CONFERENCE OF GAY/LESBIAN ELECTED AND APPOINTED
OFFICIALS:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Conference of Gay/Lesbian Elected and Appointed Officials, Candidates, Prospective Candidates, and Campaign Workers (3rd : 1987 : Minneapolis, Minn.), creator. | |
| Title: | Conference records. | |
| Dates: | 1987. | |
| Abstract: | Records and audio-taped proceedings from a nonpartisan conference focusing on the mutual concerns and experiences of lesbian and gay elected and appointed officials, candidates, potential candidates, and campaign workers. | |
| Quantity: | 0.1 cubic feet (1 box), 1 master audio file: WAV (1.1 GB), and 1 user audio file: MP3 (226 MB). | |
| Location: | P2399 |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Orientation materials, press releases, news clippings, notes, audio-taped proceedings, and other materials from a nonpartisan conference focusing on the mutual concerns and experiences of lesbian and gay elected and appointed officials, candidates, potential candidates, and campaign workers.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Conference of Gay/Lesbian Elected and Appointed Officials, Candidates, Prospective Candidates, and Campaign Workers (3rd : 1987 : Minneapolis, Minn.) Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 15,584
Location of Master File:
Digital master of the audiocassettes are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original audiocassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into a single wav file.
Processing Information:
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Processed by: Lara D. Friedman-Shedlov, June 2000
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, May 16, 2023, and Aubrey Mullenix, March 2025.
Digital audio transferred from the master audiocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (May 2023).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 990017364700104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| P2399 | 1 | Orientation materials, press releases and news clippings, notes, and other materials, 1987. | |||||||||
| Internet | Taped proceedings, November 20-22, 1987. 1 master audio file (3 hours, 57 minutes): WAV (1.1 GB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (226 MB). | ||||||||||
| 0:00:00-1:03:00 Tape 1 | |||||||||||
| 1:03:00-2:01:38 Tape 2 | |||||||||||
| 2:01:38-3:57:17 Tape 3, recording ends abruptly | |||||||||||
| Note: Low recording volume, difficult to hear all of the speakers. | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Homosexuality -- Law and legislation.
- Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Gay rights.
- Gay politicians -- Minnesota.
- Gay politicians -- Great Britain.
- Persons:
- Coyle, Brian J., 1944-1991.
- Places:
- Minnesota -- Politics and government.
- Document Types:
- Sound recordings.
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