An IU ‘70s Lesbian Activist: Maida Tilchen’s Collection Comes Out
Sometimes when working in an archives, you come across someone in a collection that you really connect to and admire; for me, one of these individuals is Maida Tilchen. Maida’s a Long Island-raised lesbian activist who came to Bicknell, Indiana as a community organizer for VISTA, a federal anti-poverty program. ... Read more An IU ‘70s Lesbian Activist: Maida Tilchen’s Collection Comes Out
![A spread of an open journal, (recto) photograph of Steven LeBlanc (left) and Jerry T. Boyd (right) standing together indoors and (verso) passage in handwritten cursive script that reads “getting out of St. Louis and to San Francisco [,] Steve wrote me a postcard saying ‘Happy at last’ [,] Jerry and Steve, July ‘94.”](https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/boyd5.jpg)