Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights, 1964-1999

Overview of the Collection

Collector
Mayhew, Tim
Title
Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights
Dates
1964-1999 (inclusive)
Quantity
9.15 cubic feet (21 boxes, 1 vertical file and 1 oversize folder)
Collection Number
4440
Summary
A collection documenting Gay activism in Seattle
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all users.

Request at UW

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Tim Mayhew was a gay community activist in Seattle throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. He became an archivist of the gay community, collecting materials related to gay activism from Seattle groups he was involved in and from many other organizations. Mayhew donated his collections (see Related Collections) to the University of Washington Special Collections in the 1990s. Maxwell Timothy Mayhew was born in Detroit on January 1, 1941 to Maxwell and Jeanne Mayhew. His family lived in Denver, then Salt Lake City, and Salmon, Idaho before moving to Spokane, Washington where Mayhew attended high school. He played flute and piccolo in his high school marching band and in the Husky Marching Band at the University of Washington. He majored in Russian language and linguistics, but interrupted his studies to volunteer in the Army, where he served as a medic stationed at Fort Lewis. After his honorable discharge, he returned to the UW, where he earned a BA and completed graduate studies.

Mayhew was a member of the Seattle Gay Alliance (SGA) in the early 1970s. He served as the chair of the SGA Education Committee circa 1972-1975 and as SGA's first lobbyist in Olympia, Washington in 1973. He helped found Seattle's first Gay Community Center in 1971 and was also involved with the Gay Liberation Front. For several years in the 1970s he served as Seattle editor of the Northwest Gay Review, a newspaper based in Portland, Oregon. He was a member of the ACLU of Washington and served on its Sexual Minorities Committee around 1977 to 1980. Among his many public testimonies and statements are the Position Statement on Homosexual Civil Liberties and Position Statement on Marriage for the ACLU of Washington in 1971. He lobbied in Olympia again circa 1981. In 1993 he helped found the Harvey Muggy Lesbian/Gay Democratic Organization.

Mayhew died on April 30, 2017 in Seattle.

Historical BackgroundReturn to Top

In the years following World War II, Seattle developed a reputation for being tolerant of homosexuality (by standards of the day). Nevertheless, most gay men and women in Seattle remained closeted and lived with the fear of harassment and discrimination. The Dorian Society, organized in 1967, was Seattle's first documented gay organization. It was part of a national "homophile" movement that emerged in the 1950s and continued to develop through the 1960s. The group sought to promote acceptance of gays in the larger society and to serve as a social organization for gays.

In the period following the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, gay liberation organizations sprang up in cities across the country, including Seattle. Students at the University of Washington organized the Gay Student Association and the more radical Gay Liberation Front. The first Gay Community Center in Seattle was founded in 1971. Other organizations born in the 1970s include the Gay Women’s Alliance; the Gay Women’s Resource Center (now the Lesbian Resource Center); Seattle Gay Alliance; Union of Sexual Minorities; Stonewall Recovery Center; Lesbian Mother’s National Defense Fund; the Metropolitan Community Church; Parents, Families, Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG); and the Seattle Municipal Elections Committee.

In 1978, Initiative 13 attempted to repeal the Seattle ordinances protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination in housing and employment. It came on the heels of a national spate of successful anti-gay measures. The campaign galvanized the political voices of Seattle's gay community, and the measure was soundly defeated.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights documents a broad range of gay organizations in Seattle from the 1960s through the 1980s. The material includes organizational papers such as by-laws, minutes, and correspondence, as well as fliers, newsletters, brochures, programs, and other ephemera.

Mayhew collected much of the material himself in the course of actively participating in the various organizations represented, but he also collected material from groups he was not directly involved in. Some material was given to him by people who wanted to add to his informal archive or sent to him in his capacity as Seattle editor of the Northwest Gay Review . Unfortunately, it is not always possible to determine the original source of the material or the extent of Mayhew's own involvement with a given organization.

