LG MS 37 Penny Rich Collection Finding Aid

Description: Records and artifacts documenting the Maine Lesbian Gay Film Festival and Women\u27s Community Project of Portland Date Range: 1980s-1990s Size of Collection: 7 ft

LG MS 39 Maine Frontrunners Archives Finding Aid

Description: Maine Frontrunners was founded April Fool’s Day, 1995, inspired by the enthusiastic leadership of the legendary runner John Bean. The group has run Saturday mornings since then, through all kinds of weather. The Maine group is part of International Front Runners, an affiliation of GLBT running/walking clubs that have organized in many of the larger cities around the world. Inspired by Patricia Nell Warren\u27s novel The Front Runner, the first Front Runner club began in San Francisco in 1974, and other FR clubs quickly began forming in the United States and then in Canada and abroad. Date Range: 1994-2003 Size of Collection: 1.25f

JUD MS 6 Myer Marcus Interview Finding Aid

Description: Myer M. Marcus was born in Portland, Maine in 1914, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants Saul Marcus, a Portland clothier, and his wife Bertha Marcus, nee Goldstein. As a boy he enjoyed spending his free time at the Portland Boys Club on Plum Street. He attended North School and Portland High School, then spent one year at the University of Virginia before transferring to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Marcus earned his LL.B. in 1937 from Boston University School of Law, then returned to Portland to open the Marcus and Marcus law office on Exchange Street with his younger brother Harry. At the end of his career, Marcus worked for the Portland law firm of Marcus, Clegg, and Mistretta, P.A. He retired from practice in 2005, at the age of 91. Both he and his wife Frances were members of Portland’s Temple Beth El. In the Interview, Marcus speaks briefly about his parents’ immigration experience and his early boyhood and family life in Portland, Maine, including some anecdotes about life during the Great Depression. He tells of establishing his own law firm in Portland after graduating from Boston University School of Law speaks of various cases in which he was involved. Date Range: 2001 Size of Collection: 0.25 ft

LG MS 038 Frances Peabody Papers Finding Aid

Description: Frannie Peabody was one of Maine\u27s leading AIDS activists. Best known in Maine and nationally for her exceptional leadership in the AIDS epidemic, she also gave significant service on historic preservation, child welfare, and gay rights issues. She was a founder of Portland’s The AIDS Project and of the Frannie Peabody Center (formerly Peabody House), as well as of Greater Portland Landmarks. The Papers contain Peabody\u27s personal papers, including her work with The AIDS Project and bereavement counseling. Date Range: 1981-1999 Size of Collection: 24.5 ft

LG MS 35 Ryan Conrad Collection Finding Aid

Description: Ryan Conrad is a radical queer activist. He is co-founder of Naughty North, an inter-generational radical queer/trans direct action collective in Maine. He participates as a volunteer, board member, and/or advisor for a number of community organizing groups, including EquityFund (board member 2008-present), Outright Lewiston/Auburn (Special Projects Coordinator and volunteer advisor, 2006-present), Maine HIV Prevention Community Planning Group (2009-present), and Maine Video Activist Network (co-founder and volunteer, 2006-present), among others. Conrad curated the June 2009 exhibition Future of the Past: Reviving the Queer Archives at Maine College of Art. The Collection contains materials related to radical queers in Maine and elsewhere, and the case of the New Jersey 4. It includes newsletters, posters, signs, a halter top, pins, a \u27zine about radical queer moments, literary publications, and videos. Of particular interest are materials from and about the exhibition of Annette Dragon’s photographs which Conrad curated at MECA in 2009. Date Range: 2007-2009 Size of Collection: 2.25 ft