Beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s, a number of social movements began to
organize, such as the Women’s Rights Movement and the Gay Liberation movement. The
Women’s Rights movement aims to achieve freedoms and entitlements for women and
girls, along with equal rights for women and men. Gay Liberation and other lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) social movements aim for the social acceptance
of sexual and gender minorities, and for gays and lesbians to
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer and political activist
in the American Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, the Gay Liberation
movement, and the feminist movement. She is the bestselling author of a number of
novels, most famously
The Lesbian Issues Collection, 1975-1991, includes newsletters, magazines,
correspondence, clippings, and ephemera pertaining to women’s issues, equal rights,
Gay and Lesbian issues, and socialist movements. Some journals and magazines of note
in the collection include
This collection is open for research use.
Unrestricted use.
Lesbian Issues Collection, 1975-1991, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Nineteen buttons have been separated to the Artifact Collection.
This collection was processed by Brent Carnell, June 1991.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s