Support Rally for Gay & Lesbian Rights [broadside]

Files

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Title

Support Rally for Gay & Lesbian Rights [broadside]

Description

This broadside advertises a support rally for gay and lesbian civil rights that was held October 8, 1977.

Activists organized the rally in Monroe Park to protest a concert given at the University of Richmond by Anita Bryant, the popular entertainer who evolved into a prominent anti-gay rights crusader in the 1970s.

The rally’s primary speaker, Karla Jay (b. 1947), is the prominent professor, activist and author who published Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation (1972), with Allen Young. 

Image at bottom shows silhouettes and outlined figures with the caption, "We are your children."

Creator

Richmond Citizens for Gay and Lesbian Rights

Source

Broadside Collection, Call Number 1977:9, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society

Date

1977

Contributor

Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society

Rights

NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. 
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Acknowledgement of the Virginia Historical Society as a source is requested.

Notes

Learn more: 
Anita Bryant at UR, 1970s, LGBTQ History at UR, Common Ground, University of Richmond 
A Guide to the Richmond Gay Documents Collection, 1974-1988, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU

Citation

Richmond Citizens for Gay and Lesbian Rights, “Support Rally for Gay & Lesbian Rights [broadside],” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed December 3, 2024, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/457.