LG MS 27 Diane Elze Papers Finding Aid

Description: A 1978 graduate of the University of Maine, Orono, Diane Elze began her volunteer career working for the YWCA Fair Harbor Shelter in Portland, Maine. She was an activist in the LGBT community in the Portland area in the 1980s and 1990s. Among other activities, she was a founding member of the Maine Lesbian Gay Political Alliance, worked on the AIDS Project, and founded the LGBT youth group, Outright. She also edited the newsletter Moving, The Newspaper of the Maine Association of Handicapped Persons and founded the statewide gay and lesbian newspaper, Our Paper. Elze earned a Master’s Degree from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western University, followed by a PhD from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. During her graduate career, Elze’s primary focus of study remained LGBT youth, specifically their mental health and behavioral functioning. Since completing her PhD in 1999, Dr. Elze has held positions as a professor with both Washington University and the University at Buffalo, continuing her research into assisting LGBT youth communities across the Northeast. She remains a prolific writer of articles, editorials and research on LGBT issues including educational resources for teachers and students on how to approach comfortable assimilation of LGBT-friendly initiatives in the school district. The Papers contain publications & newsletters, materials from events such as the Maine Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, newspaper clippings and materials from various Maine LGBT organizations: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Act Now, Act Up, Hysterical Angry Girls Sorority and MLGPA, files on gay topics and organizations in Maine, and personal documents of Dr. Elze, such as correspondence, research, awards, and notes. Date Range: 1971- 2008 Size of Collection: 17.5 ft

LG MS 111 Fortuna, Henderson, Prizer Collection

Donated collectively by Stan Fortuna, Susan Henderson, and Peter Prizer, early activists in Maine’s LGBTQ+ history, this collection of research material spans from 1974 to 2014, with the bulk of material from the mid-1970s. This collection documents the development and activities of the Maine Gay Task Force, including the creation and publication of a newsletter from 1974 to 1980. It opens with planning materials and news coverage of the first statewide gathering for gay people, the Maine Gay Symposium held at the University of Maine’s Orono campus, an event which sparked statewide organizing efforts, including the creation of the Maine Gay Task Force. Completed and draft versions of the Maine Gay Task Force Newsletter from August 1974 to November 1976 are included in this collection, as well as issues of Mainely Gay from January 1977 to April 1980. Please note that these publications are also available on Digital Commons. The collection shows how the publication evolved from MGTF Newsletter to Mainely Gay; the initial issue under new name (Vol 4, #1) notes that “we are a lot more than a group newsletter now” and that “35% of our subscriptions go out of Maine,” reflecting a growing engagement with the larger national community. The bulk of the collection is comprised of LGBTQ+ newspapers and newsletters produced in Maine and across the U.S. between the mid-1970s and early 1980s. The collection’s donors engaged in publication “exchanges” and collected 4 relevant media coverage of local and national LGBTQ+ issues, as well as other areas of social justice interest, amassing over 100 statewide and national publications from over 20 states. The collection also includes a number of subject files on LGBTQ+ and other sociopolitical issues, personal and organizational correspondence, registration forms and other planning information for the Maine Gay symposium, news clippings, pins, and other ephemera

“What the Women of Maine Have Done”: Women’s Wartime Work and Postwar Activism, 1860-1875

Maine women had been active in reform movements during the antebellum era. They joined mother’s associations, temperance groups, abolitionist societies, and woman suffrage organizations. Although the Civil War did not create activists, it did strengthen them, while opening the door for other women to become activists. The war provided an unprecedented opportunity for the women of Maine to be actors in the public sphere. Postwar women’s movements in Maine were therefore fueled by their agency on the home front during the war. The author is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine, working under the supervision of Dr. Mary Hough. In 2007, she received her master’s degree in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College, where her research centered on how Betty Ford refocused the American perspective on the First Ladyship. Her current work at the University of Maine examines the sources of influence on the First Lady, and the nature of power and politic

An Amendment to the Present Bangor City Charter: 1913

Sample: Section 1: That the inhabitants of the Town of Bangor shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the City of Bangor, and, as such, shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, privileges and franchises, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations now appertaining to, or incumbent on said town, as a municipal corporation, or appertaining to or incumbent upon the inhabitants or officers thereof.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1209/thumbnail.jp

Common sense choices

The Maine Gay Symposium has passed without incident, but the University of Maine Board of Trustees is not out of the frying pan yet. The Trustees have tempted the flames of public opinion by standing up for rights of free speech and assembly, but indications are they may jump into the fire of indignant student wrath by tampering with our rights of representation in two crucial decisions

A Three-Point Financial Program for the University of Maine Submitted to the 101st Maine Legislature 1963-65 Biennium

A scanned version of a document that presents various educational statistics on enrollment, salaries, and the budget at the University of Maine, requesting an appropriation from the 101st Maine State Legislature

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

Since its appearance on the educational landscape, school choice has engendered considerable controversy. Those controversies are captured in two forms of "law" -- legislation and litigation. Government legislation at all levels codifies the results of political struggles around school choice and defines choices available to parents. Those unhappy with the results have brought litigation to determine whether the policies are consistent with constitutional provisions and other existing laws. This policy brief examines the relationships between various forms of school choice and the legal authority that both binds and bounds them. As the discussion will show, both the development of and legal challenges to school choice in its various forms can be traced to a tension between the legal principle that parents should be able to direct the upbringing of their children and the legal principle of parens patriae (the government is the ultimate guardian), which forms the foundation for compulsory education in the United States. As such, school choice legislation and litigation go to the very heart of public education and the societal values it reflect

Mainely Gay (January/February/March 1980)

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Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.6, No.9 (November 1985)

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5th Maine Gay Symposium Program

5th Maine Gay Symposium took place March 31 - April 2, 1978at Bangor Community Collegehttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/lgms0011-series10/1003/thumbnail.jp