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Gay Illini fact sheet updated

Gay Awareness Week calendar of events

Gay Awareness Week calendar of events

GLBT Awareness Days

Gay Awareness Week poster

LGBT Awareness Days

LGBT Awareness Days

Gay Students' Alliance first meeting memo

Gay Illini fact sheet

  • Gay Illini fact sheet updated
    Image | 1983 | LGBT at UIUCDocument describing the various programs started and maintained by the Gay Illini. Updated from 1976.
  • Gay Awareness Week calendar of events
    Image | 1986 | LGBT at UIUCGay Awareness Week was created by the group when it was under the Gay Illini name. These events eventually became LGBT Awareness Days in later years under other group and office names.
  • Gay Awareness Week calendar of events
    Image | 1983 | LGBT at UIUCGay Awareness Week was created by the group when it was under the Gay Illini name. These events eventually became LGBT Awareness Days in later years under other group and office names.
  • GLBT Awareness Days
    Image | 1998 | LGBT at UIUCIn 1998, the words lesbian and gay were switched, to make the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Awareness Days. There has been much debate about the acronym of groups around the world over the years, particularly in the past two decades.
  • Gay Awareness Week poster
    Image | 1994 | LGBT at UIUCStill known at the time as Gay Awareness Week, poster describing the week's itinerary of events around campus.
  • LGBT Awareness Days
    Image | 1996 | LGBT at UIUCBy 1996 the name of the week long event had been changed to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Awareness Days. Note the list of sponsors, by this time several RSOs now fell under the umbrella Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns.
  • LGBT Awareness Days
    Image | 1997 | LGBT at UIUCBy 1996 the name of the week long event had been changed to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Awareness Days. Note the list of sponsors, by this time several RSOs now fell under the umbrella Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns.
  • Gay Students' Alliance first meeting memo
    Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1975 | LGBT at UIUCThis memo was distributed at Giovanni's, The Balloon Saloon, and presumably other LGBT friendly locales around the C-U area, encouraging members outside of the university to join the group.
  • Gay Illini fact sheet
    Image | 1976 | LGBT at UIUCDocument describing the various programs started and maintained by the Gay Illini.