Mayhew focused his collecting on political and civil rights organizations. There is some material on Seattle's gay social organizations, businesses, and cultural activities (in the Directories and Ephemera series), but in general these areas are not covered very extensively. Most of the material pre-dates AIDS awareness; thus, AIDS organizations are not represented particularly well. There is some material on lesbian organizations, but the collection is heavily weighted toward male groups.

The collection is arranged primarily by organization. The Subject Series contains fliers, mailings, and newsletters from many local and national gay organizations, arranged alphabetically by organization or topic. Both national and local organizations are represented. Subgroups represent local organizations that are covered in greater depth, with minutes, agendas, correspondence, and other materials. There is also a smaller amount of material organized into general categories such as Directories of gay organizations and businesses, Ephemera related to various topics, Broadcast Editorials from local radio and television stations, Clippings, and Newsletters. Box 18 contains oversized materials from various series and subgroups.

The largest subgroup in the collection documents the Dorian Society, with major correspondence from Herb Lee, Mike Allen, and Ken Gilbert. Founded in 1969, the society was renamed the Seattle Gay Alliance in 1971, remaining under this name until it was dissolved in 1975. The group sought to educate gays and straights about homosexuality, to promote acceptance of gays in the larger society, and to serve as a social organization for gays. Its activities included public speaking, publishing a newsletter, organizing social events, and lobbying the state legislature. In 1969 the society opened Dorian House, home to one of the nation's first gay counseling services, and in 1971 it helped found Seattle's first Gay Community Center. Both Dorian House, later renamed the Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities, and the Gay Community Center went on to become independent organizations and are represented by subgroups in the collection.

The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessmen who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. Politicians, national gay figures, and local officials were invited to these meetings. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, the Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.

Several political and civil rights organizations are represented in the collection. The Seattle Municipal Elections Committee for Gays (SEAMEC) was founded in 1977 to evaluate candidates for public office and endorse those candidates who supported gay rights. Mayhew served on the Candidate Evaluation Committee, ca. 1977-1981. Citizens to Retain Fair Employment, the Seattle Committee Against Thirteen, and Women Against Thirteen were among the groups organized to fight Initiative 13 (which unsuccessfully attempted to delete the words "sexual orientation" from Seattle anti-discrimination ordinances for housing and employment). The Washington Sexual Minorities Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union worked to identify violations of gay persons' civil rights for the ACLU to pursue. The collection includes material on issues such as marriage law, sex and sodomy laws, gay prisoners rights, police harassment, and immigration law.

The collection also includes material from several gay religious organizations. The Metropolitan Community Church, founded in Los Angeles in the 1960s, formed a congregation in Seattle in 1972. Evangelicals Concerned, a group for gay Evangelical Christians, formed in 1976 and became the Grace Gospel Chapel in 1977.

Accession 4440-2 consists of handbills, fliers, and other ephemera related to gay activities and gay organizations, particularly in Seattle. The materials, which are unprocessed, span the years 1978 to 1998, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1995 to 1998.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The creator's literary rights are in the public domain.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 3 accessions.

  • Accession No. 4440-001, Tim Mayhew collection on gay rights / Tim Mayhew papers, 1967-1985
  • Accession No. 4440-002, Tim Mayhew collection on gay rights / Tim Mayhew papers, 1994-1998
  • Accession No. 4440-003, Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights, circa 1979-1988

Processing Note

Processing of Accession 4440-001 was completed in May of 1994. Accessions 4440-002 and 4440-003 are unprocessed.

A small number of photographs were relocated to the Tim Mayhew Photograph Collection in the division in 2004.

