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LGBTQ+ Collections

About Featured Collections

Box 7, Folder 37, The Militant photographic collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

In this section, you will find highlights related to the LGBTQ+ community from our collections.

The Militant photographic collection - The Militant photographic collection consists of pictorial material created or collected by the staff of The Militant for possible publication in the newspaper. Subjects represented in this collection include photographs, drawings, and printed reproductions of illustrations depicting activities of anti-war, civil rights, labor, racial justice, women's rights, and other protest movements in the United States and other countries, mainly from the 1960s through the 1990s.

New Left collection - The New Left Collection largely relates to radical movements for political and social change in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the largest resource in the archives devoted to this turbulent period in American history. Topics covered in the collection include the movement against the Vietnam War; student radicalism; the civil rights movement and black militancy; revolutionary organizations; the women's liberation movement; and the counterculture.