Ronald Gold Papers

This collection includes Ronald Gold’s written and email correspondence with a number of organizations (PFLAG, media outlets, public relations firms, governmental bodies) offering and exchanging opinions about a number of policy issues confronting the American gay and lesbian community in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. These issues include bans on military service, sex education, sodomy laws, marriage, representation of gays in the media, psychiatry’s treatment of homosexuality, and immigration laws. There are some speeches he wrote for others. There are also a number of literary and creative writings, including a translation of a text by Baudelaire. There are some reviews of theater and dance performances. Collection also includes pamphlets and guidebooks (some written or co-written by Gold, others that Gold’s work counters) about issues such as the portrayal of gays in the media and sex education.