Separated Materials

A large number of newspapers were part of this donation. They included small runs of several Northwest gay publications and a smattering of gay publications from around the country. Publications that Mayhew had a role in creating and those that were part of the records of the issuing organzation were retained for this collection. Other Northwest publications were offered to the University of Washington Libraries Microform and Newspaper collection; after microfilming, some of these were added to the Libraries' collections, and some are available in the Pacific Northwest Collection in this division. Other materials, particularly single issues of non-Northwest publications, were transferred to other libraries that lacked those issues. These institutions include the International Gay Archives at the New York Public Library and the ONE Institute-International Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles.

Bibliography

Atkins, Gary, Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).

Related Materials

The Washington State Historical Society holds the records of the Northwest AIDS Foundation and the papers of gay activist Charlie Brydon and state Representative Cal Anderson, Washington's first openly gay legislator.

Martin Lee reminiscence of Tim Mayhew (Mss Coll 6340)

Tim Mayhew photograph collection (PH Coll 0705)

Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project oral histories (Mss Coll 5929)

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 4440-001: Tim Mayhew collection on gay rights / Tim Mayhew papers, 1967-1985Return to Top

8.55 cu. ft. (19 boxes)

Scope and Content: Newsletters, ephemera, minutes, correspondence, publications of gay rights organizations, in Seattle and elsewhere, 1967-1993 (bulk ca, 1967-1985). Included are papers Mayhew collected from others.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users

Acquisition Info: Source: Tim Mayhew, September 21, 1993.

