Rohrbaugh, Richard
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
label: Collection Donor
content: Becker, John M.
label: Collection Donor
content: Gay Officers Action League. GOAL
label: Collection Donor
content: Heritage of Pride (HOP)
label: Collection Creator
content: Hirsch, Leonard
label: Collection Creator
content: Guest, Barbara
label: Collection Creator
content: Barna, Joseph T.
label: Collection Creator
content: Guest, Michael E.
label: Collection Donor
content: Rohrbaugh, Richard
label: Collection Title
content: Cruse, Howard, 1944-2019. Stuck Rubber Baby
label: Collection Donor
content: Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA)
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content: Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972-1986, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1146, Series 17
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: In 1970, Richard Rohrbaugh was one of six co-founders of the Gay Activists Alliance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  This series includes gay related periodicals from Philadelphia as well as Washington, D.C..  There are early issues of Washington's The Gay Blade.  There is a copy of The Drummer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that published a photograph of the landmark "Gay, Proud, and Healthy" display at the American Psychiatric Association convention in May 1972.  This series includes the landmark Time magazine with the cover story on Leonard Matlovich, a gay Vietnam veteran.  There is a copy of another landmark publication, The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, the gay community's answer to the heterosexual, The Joy of Sex.  Rohrbaugh died in 2017 in Dunedin, Pinellas County, Florida.