Provenance
This collection of gay newsletters were originally collected by the Gay Activists Alliance (New York) between 1971 and 1974. As the organization started to fall apart around 1974, Ted Rauch brought them to his apartment to preserve them. He also collected the various non-GAA materials in this collection. He donated them to the National Archive of Lesbian and Gay History in 1990.
Scope and Content
Box 1 of the collection, 11" of gay newsletters, is a good reflection of the activities of the early post-Stonewall gay movement in the United States. It also is an indication of the movement outside of the U.S. Box 2 contains the first draft of Jonathan Ned Katz's "Gay American History," materials from the Gay Academic Union, letters memos, and minutes of the National Gay Archives and Library Committee from 1975, and miscellaneous Gay Activists Alliance and other gay-related documents from 1971 to 1976.
Bio
Between 1971 and 1974 Ted Rauch was a member of the Gay Activists Alliance Newsletter Committee and he took charge of the newsletters which GAA received from other gay organizations. From 1973 to 1975, Mr. Rauch worked on at the New York Gay Switchboard and from 1974 to 1976 he was also involved with the Gay Academic Union and with the New York based National Gay Archives and Library Committee which was attempting to set up a national gay archive. At the time Mr. Rauch was also close friends with gay author, Jonathan Ned Katz.
Folder List
Box 1:
1. Newsletters (1970-1974), 12"
Box 2:
1. First draft of Jonathan Katz's Gay American History (1975), 1"
2. Letters and typed material of the National Gay Archives and Library Committee (1975), less than1/4"
3. Miscellaneous, mostly letters concerning a newsletter of the Gay Academic Union (1975), less than1/4"
4. Miscellaneous records relating to gay health (1971-1973), less than1/4"
5. Miscellaneous records (1971-1975, mostly 1971), 1-1/2"
