Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Kevin M. Bailey Collection
Date(s)
- 1976-1990 (Creation)
Extent
1 box
Name of creator
Biographical history
Kevin Bailey started out as a Chemistry major at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in the mid-1980s. He was elected secretary of Gay Student Services (GSS) in 1984 and later became the organization’s historian and archivist. In the late 1980s, Kevin took some time off from school to work and travel, returning to complete his MIS degree in 1993. After the 1976 GSS lawsuit for campus recognition bounced through the courts and the District Court’s pro-TAMU decision was overturned, the case in August 1984 was bound for the Supreme Court. In the wake of the Appeals Court’s decision to overturn the District Court’s ruling, Bailey, and newly elected GSS president, Marco Roberts, mobilized a publicity campaign for the organization. GSS had grown and matured by the mid-eighties with most of its founding members graduated. Internal tensions and personality conflicts were rife in the GSS during this time.
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Scope and content
This collection covers A&M Gay Student Services (GSS), Gayline, GSS Roommate Locator Service, and campus attitudes toward homosexuality and the LGBT community at the university before and after A&M officially recognized GSS as a campus organization.
Some material dates back to 1976, while other documents go as late as 1990. The bulk of the contents are from 1983-1986, being the period when the GSS lawsuit for recognition was ongoing to when litigation ended in July 1985, giving GSS official recognition. Media coverage over the issue of gay and lesbian students at A&M heated up in the fall of 1984 as GSS awaited a new court ruling. Most of the collection is local, given its subject, but also included are regional LGBT news and national entertainment news regarding LGBT persons.
System of arrangement
The majority of this collection is organized thematically.
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Physical access
These materials are stored offsite and require additional time for retrieval.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
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Finding aids
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Sources used
Archivist's note
Finding Aid Authors: Hillary Anderson, Fall 2014.
Access points
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Place access points
Name access points
- Texas A & M University (Subject)