FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Important recent histories

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

A very important accomplishment by an FUS member.

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: September 22, 2009 5:08:30 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
>
> Two important books have now been published, and the University of  
> Minnesota has posted them in online and downloadable pdf format. The  
> key person in this process is humanist activist Matt Stark, who was  
> Executive Director of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union in 1970  
> when an American first occurred.
>
> Student of this large public university elected Jack Baker as an  
> openly gay student body president. This event, following Stonewall  
> the year before, and subsequent lawsuit to obtain marriage license  
> for Baker and his partner, began the still-continuing struggle to  
> achieve marriage equality. In 1981, the Minnesota Gay and Lesbian  
> Legal Assistance was founded.
>
> The Quatrefoil Library, where the documents for these important  
> studies are housed, is the largest of three US collections of GLBTQ  
> materials. These first two volumes are published by the Friends of  
> the Bill of Rights Foundation.
>
> The two books can be found at
>
> http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/quatrefoil.pdf
>
> http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/mnglla.pdf
>
> These events so clearly illustrate the promotion and implementation  
> of humanist values that they deserve wide distribution, reading, and  
> discussion.
>
> Bob