Container(s) Description Dates
Miscellaneous Collected Papers
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 4440-001
General Correspondence
1970-1971
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
1/2 4440-001
Concern
General Notes: Issued by the Southern California Council on Religion and the Homophile.
1967-1968
1/3 4440-001
Cornell Gay Liberation Front News
1970-1971
1/4 4440-001
The Ladder
1967
1/5 4440-001
Out and About: Seattle Lesbian Feminist Newsletter
1976-1977
1/6 4440-001
Vancouver PWA [Persons with AIDS] Newsletter
1990-1993
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
1/7-9 4440-001
Miscellaneous
1964-1981
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Miscellaneous
1964-1981
box:oversize Accession
18 4440-001
Newspapers
1973-1984
Box/Folder
1/10 4440-001
Catalogs
undated
Directories
Box/Folder Accession
1/11-1/12 4440-001
Gayellow Pages
1973-1979
1/13-2/1 4440-001
Gay Areas Private Telephone Directory
1982-1983
2/2-3 4440-001
GSBA [Greater Seattle Business Association]
1982-1993
Gay Organizations
Box/Folder Accession
2/4 4440-001 1972-1977
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Gay Organizations
1972-1977
Box/Folder Accession
2/5 4440-001 1971-1985
Box/Folder Accession
17/5 4440-001
Publications
1967-1990
Ephemera
Box/Folder Accession
2/6 4440-001 1988-1993
2/7 4440-001 1971-1986
3/1 4440-001 1977-1991
3/2 4440-001 1981-1993
3/3 4440-001
Miscellaneous
undated
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
3/4 4440-001
The Advocate
1971-1986
3/5-6 4440-001
Christianity, Theological Views of Homosexuality
1971-1978
Churches on Sex Law
Box/Folder Accession
3/7 4440-001
Churches on Sex Law
1971-1972
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Churches on Sex Law
1971-1972
Box/Folder Accession
3/8 4440-001 1978
3/9 4440-001
Council of Planning Affiliates (COPA), Seattle
undated
Democratic Party, Gay Democratic Club, San Francisco
Box/Folder Accession
3/10 4440-001
Democratic Party, Gay Democratic Club, San Francisco
1980
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Democratic Party, Gay Democratic Club, San Francisco
1980
Box/Folder Accession
3/11 4440-001
Dignity, Los Angeles
1973
3/12 4440-001
EMMAUS, San Francisco
undated
3/13 4440-001 1972-1979
4/1 4440-001
Gay Academic Union, New York, N.Y.
1973
Gay Activists Alliance
Box/Folder Accession
4/2 4440-001
Canada
1972
4/3 4440-001
New York
1972
4/4 4440-001
New York City
1971-1972
4/5 4440-001
San Francisco
1972-1973
4/6 4440-001
Washington, D.C.
1972
box:oversize Accession
18 4440-001
Gay Alliance Towards Equality (GATE), Vancouver, B.C.
1973
Box/Folder
4/7 4440-001
Gay Community Alliance, Los Angeles
1971
4/8 4440-001
Gay Community Services Center, Los Angeles
1971
4/9 4440-001
Gay Community Social Services Center, Inc. (Lavender Country-Sherwood Forest Collective)
1973
4/10 4440-001 1971-1973
4/11 4440-001
Gay Fellowship, Los Angeles
1971
Gay Liberation Front
Box/Folder Accession
4/12 4440-001
Orange County, Calif.
1977
4/13 4440-001
Portland
1972
4/14 4440-001 1970
Box/Folder Accession
4/15 4440-001
Gay People and Mental Health
1973
Gay People's Alliance
Box/Folder Accession
4/16 4440-001
Eugene
1973
4/17 4440-001
Portland
1973
4/18 4440-001 1972-1979
Box/Folder Accession
4/19 4440-001
Gay People's Association at the University of Washington
1975-1978
4/20 4440-001 1991-1993
Gay Pride Parades, Christopher Street Liberation Celebrations
Box/Folder Accession
4/21 4440-001 1971-1986
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Gay Pride Parades, Christopher Street Liberation Celebrations
1971-1986
Box/Folder Accession
4/22 4440-001
Gay Students Association, University of Washington
1971-1974
4/23 4440-001
Homophile Action League, Philadelphia
1970-1972
4/24 4440-001
Homophile Effort for Legal Protection (HELP), Los Angeles
1971
4/25 4440-001
Homosexual Community Counseling Center, New York, N.Y.
1972-1974
4/26-27 4440-001
Knights of Malta, Jet Chapter
1976-1978
4/28 4440-001
Labor Unions
1973
4/29 4440-001
Lawyers
1976-1989
4/30 4440-001 1977-1978
4/31 4440-001 1971-1973
Lesbians
Box/Folder Accession
5/1 4440-001 1972-1992
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Lesbians
1972-1992
Mattachine Society
Box/Folder Accession
5/2 4440-001
New York City
1972
5/3 4440-001
Niagara Frontier
1972-1973
5/4 4440-001
San Francisco
1970
Box/Folder Accession
5/5 4440-001
Military
1971-1981
5/6 4440-001
National Gay Student Center
1971-1974
5/7-8 4440-001
North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (NACHO)
1968-1970
5/9 4440-001
Officials of Government: Directory Information
