University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
The University of Montana—Missoula
Missoula, MT 59812
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Mss
796
Roscoe,
Will
Will Roscoe papers
1975-2006
0.2 linear feet
35 digital files (197 MB)
This collection includes the
Lambda newsletter published at The University of
Montana-Missoula from 1975-1976, a scrapbook of Lambda activities, a 1976
interview with founding member, Will Roscoe, and Roscoe's undergraduate papers
papers relevant to the life and challenges of being homosexual as a student and
citizen in the 1970s.
Materials are inEnglish
Digital files require software that can open and read Portable Document Format files and JPEG image files
Biographical Note
Will Roscoe grew up in Missoula, Montana. In 1975 he helped found the
Lambda Alliance at the University of Montana-Missoula. It was Montana's first
LGBT organization. He served as an intern at the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force in 1976, and the following year he formed the Oregon Gay Alliance, a
statewide coalition of LGBT groups. After relocating to San Francisco in 1978,
he organized a successful campaign to obtain United Way membership for the
Pacific Center for Human Growth in Berkeley, the first LGBT social service
agency in the nation to receive that status. He subsequently worked with Harvey
Milk in the "No on 6" campaign against the Briggs Initiative. After attending
the first Radical Faerie gathering in Arizona in 1979, he became colleagues
with Harry Hay, co-founding Nomenus, which operates a LGBT retreat center in
southern Oregon.
In 1995 he edited and published a selection of writings by Hay, the
"father" of the gay liberation movement. Roscoe's first book,
The Zuni Man-Woman, received the Margaret Mead Award of
the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied
Anthropology, as well as the Lambda Literary Award for gay men's nonfiction. In
2003, he received a Monette-Horowitz Achievement Award for research and
scholarship combating homophobia. His book,
Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love,
received a Lambda Literary Award in 2005.
This collection includes paper and digital copies of the
Lambda newsletter published at The University of
Montana-Missoula from 1975-1976, a scrapbook of Lambda activities with
clippings, letters, and photographs, and a 1976 interview with founding member,
Will Roscoe. The collection also includes digital copies of Will Roscoe's
undergraduate papers relevant to the life and challenges of being homosexual as
a student and citizen in the 1970s. Also included are digital copies of Will
Roscoe's high school history paper about Frank Little, press surrounding a
later plagiarized version, and a 2006 article about Frank Little by Roscoe.
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of
Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and
The University of Montana-Missoula.
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and
any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to The University of
Missoula-Montana.
[Name of document or photograph number], Will Roscoe Papers, Archives
and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of
Montana-Missoula.
Will Roscoe created and/or held the materials prior to donation.
Donated by Will Roscoe, May 2008.
Print materials were placed into folders by the processor. Digital files received on CDRom were transferred to local storage.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Roscoe,
Will--Archives
University of Montana--Missoula--Alumni and alumnae
University
of Montana--Missoula--Students--Societies, etc.
Lambda
Alliance (University of Montana)
Gay college
students--Montana--Missoula
Gay college
students--Montana--Missoula--Societies, etc.
Civic
Activism
Colleges and Universities
Gays
and Lesbians
Montana
1/1
List of Missoula Gay History
Materials donated by Will Roscoe with brief background on "Gay Liberation in
Missoula, 1975-1976"
undated
A digital version of this file is available.
1/2
Lambda newsletter
1975-1976
A digital version of the newsletters are available.
1/3
Summary of Lambda
activities
1975-1976
1/4
Lambda scrapbook of clippings,
photos, and letters
1975-1976
A digital version of the scrapbook is available.
1/5
Will Roscoe interview
transcript
1976
electronic file
Undergraduate paper titled “15,000
Niggers or Homophobia in Missoula”
1975
electronic file
Undergraduate paper titled “Let My
People Come Out: Meanings of Homosexuality”
1975
electronic file
Undergraduate paper titled “A
Project for the Creation of a Sexual Minorities Counseling Service”
1975
electronic file
Undergraduate paper titled “Lambda
Help Line”
1976
electronic file
“Sometimes I Still Feel…Like a
Freak, A Collection of Writings”
1975
electronic file
“The Murder of Frank Little: ‘An
Injury to One is an Injury to All,’” a paper written to fulfill a high school
history requirement
1973
electronic file
Various articles concerning the
plagiarized Frank Little edition, including October 8, 2006
Butte Standard article by Will Roscoe (reprinted in
the
Helena Independent)
2003-2006