; and records documenting Stevens’s donations to Jerusalem House, a non-profit that housed low-income individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. Of particular note is correspondence between Stevens and the Jerusalem House about building an HIV/AIDS clinic in Midtown.

Dates: 1963-2007, undated

Gil Robison papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1152
Scope and Content This collection documents Gilmore "Gil" Robison's career fighting for LGBT rights as a political activist and elected official. Materials show his efforts to legalize gay marriage, to create the Atlanta Gay Center, to battle a law that targeting gay men by banning prostitution, and to stop police harassment of the LGBT community. Materials include official records of the Georgia Democratic Party, which contain voter registration documents and lists of representatives, as well as flyers,...
Dates: 1959-1997, undated

Maria Helena Dolan photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS423
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials collected by Maria Helena Dolan that document her personal life and Atlanta LGBTQ+ community activist meetings and events such as Black Pride, sponsored by In The Life Atlanta (ITLA). Of special note are images related to a Forsyth County protest in response to the Ku Klux Klan's attack on civil rights marchers a week earlier during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Also included is an image of Ray Kluka, Chris Hagen, and Gil Robison as recipients...
Dates: 1954-2003, undated

Southern Voice photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS415
Scope and Contents This collection contains images used for stories published by Southern Voice newspaper. Images include businesses, individuals, organizations, demonstrations and events, and photographs related to political issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender communities. Of particular note are demonstrations associated with ACT UP and the Cobb Citizens Coalition, as well as images of the Atlanta Pride Festival and Parade and Atlanta Black Pride....
Dates: approximately 1968-2010, bulk dates approximately 1990-2010

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AIDS (Disease) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Civil rights demonstrations 2
Demonstrations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Gay community -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Lesbians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
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AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- United States 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation -- United States 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Care -- United States -- Cost control 1
AIDS awareness 1
African American LGBTQ+ people 1
Anti-gay discrimination 1
Asian American LGBTQ+ people 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Religion 1
Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Black LGBTQ+ people 1
Checks 1
Civil rights 1
Detention of LGBTQ+ people 1
Discrimination in employment 1
Drag bars 1
Drag community 1
Drag performers 1
Elections -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Female impersonators -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Forsyth County (Ga.) 1
Gay artists -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Gay bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. 1
Gay liberation movement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Gay men -- Political activity 1
Gay pride celebrations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
HIV (Viruses) 1
HIV-positive persons 1
Hate crimes -- United States 1
Hate groups -- United States 1
Interior decoration -- Georgia 1
International travel 1
Journalism 1
Journalists -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
LGBTQ+ activism 1
LGBTQ+ bars 1
LGBTQ+ bookshops 1
LGBTQ+ civil rights 1
LGBTQ+ community centers 1
LGBTQ+ criminalization 1
LGBTQ+ demonstrations 1
LGBTQ+ discrimination 1
LGBTQ+ people of color 1
LGBTQ+-affirming religious groups 1
LGBTQ+-owned businesses 1
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Lesbian bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Lesbian community -- Georgia 1
Medical care -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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Men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 1
Municipal government -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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Political campaigns -- Georgia -- 1970-1980 1
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Transgender activism 1
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Women -- Political activity -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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Atlanta Gay Center 2
Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing (Ga.) 2
Dolan, Maria Helena, 1954- 2
In The Life Atlanta Inc. 2
Robison, Gil (Gilmore C.), 1947- 2
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ACT UP (Organization) 1
AID Atlanta (Organization) 1
AIDS Walk Atlanta 1
Abernathy, Brandon Ross, 1958-2001 1
Apollo Social Club, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Armory (Bar : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Atlanta Black Pride 1
Atlanta Pride Committee 1
Atlanta Pride Festival 1
Backstreet Atlanta Discotheque (Ga.) 1
Bell, Walter 1
Bennett, E. 1
Blake's on the Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Brown, Laura 1
Burkhart's (Bar : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cash, Christina 1
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) 1
Charis Books and More, 1974- 1
Charlie Brown 1
Cobb Citizens Coalition 1
Cole, Pamela 1
Cracker Barrel (Firm) 1
Democratic Party (Ga.) 1
Enlight Atlanta (Organization) 1
First Tuesday Democratic Association 1
Franklin, Shirley, 1945- 1
Garner, Joan P., 1951-2017 1
Gay Games 1
Gaydar, Inc. 1
Georgia Equality (Organization) 1
Gingrich, Newt 1
Graham, Jeff, 1964 or 1965- 1
Halloway, Gene 1
Hardwick, Michael, 1954- 1
Helms, Jesse 1
Hotlanta River Expo (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Human Rights Campaign Fund (U.S.) 1
Hussain, Pat 1
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 1
Jones, Billy, 1921-2003 1
Kluka, Ray 1
Lesbian Avengers (Organization) 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
Maloney, Mike 1
Murphy, Terry 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (2nd : 1987 : Washington, D.C.) 1
Oscar's Bar (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Otherside Lounge (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Parker, C. J. 1
Poz Life Expo (1997) 1
Project Open Hand/Atlanta (Organization) 1
Pruitt, Sher 1
Rhodes, Richard, 1937-2019 1
Roe, Elizabeth A. 1
Roehr, Bob 1
RuPaul, 1960- 1
Sherwood, Joan T. 1
Smith, Linda 1
Southern Comfort Conference 1
Southern Voice (Firm) 1
Southern Voice (Newspaper) 1
Sproul, Cindy 1
St. John, Charles 1
Stevens, Charles H. 1
Weaver, Jon-Ivan 1
Window Media LLC 1
Woolard, Cathy (Catheren M.), 1957- 1
Youngblood, R. O. 1
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