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    <title>Lilli Vincenz papers, 1879-2013 (bulk 1953-2013)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, journals, speeches, writings, interviews, surveys and questionnaires, academic files, organizational files, biographical material, Vincenz family papers, press clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Vincenz's life as a gay civil rights activist, her work to support and empower lesbians and gay men, and her documentation of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement.  Files on the Community for Creative Self-Development (originally the Program for Creative Self-Development) founded and directed by Vincenz and her partner, Nancy Ruth Davis, include minutes and materials relating to conferences, courses, retreats, and workshops on topics such as gay dating, gay history, and homophobia.  Also includes typescripts of Vincenz's column for GAY newspaper, New York, N.Y., and material pertaining to Frank Kameny and his 1971 campaign for delegate from the District of Columbia to the U.S. Congress, the Gay Women's Open House, the Whitman-Walker Clinic Empowerment Group for People Living with AIDS, and Vincenz's films documenting early gay rights events and other aspects of the gay rights movement.</abstract>
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  <note type="preferred citation">Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Lilli Vincenz Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.</note>
  <note type="acquisition">Gift, Lilli Vincenz, 2013.</note>
  <note type="biographical/historical">Gay rights activist, psychotherapist, and documentary filmmaker.  Born 1937; died 2023.</note>
  <note type="language">Collection material in English with some French and German.</note>
  <note>Audiovisual materials transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
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      <namePart type="date">1925-2011</namePart>
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      <namePart>Empowerment Group for People Living with AIDS.</namePart>
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    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
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    <topic>Civil rights movements</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Dating (Social customs)</topic>
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    <topic>Gay couples</topic>
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    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
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    <topic>Lesbians</topic>
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    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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    <occupation>Documentary fimmakers</occupation>
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    <occupation>Gay rights activists</occupation>
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