Oregon State University students streaking through the dorm quad on Halloween night in 1975. The national college fad of streaking started in the 1970s. (Barometer, Nov. 3, 1975, p. 1).
Ex-gay meeting notice: "How can a trend toward homosexuality be reversed?" (Barometer, Jan. 28, 1976, p. 2).
Student newspaper article, "Center orients women to man's world," Barometer, Sep. 25, 1975, p. 33, recounts history of the Women's Center. The headline appears to be unintentionally sexist.
University of Minnesota, openly gay, law student Jack Baker is elected to his first of two terms as student body president wearing high heels in a poster with the caption "Put Yourself in Jack Baker's shoes!" April 1971.
Cover of an eight page booklet by Oregon State University professor Lester A. Kirkendall, "Parents, children and the sex molester," published by the E.C. Brown Trust for The Oregon Coorinating Council on Social Hygiene and Family Life,…
The cover of the June 3, 2005 issue of the journal Cell showed same-sex Drosophila ("gay fruit fly") sexual behavior. Oregon State University professors and students are doing some of the gay fruit fly research.
Oregon State University student Tess Jarmain escorts four male-oriented (homosexual) rams (a.k.a. "gay sheep") in OSU's flock back to pasture. [16]
W. Dorr Legg (1904-1994) in 1935 was appointed assistant professor of landscape architecture at a state university in Oregon.
Former Oregon State University and NFL football player Esera Tuaolo comes out as gay on the cover of The Advocate. [11]
Front page story "Same-sex weddings OK'd," (Corvallis, Oregon) Gazette-Times, Mar. 17, 2004, profiles two older lesbian women planning to get married.
Front page story "Same-sex weddings OK'd," (Corvallis, Oregon) Gazette-Times, Mar. 17, 2004, profiles two older lesbian women planning to get married.
Reverend Troy Perry of the Metropolitan Community Church conducting a same-sex marriage ceremony in 1971. From article "Homosexuals in revolt: The year that one liberation movement turned militant," Life Magazine, Dec. 31, 1971, p. 70.
May 18, 1970 Michael McConnell and Jack Baker were married by Hennepin County Minnesota Justice of the Peace. (See Ken Bronson, "A Quest for Full Equality," www.may-18-1970.org self-published May 18, 2004) [6].
Newspaper article "Gay women: Coming out of the closet in Corvallis, 'Now I want to marry this woman,' " (Corvallis, Oregon) Gazette-Times, Jan. 9, 1976, p. 8.
Newspaper headline "Gay women: Coming out of the closet in Corvallis, 'Now I want to marry this woman,' " (Corvallis, Oregon) Gazette-Times, Jan. 9, 1976, p. 7.
This exhibit describes post-Stonewall gay activism at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon and events that motivated the formation of the first officially recognized gay student group at OSU in 1976.
The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa student newspaper, begins a 5-part series on the young gay liberation movement. “Gay Liberation Is Here to Stay” it announces in the first part. A later installment described the first Gay Liberation Front…
The First International Drag King Extravaganza (IDKE) opened in Columbus, Ohio. A first-of-its-kind event, it was a collaborative, non-competitive gathering of drag kings, their fans, and the people who studied, photographed and filmed them. The…
The inside of the "Gorilla Queen" program from the Judson Poet's Theater, including production and cast information.
The inside of the "Gorilla Queen" program from the Martinique Theater, including production and cast information.