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[Press Release: Sodomy News]

Description: A press release from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force announcing the organization's plans to make 1990 the year that the LGBT community will fight to repeal and reform sodomy laws in the United States.
Date: January 3, 1990
Creator: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Clippings: Rainbow Flag]

Description: A series of newspaper clippings about California Governor, Courken George Deukmejian Jr., taking down the rainbow flag from the capitol after approving its presence for National Coming Out Day. The articles also discuss gubernatorial candidate, Pete Wilson, who gladly accepted a donation from Gay PAC, then proceeded to say derogatory statements about LGBT persons at one of his campaign fundraisers.
Date: October 18, 1990
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Press Release: Pete Wilson "Betrayal"]

Description: A press release from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force discussing how California Governor, Pete Wilson, vetoed a bill that would ban discrimination in the work place because of an employee's sexuality.
Date: October 1991
Creator: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Media Release & Legal Resolution: LGBT Veterans]

Description: A media release followed by an approved resolution. The media release from National Coming Out Day announced that the rainbow flag would fly at every state capitol from Santa Fe to Sacramento. The resolution was from National Security and Foreign Affairs that approves state departments denying homosexuals the right to serve in the military.
Date: October 16, 1990
Creator: National Coming Out Day
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News release: Governor Williams Weld swears in nation's first "Governor's commission on gay and lesbian youth"]

Description: A news release from the Massachusetts Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights discussing the Governor of Massachusetts swearing in the nation's first commission to address LGBT issues within the youth, such as LGBT suicide and homelessness.
Date: June 11, 1992
Creator: Massachusetts Coaltion for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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