Zone d'identification
Cote
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
Kevin M. Bailey Collection
Date(s)
- 1976-1990 (Création/Production)
Importance matérielle
1 box
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.
Mode de classement
The majority of this collection is organized thematically.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Accès physique
These materials are stored offsite and require additional time for retrieval.
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Instruments de recherche
Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Accroissements
Sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
Descriptions associées
Élément de notes
Notes spécialisées
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Zone du contrôle de la description
Règles ou conventions
Sources utilisées
Note de l'archiviste
Finding Aid Authors: Hillary Anderson, Fall 2014.
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
- Texas A & M University (Sujet)