Randy Burns papers
Series: Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II; Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Archives; Indian gays; AIDS (Disease); Two-spirit people; Indian activists
Description: The Randy Burns Papers, which cover the years 1968 to 2002, include private and professional papers, clippings, correspondence, and research collected by Burns, a Native American activist and co-founder of Gay American Indians (GAI). The collection contains extensive materials on AIDs and associated outreach programs, as well as documents related to the berdache, or two-spirit (third gender) tradition of Native American peoples. The collection also features work by and about a number of individuals associated with GAI, including Mohawk poet Maurice Kenny, anthropologist Walter Williams, and scholar Will Roscoe. Burns's efforts as an activist are represented here as well, via academic papers, correspondence and memos, fact sheets and statistics, flyers, meeting minutes, newsletters, programs, and reports documenting his work in the Native American and larger LGBTQ communities.
Notes: Date range of documents: 1913-1996.

Reproduction of the orignals from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society.