1970-1972
1970
The publications collective of the Women’s Liberation Front begins publishing a newspaper titled Ain’t I a Woman and distributing it nationally. It deals with lesbian themes from the outset and by the time AIAW ceases publication in 1974 the collective is primarily lesbian.
Gay Liberation Front at the University of Iowa becomes the first gay student group in the U.S. to be officially recognized by a university. The 1971 Hawkeye yearbook includes a photograph of GLF’s entry in the 1970 UI homecoming parade.
On October 27, 1970, The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa’s student newspaper, begins a five-part series on the newly-emerging gay rights movement.
Part two of The Daily Iowan’s series on the emerging local gay rights movement notes Gay Liberation Front’s first dance held at the campus’s Iowa Memorial Union on October 24, 1970.
1971
A women’s center opens in March in a Quonset hut leased from the University of Iowa; it serves as a meeting place and a clearinghouse for women’s activities on and off campus and is run as a collective. In August 1971 the University provides a house at 3 E. Market Street for the Women’s Center. In 1974 the name is changed to the Women’s Resource and Action Center to reflect its expanded goals. The Center moves to its current location at 130 N. Madison Street in 1976.
1972
A women’s center opens in March in a Quonset hut leased from the University of Iowa; it serves as a meeting place and a clearinghouse for women’s activities on and off campus and is run as a collective. In August 1971 the University provides a house at 3 E. Market Street for the Women’s Center. In 1974 the name is changed to the Women’s Resource and Action Center to reflect its expanded goals. The Center moves to its current location at 130 N. Madison Street in 1976.
Promotional brochure from the Iowa City Women’s Press, ca. 1975.
Staff operate printing machinery at Iowa City Women’s Press, ca. 1975