1973
5/10 4440-001
ONE Institute, Los Angeles
1967-1973
5/11 4440-001
Personal Rights in Defense and Education (PRIDE), Los Angeles
1966-1968
5/12 4440-001
Playboy "Forum"
1970-1973
5/13 4440-001
Pornography and Censorship
1976-1977
5/14 4440-001 1972
Seattle Police Department
Box/Folder Accession
5/15 4440-001 1972-1981
Box/Folder Accession
5/16 4440-001 1972-1978
5/17 4440-001
Seattle Gay News
1979
5/18 4440-001
Seattle Institute for Sex Therapy, Education, and Research (SISTER)
1976
5/19 4440-001
Seattle Men's Chorus
1990-1992
5/20 4440-001 1971-1973
Society for Individual Rights (SIR)
1962-1970
Box/Folder Accession
6/1-2 4440-001
Society for Individual Rights (SIR)
1962-1970
Box/Folder Accession
6/3 4440-001
Society for Individual Rights, San Francisco
1964-1973
6/4 4440-001
Society of Pat Rocco Enlightened Enthusiasts, Hollywood (SPREE)
1971
6/5-6 4440-001 1972-1976
6/7 4440-001
Student Homophile League, Rutgers University
1973
6/8 4440-001
Tacoma Rap Center
1973
6/9 4440-001
Teachers
1978
6/10 4440-001
Transsexuals
1973-1977
6/11 4440-001
Transvestite Informations Service, Spencer, North Carolina
1971-1972
6/12 4440-001 1977-1978
6/13 4440-001
United Front of Gay Organizations, Chicago
1973
6/14-15 4440-001
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
1971-1976
Box/Folder Accession
6/16 4440-001
Los Angeles
1971
6/17 4440-001
San Francisco
1971-1976
Venereal Disease
Box/Folder Accession
7/1 4440-001
Venereal Disease
1974-1993
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Venereal Disease
1974-1993
Box/Folder Accession
7/2 4440-001
Washington, Western State Hospital, Sexual Offender Program
1971
7/3 4440-001 1977-1978
7/4 4440-001
Western Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations
1967-1968
7/5 4440-001 1971-1973
7/6 4440-001 undated
7/7 4440-001 1975-1978
7/8 4440-001
York University Homophile Association
1970-1971
7/9 4440-001 1973-1983
Box/Folder Accession
7/10 4440-001
News Release
undated
Conference and Convention Files
Box/Folder Accession
7/11 4440-001
"Society for Individual Rights: Conference on Sexual Law Reform," California
1971
7/12 4440-001
Miscellaneous
1967-1975
Box/Folder Accession
7/13 4440-001 1972-1991
7/14 4440-001
Report--Final Report of the Task Force on Homosexuality
1969
7/15-18 4440-001
Speeches and Writings--of Others
1966-1977
8/1 4440-001
Broadcast Editorials
1977-1978
8/2 4440-001
Speaking Engagements
1971-1975
8/3 4440-001
Laws and Ordinances
1971-1985
Legal Pleadings
Box/Folder Accession
8/4 4440-001
Legal Pleadings
1972-1978
Box/Folder Accession
8/5 4440-001
Legislation
1971-1981
8/6 4440-001
Legislative Calendars, Schedules, Minutes
1973
8/7 4440-001
Legislative Reports
1973-1981
8/8 4440-001
Legislative Caucus Reports
1979-1981
8/9 4440-001
Legislative Districts--Maps, Representations
undated
Elections
Box/Folder Accession
8/10 4440-001
Elections
1970-1974
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Elections
1970-1974
Box/Folder Accession
8/11 4440-001
Lobbying Lists
1973-1981
8/12 4440-001
Lobby Financial Reports
1973-1974
8/13 4440-001
Lobbying Materials
1973-1980
9/1 4440-001
Educational Pamphlets
undated
9/2a 4440-001
Calendar
1989
Box
9/2b 4440-001
Mailing Lists
1977
Box/Folder
9/3 4440-001
Bibliographies
1968-1991
9/4 4440-001
Guestbook
1971
9/5-8 4440-001
Clippings
undated
10/1 4440-001
Miscellany
undated
American Civil Liberties Union, Washington
Box/Folder Accession
10/2-3 4440-001
American Civil Liberties Union, Washington
1968-1985
box:oversize
18 4440-001
American Civil Liberties Union, Washington
1968-1985
Box/Folder Accession
10/4 4440-001
Box/Folder Accession
10/5 4440-001 1972-1981
10/6 4440-001 1977-1980
10/7 4440-001 1977
10/8 4440-001 1971-1980
Newsletters--of Others
Box/Folder Accession
10/9a 4440-001
Newsletters--of Others
1972-1980
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Newsletters--of Others
1972-1980
Box Accession
10/9b 4440-001
Lists
1978-1980
Box/Folder
10/10 4440-001
Notes
1980
10/11 4440-001 undated
Democratic Party, Gay Democrats of Greater Seattle
Box/Folder Accession
10/12-13 4440-001
Democratic Party, Gay Democrats of Greater Seattle
1979-1993
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Democratic Party, Gay Democrats of Greater Seattle
1979-1993
Box/Folder Accession
11/1 4440-001
Democratic Party, Harvey Muggy Lesbian/Gay Democratic Organization
1993
Dorian Group
Box/Folder Accession
11/2 4440-001
Historical Features
1979
11/3 4440-001
General Correspondence
1975-1983
11/4 4440-001
Minutes and Agendas
1977-1981
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
