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LGBTQ+ Collections

About Archival Collections

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The Hoover Institution Library & Archives holds more than 6,000 archival collections that document war, revolution, and peace that shaped our world in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our archival collections related to (Subject).

Archival Collections

Firing Line (Television Program) broadcast records, 1966-1999: Includes several episodes related to homosexuality in American society.

Fuller, Kenneth Gibson collection - The Kenneth Gibson Fuller collection records the significant issues that preoccupied the New Left and the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s: the Vietnam War, above all else; black militancy, especially that exemplified by the Black Panther Party; political trials and prisoners' rights; the women's and gay liberation movements; and the condition of the American working class.

Poole, William T. collection - William T. Poole was a research analyst on the House Un-American Activities Committee from the mid 1960s until the Committee’s dissolution. His collection consists largely of materials gathered by the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities/House Committee on Internal Security on organizations, publications, individuals and a few broader categories suspected of un-American activities. Relevant materials include flyers and serial issues published by LGBTQ+ organizations.

Romerstein, Herbert collection - Pamphlets, leaflets, serial issues, studies, reports, and synopses of intelligence documents relating to the Communist International, communism and communist front organizations in the United States, Soviet espionage and covert operations, and propaganda and psychological warfare, especially during World War II.

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