Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Dee Mosbacher papers and Woman Vision records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00740
Abstract
Diane (Dee) Mosbacher is an activist, filmmaker, and practicing psychiatrist. Her production company, Woman Vision, has produced films with themes touching on homophobia in various contexts, women's history, and the lived experiences of people who are gay and lesbian. This collection documents Mosbacher's personal life and professional life both through and outside of Woman Vision. It includes writings by and about Mosbacher, paper records from Woman Vision's projects, and a large amount of...
Dates of Materials:
1950 - 2021; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2013
Jane Garrett papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00497
Abstract
Priest; Editor. Approximately half of collection consists of files pertaining to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, notably the struggle within the Episcopal Church to come to terms with these issues. The other half pertains to authors with whom Garrett worked in her capacity as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, moslty noted U.S. historians. There is also a small amount of material from her work with the Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice Concerns on AIDS in...
Dates of Materials:
1938 - 2003
Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00202
Abstract
Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse was a psychiatrist, theologian, and ordained Episcopal priest known for being poet Syvia Plath's psychiatrist, and for her theological publications related to homosexuality, sex, and women in the Christian church. This collection contains materials reflecting both her personal and professional lives, most of it from about 1970 and later. The collection contains a small amount of materials related to Sylvia Plath, which have been put in separate series for ease of...
Dates of Materials:
1915-1999, 2008
Virginia Apuzzo papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00711
Abstract
Catholic nun; Lesbian activist; AIDS activist; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force director. Correspondence, reports, news coverage, speeches and speech notes, financial records, and photographs. The papers particularly well document the burgeoning AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the political response. The papers also show well how the Gay and Lesbian Movement grew over time and gained wider acceptance as personified by this one woman's rise in relative political power from the State House in...
Dates of Materials:
1940 - 2012