11/5-6 4440-001 1980-1985
11/7-10 4440-001 1976-1979
Box/Folder Accession
11/11 4440-001
Ballot--Board of Trustees Election
1976
11/12 4440-001
News Releases
1976-1979
11/13 4440-001
Speeches and Writings
1980-1981
11/14 4440-001
Financial Statements
1980
11/15 4440-001 undated
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
11/16 4440-001
Candidate Survey
1976
Seattle Police Department, Police/Gay Task Force
Box/Folder Accession
11/17 4440-001 1980-1982
The Dorian Group, Legislative Action Committee
Box/Folder Accession
12/1 4440-001 1980-1985
Box/Folder Accession
12/2-4 4440-001
Dorian Society/Seattle Gay Alliance
Box/Folder Accession
12/5 4440-001 1971
12/6 4440-001
Constitution and Bylaws
1967-1970
12/7 4440-001
Outgoing Letters
Scope and Content: Major correspondent: Tim Mayhew.
1971-1975
12/8 4440-001
Intraorganizational Correspondence
Scope and Content: Major correspondent: Herb Lee.
1968-1975
12/9-13, 13/1-2 4440-001
General Correspondence
Scope and Content: Major correspondents: Mike Allen, Ken Gilbert, Herb Lee.
1967-1975
13/3-5 4440-001
Minute Books
1967-1974
13/6-7 4440-001
Minutes and Agenda
1967-1976
13/8 4440-001
Meeting Files
1968-1969
13/9 4440-001
News Release
1974
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
19/1-2 4440-001
Dorian Columns/Columns
1968-1970
19/3-5 4440-001
Columns Northwest
1970-1972
13/10 4440-001
Dorian Society of Seattle
1971
13/11 4440-001
SGA News
1971-1972
13/12 4440-001
Miscellaneous
1968-1971
Box/Folder Accession
13/13 4440-001
Financial Records
1968
13/14 4440-001
Case File--Keith Rhinehart
1970-1972
13/15 4440-001
Radio Transcripts
1974-1985
13/16 4440-001
Tape Recording of Panel Discussion
Scope and Content: Discussion included [Barbara, Fran, Clark, Tim/Ken?].
undated
14/1 4440-001 1971-1977
14/2 4440-001
Ballots
1970
14/3 4440-001
Candidate Surveys
1974
14/4 4440-001
Candidate Ratings
1972-1973
14/5-6 4440-001
Candidate Questionnaires
1971-1977
Reports
Box/Folder Accession
14/7-8 4440-001
Reports
1966-1973
Box/Folder Accession
14/9 4440-001
Health Manual
1970
14/10-11 4440-001
Calenders
1970-1974
14/12 4440-001
Lists
1974
14/13 4440-001
Photocopied Photographs
undated
14/14 4440-001
Notes
undated
14/15 4440-001
Bibliography
1969
14/16 4440-001
Clippings
1970
14/17-18 4440-001
Ephemera
undated
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
14/19 4440-001
Auction
undated
14/20 4440-001
Boat Cruise
1971
14/21 4440-001
Coalition of Gay Organizations, Seattle
1972
15/1 4440-001
Columns Northwest
1969-1971
15/2 4440-001
Complaints to Officials and Press
1971-1972
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Conference on Human Sexuality
1969
Box/Folder
15/3 4440-001
Dance
1968-1970
15/4 4440-001
The Fountain, Seattle
1972
15/5 4440-001
Incorporation
1971-1975
15/6 4440-001
Political Action
1972
15/7 4440-001
Speaking Engagements (Arnold Rustin)
1969-1971
15/8 4440-001
Symposium on Religion and the Homosexual
1968-1970
Box/Folder Accession
15/9-10 4440-001
Board of Directors
1968-1974
Evangelicals Concerned
Box/Folder Accession
15/11 4440-001
Organizational/Historical Features
undated
15/12 4440-001
General Correspondence
1976-1982
15/13 4440-001
Minutes and Agenda
1976
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
15/14 4440-001
Lifelines
1977-1982
15/15 4440-001
Contact
1976-1977
15/15 4440-001
Echoes
1979-1980
15/15 4440-001
Record
1979-1980
Box/Folder Accession
15/16 4440-001
Speeches and Writings
1977
15/17 4440-001
Clippings
1977
16/1 4440-001
Calendars
1977-1982
16/2 4440-001
Notes
1976-1977
16/3 4440-001
Ephemera
1976-1982
Gay Community Center, Seattle
Box/Folder Accession
16/4 4440-001
Organizational/ Historical Features
undated
16/5 4440-001 1971-1979
16/6 4440-001
Legal Documents
1971-1972
16/7 4440-001
Newsletters
1974-1980
16/8 4440-001
Statements, Proposals
1971-1978
Ephemera
Box/Folder Accession
16/9 4440-001 undated
box:oversize
18 4440-001
Ephemera
undated
Box/Folder Accession
16/10 4440-001 1969-1971
Seattle Municipal Elections Committee for Gays (SEAMEC)
Box/Folder Accession
16/11 4440-001
Constitution and Bylaws
1977-1979
16/12 4440-001 1977-1985
16/13 4440-001
Minutes and Agenda
1977-1981
16/14 4440-001 1977
16/15 4440-001
Financial Records
1981
16/16 4440-001
Candidate Ratings
1977-1993
16/17 4440-001
Candidate Surveys
1977-1981
16/18 4440-001
Reports
1977-1979
16/19 4440-001
News Releases
1977-1978
16/20 4440-001
Notes
1981
16/21 4440-001 undated
Box/Folder Accession
16/22, 17/1 4440-001 1970-1977
17/2-4 4440-001
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, Metropolitan Community Church of Seattle
1972-1981

