[Letter from Edra Bogle to Chuck Patrick and This Week in Texas, January 7, 1987]

Title

[Letter from Edra Bogle to Chuck Patrick and This Week in Texas, January 7, 1987]

Identifier

MSS380_letter_19870107

Type

Letters

Manuscripts

Date

1/7/1987

Description

Letter from Edra Bogle to Chuck Patrick and This Week in Texas regarding their recent story on the November board meeting for the Lesbian/Gay Democrats of Texas (LGDT). She spoke of the amount of time she and Tom Cain spent in Austin speaking to Democratic legislators but that the board voted to abandon the program entirely. She states that she does not want to be associated with a group that would do this. The letter appears to be incomplete as it ends abruptly with no signature.

Originally formed as the Texas Gay Task Force, the TGLTF was the first statewide gay/lesbian organization in Texas. Organized in 1973 for the purpose of planning annual conferences (until 1990), the TGLTF served as the parent organization for the Lesbian/Gay Democrats of Texas and the Lesbian/Gay Rights Advocates. CCd to Floyd Chapman.

Subject

Texas Gay / Lesbian Task Force

Bogle, Edra

Patrick, Chuck

Format

1 pgs.

Language

en

Rights

Materials may not be used without permission. For more information, contact us at (940) 898-3751 or womenshistory@twu.edu.

Rights Holder

Woman's Collection, Texas Woman's University, P.O. Box 425528, Denton, TX 76204

https://twu.edu/library/womans-collection/

Is Part Of

Texas Gay / Lesbian Task Force Records, 1970s-1991.

Accrual Method

Gift

Provenance

Bogle, Edra

extracted text

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This Week in Texas
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Attention Chuck Patrick

Dear TWT:

Recently This Week in Texas carried a news story on the November Board Meeting of the Lesbian/Gay Democtrats of Texas held in El Paso. as Co-Chair LGDT, I would like to amend and correct the story you carried.

In the fall of 1986, LGDT received its first real recognition as a group from the Texas Democratic Party when Chairman Bob Slagle arranged for his office to set up appointments for LGDT representatives to meet and talk about our issues with every Democrat in the Texas Legislature, and to give them materials about gays and lesbians. Former Board Member Tom Cain and myself spent several weeks in Austin (at our own expense) during the special session talking to people from areas with no organized gay groups. After the special session, we were told by party people to wait till after the election to talk to the rest of the legislators. These were largely from those cities with gay organizations, who were to be approached at home by their local people.

At the El Paso meeting, the Board initially voted to abandon this program. I did not want to be associated with such a move because it would look so bad to the Party officials; nor could I lead a group which would drop a worthy program it had been enthusiastic about during two previous Board meetings.

[only the first page of this letter was available]