Lost Headlines: Exploring LGBT+ History in Central Pennsylvania

Class Year

2025

Document Type

Digital Project

Date of Creation

Summer 2024

Abstract

The experience of an LGBT+ person living in rural America is vastly different from those in urban populations, given the small population size and differing attitudes arising from such an environment. This project chronicles the history of LGBT+ people within Central Pennsylvania, beyond major cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. By examining local newspaper archives, with support from national papers and local LGBT+ papers of the time, this project documents the struggles LGBT+ people faced as well as moments of pride, focusing especially on the first pride events in key areas, key legal cases and policies changing the landscape for LGBT+ rights, and a survey of the AIDS epidemic.

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Final project for the 2024 Digital Humanities Fellowship at Musselman Library, Gettysburg College.

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