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4 linear feet (in 5 boxes) — 718 MB

Detroit social activist involved in GLBT organizations and activities. The collection consists of correspondence, essays and articles, e-mails, conference materials, organizational records, publications and articles on the subjects of GLBT history, gay civil rights, gay marriage, interracial and interfaith marriage, GLBT families, sexual and gender equality, violence against GLBT persons, religion and homosexuality, gay clergy, clergy with AIDS, and violence against GLBT persons. The collection also includes materials related to the development of public transportation in the Detroit Metropolitan area; election campaigns and vote suppression of ethnic minorities; and U.S. and international politics and economy.

The collection, spanning 40 years of John Kavanaugh's activism, documents both the history and challenges faced by the Michigan and national GLBT community, as well issues facing the area's racial and ethnic minorities. Of most value, the collection provides documentation regarding the position of various denominations on questions of homosexuality and gay and interracial marriage; racial and ethnic discrimination, and voters' suppression based on race and ethnicity. Kavanaugh's correspondence includes letters and hard copies of e-mails, many of them sent to individual clergy and to groups of citizens. His writings are sometimes represented in form of a self-published newsletter or e-newsletter (e.g. The bead reader and The missing lines). The collection contains a great number of non-mainstream publications, as well as articles and clippings from obscure and rare periodicals. The collection also includes a significant amount of material on the subject of public transit in Michigan, specifically, in the city of Detroit.

The collection is organized into five series: Issues; Black and White Men Together; Religion; Public Transit; and Digital materials.

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Issues

The Issues series contains Kavanaugh's correspondence, essays and articles (written by Kavanaugh and others), materials of organizations and non-mainstream media items collected by Kavanaugh over the period of 40 years. The series also contains issues of Kavanaugh's self-published periodical The missing lines and correspondence related to this publication. Additional issues of The missing lines can be found in electronic format in the Electronic materials series. The majority of materials in this series relate to the subject of history of the GLBT movement, homosexuality, gay marriage and the church's position on homosexuality, as well as voters suppression based on racial discrimination. Also included here are selected records of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and the New Center North housing community in Detroit. In addition, this series contains an audiocassette with music from an undated Gay Arts Workshop.