The Association is a gay multiracial, multicultural, political and social organization, founded in 1980, with more than 30 chapters around the U.S. Twenty years after its first national convention, the National Association of Black and White Men Together (NABWMT) donates a significant collection of organizational history to the society. The donation is one of the many extensive archival collections held by the historical society that document decades of LGBTQ organizing and activism. The collection includes the complete records of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the United States, and The Ladder, the organization’s monthly magazine. The society acquires the extensive papers of activists Del Martin (1921–2008) and Phyllis Lyon (1924-2020). The photos in the collection offer a rare glimpse into gay life in 1970s San Francisco, and a significant number have since been digitized. The estate of Crawford Wayne Barton (1943–1993) donates an enormous collection, following the photographer’s death from AIDS. The collection includes correspondence, photos, essays, poems and diaries, some of which were reprinted in 2019 as We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan. The society accessions a major collection from Louis Sullivan (1951–1991), a pioneering gay and transgender activist and historian, a founding member of the GLBT Historical Society, and the founder of the group now known as FTM International.
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