Accession No. 4440-002: Tim Mayhew collection on gay rights / Tim Mayhew papers, 1994-1998Return to Top

.84 cu. ft. (2 boxes)

Scope and Content: Handbills, flyers, and other ephemera related to gay activities and gay organizations, especially in Seattle, Washington, ca 1994-1998, bulk ca 1996-1998.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Source: Tim Mayhew, July 8, 1998.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Accession
1-2 4440-002
Ephemera
1978-1998

Accession No. 4440-003: Tim Mayhew Collection on Gay Rights, circa 1979-1988Return to Top

0.17 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Brochures from the 1979 Initiative 13 campaign and three posters. The posters are from the Seattle Men's Chorus (1988) and the Tacky Tourists of America (undated).

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Tom Hubbard, April 2009

Container(s) Description Dates
VF Accession
Vertical file 4440-003
Brochures
circa 1979
folder:oversize
Oversize folder 4440-003
Posters
circa 1988

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Gay liberation movement--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Gay men--Legal status, laws, etc.--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Gay men--Social conditions
  • Gay men--Societies and clubs
  • Gay men--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Gay rights--Religious aspects
  • Gay rights--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Allen, Mike
  • Gilbert, Ken
  • Lee, Herbert
  • Mayhew, Tim

Corporate Names

  • American Civil Liberties Union of Washington. Committee on Sexual Minorities
  • Dorian Group
  • Dorian Society of Seattle
  • Evangelicals Concerned
  • Gay Community Center (Seattle, Wash.)
  • Harvey Muggy Democrats
  • Seattle Gay Alliance
  • Seattle Municipal Elections Committee for Gays

Geographical Names

  • Seattle (Wash.)--Social conditions