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Title: Barbara Beery papers
Dates: circa 1970s-1990s
Collection Number: 2024-16
Creator/Collector:
Beery, Barbara
Extent: 0.2 linear feet (one half-manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Subject files related to lesbian and gay rights law, historical study, and religious groups, assembled by lesbian attorney
Barbara Beery. Includes “Identity: Lesbian and Gay Christian Scientists” and “Bay Area Lesbians in Law” newsletters; clippings
and correspondence documenting the 1994 controversy regarding gay clergy at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Oakland; and 1970s
meeting materials, mailers, and clippings from the Lesbian Rights Alliance, Lesbian Rights Project, Lesbian History Collective,
and Gay Rights Advocates.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT
Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on
behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use
requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
[Identification of item]. Barbara Beery papers. Collection Number: 2024-16. GLBT Historical Society
Donated by Barbara Beery in November 2012.
Scope and Content of Collection
Subject files related to lesbian and gay rights law, historical study, and religious groups, assembled by lesbian attorney
Barbara Beery. Includes “Identity: Lesbian and Gay Christian Scientists” and “Bay Area Lesbians in Law” newsletters; clippings
and correspondence documenting the 1994 controversy regarding gay clergy at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Oakland; and 1970s
meeting materials, mailers, and clippings from the Lesbian Rights Alliance, Lesbian Rights Project, Lesbian History Collective,
and Gay Rights Advocates.
LGBTQ
Lesbians
Religion and spirituality
Christians
Law
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)