Women's Studies 200/201: Sex, Gender, and Social Constructions

We have the administrative records of the first gay rights organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and one of the earliest such groups in the state. Collection documents the history of GPU from its beginnings as a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student organization to its development as the most important gay and lesbian rights organization in Milwaukee in the 1970s.

See Boxes 1 and 2; for example Box 1 files 15, 19, 25; and Box 2, files 12, 21, 23.

(Note also that the radio programs are online via http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-mil-uwmmss0240;focusrgn=C01;cc=wiarchives;byte=35767575

and the newspaper is in Special Collections.)

Milwaukee, Liberation Publications, October 1971 - January 1981. Call Number: (SPL) HQ76.8 .W6 G6x Periodical of the Gay Peoples Union (or GPU), which was founded in 1971 as a social service agency dedicated to the needs of the gay community, and concurrently dedicated to educating the community at large about gays and lesbians.

Milwaukee: Hag Rag, 1986-1993.
Call Number: (SPL) HQ75 .H34x
Hag Rag was a bi-monthly, lesbian-feminist newspaper focusing on news, non-fiction, political analysis, and commentary of interest to lesbians and radical feminists.

Milwaukee, Liberation Publications, October 1971 - January 1981.

"Some Call Them Gay" is a news program from September, 1973, by TMJ4, on the gay and lesbian community in Milwaukee. (Original footage comes from the Archives.)