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Fundraising Card: Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" Campaign
This fundraising card asks the recepient to join Anita Bryant's campaign to "bring America back to God and morality," a campaign which stood against LGBTQ+ individuals' rights in South Florida. Bryant's campaign, Save Our Children, and its subsequent…
Newsletter: "What does L.C.N. stand for?"
This newsletter details the origins of the Loving Committed Network (LCN) in Orlando, Florida, a gay women's organization dedicated to providing gay women with events specifically for them. The organization began in 1984.
Newsletter: "A Letter from the Senior Pastor at Joy MCC"
This newsletter informs patrons of the Joy Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) that the church launched a fundraiser. It also provides an overview of the church's history, such as its origins and its progress in the Central Florida region. Joy MCC…
Photograph: Southern Nights Sign
This image shows the from sign of the bar Southern Nights. Originally established in 1982 as "Southern Changes," the bar has undergone several name changes, but it currently is called Southern Nights
Photograph: Last Moving Picture Company (c. 1980)
This image depicts well-dressed tables in a large room, with the logo of the Last Moving Picture Company on the back wall. It is likely that this room held either a banquet or an auction. Bill Miller, one of the original members of Orlando's Gay and…
Collage: Gay and Lesbian Gang
The five individuals in this collage were instrumental in setting up the Orlando-area gay bar scene in the 1970s. Pictured from left to right: (top) Mike Hodge, Bill Miller, Jan Koren, (bottom) Wally Wood, and Sue Hannah.
Newsletter: "Gay Social Services Newsletter: Hotline Expands Soon" (1979)
This newsletter from Gay Social Services details how successful that their gay peer information and counseling hotline became and anticipated its expansion from four to seven nights a week just two months after beginning in March 1979. The hotline…
Flyer: "GLCS Presents Gay Skate"
In 1978, Gay Social Services was founded. The following year, the organization inaugurated Gay Skate Night at the Semoran Skateway in Casselberry, Florida, as shown by this advertisement. Gay Skate Nights brought together many LGBTQ+ individuals of…
Advertisement: "Best of Luck to All from... Parliament House and El Goya"(1977)
This advertisement wishes the best to the 1977 entrants into the Miss Florida Female Impersonators Pageant. This pageant took place before the El Goya burned down in November 1977.
Advertisement: "Hank's Happy Hour" (2000s)
This advertisement is for the bar Hank's. The bar ran happy hour every day of the week from noon to 8pm.
Hank's originally opened in 1977 under Wally Wood, one of the members of the Gay and Lesbian Gang. It closed sometime in the following years,…
Hank's originally opened in 1977 under Wally Wood, one of the members of the Gay and Lesbian Gang. It closed sometime in the following years,…
Photograph: Las Novedades
This image depicts Las Novedades, a historic restaurant in Ybor City, Florida, established in 1890. In 1976, Bill Miller of the Parliament House purchased the restaurant and converted it into El Goya Lounge, a gay bar. The bar was open for less than…
Photograph: "Equal at UCF" Logo (2009)
Originally formed in 1976 as the Gay Student Association (GSA) at Florida Technological University (later UCF), Equal at UCF provides LGBTQ+ students with a safe space without fear of discrimination.
Photograph: Parliament House Motor Inn Sign (1975)
This photograph is of the Parliament House Motor Lodge welcome sign in 1975. The sign reads "It[']s a nice day. Smile."The Parliament House Motor Lodge, originally established in 1962, was purchased by Mike Hodge and Bill Miller after the Orlando…
Photograph: Walt Disney with company at press conference, Orlando, Florida (1965)
This photograph depicts Walt Disney (left), Florida Governor Haydon Burns (center), and Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy Disney (right) at a press conference in late 1965. Walt Disney World opened just six years later in 1971. Its opening marked an…
Photograph: Ann Landers head-and-shoulders portrait (1961)
This portrait depicts Ann Landers (real name Esther Pauline Lederer), a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Landers's column was influential within the LGBTQ+ community for many years for her opinions on the community and other related topics.
Advertisement: "Palace Club: Orlando's Only All Gay After Hour Tradition" (1991)
In this advertisement, the Palace Club sought to attract gay patrons to its "only all gay after hour tradition" on the weekends. This advertisement was put out after the club's move in 1981 to 3400 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, Florida.The Palace…
Photograph: Senator Johns discussing plans to screen-out homosexuals (1963)
This photograph, taken in 1963, depicts Senator Charley Johns (center), for whom the Johns Committee was named, speaking with Dr. B.R.Tilley and A.E. Mikell, both public school leaders, about plans to identify and remove homosexual individuals from…