Pride week, 2008 - 2009

The variety of documents within this collection represent the history of the Pride movement in Athens and at Ohio University and the Pride Center (originally until 2024 the LGBT Center) including historic materials from several related student, alumni, University employees, and community organizations.

Entire newspapers and newspaper clippings, informative and educational literature, administrative documents, and a wide and numerable assortment of colorful posters are major contents of the collection. But, more importantly, a researcher sorting through this materials carefully will discover the beginning and evolution of the Pride movement in Athens and at the University, and the many, many people who helped to change hearts and minds and thereby change local culture to one of more acceptance at first and then to celebration of the existence and the unique diversity within the culture that resulted in so many letters being added over the years to the original LGBT acronym.

Materials include administrative documents, posters, flyers, newspapers, magazines, pictures, cards, and other miscellaneous documents. The documents range in dates from approximately 1972 to 2013, with the vast majority of the collection originating from the 1990s on.