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Title: Men at a gay information fair
Contributor: Ted Sahl (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photograph shows (left-to-right) Bill Welch, and Ross Parlette standing at the DIGNITY booth at the Lambda Association community information fair, 1980. Bill is handing a Ross a piece of paper. The sign behind them reads: "DIGNITY, mission valley gay Catholic men & women and their friends".
Written on verso: "Lambda sponsor. Gay Information Fair. SJ City College 1980. DIGNITY. Left to right Bill Welch & Ross Parlette". DIGNITY/USA is a national lay movement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Catholics, their families, and their friends. The DIGNITY/San Jose chapter was formed in 1976 and ceased operations in 1982. From Ted Sahl, "From closet to community: a quest for gay & lesbian liberation in San Jose & Santa Clara County," (2002), p.108-110.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
4.8 x 5.7 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_919
filename: sahl_religion_002
islandora: 80_919
Language: English
Subject: Catholicism
Gay men
Religious groups
Religious tolerance
Gays--Religious life
Dignity, inc
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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