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Texas Gay/Lesbian Taskforce
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November 14, 1983

Alan James Weiser
Michael J. Gonzalez
Gays of Angelo State
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Dear Alan and Michael,

We are so pleased to hear about your organization of a group in San Angelo, and are including a number of pamphlets and publications which we hope you will find useful. They are of four kinds:

1) Those you may want to make available to your members and to other interested persons. We sent 20 copies of these. If you find them useful, we can provide bulk copies cheaply, or to save on postage and hassle can provide clear masters so they can be printed locally. (At our local print shop they cost about 6¢ each.) These include the “About Coming Out,” “Answers to a Parent’s Questions,” and “Straight Talk,” which provide a great deal of information.

2) More specialized publications, which you will want to put into your file to have available when needed. Sometimes I sent several copies, sometimes fewer. You may want to run off duplicates of some of these, too. We have other materials on specialized subjects such as employment, AIDS, education, etc.--if you have a special need, let us know.

3) Material relating to a speaker’s bureau. You didn’t ask about this, but I was getting it together because of requests from College Station and Lubbock, so thought I might as well include a copy, since your group will probably be asked to provide speakers for classes as soon as there is publicity about the group.

4) Material about the Task Force: a number of copies of our latest News, which I hope you will distribute to people who would be interested, a few back issues with information of use, and some descriptive sheets, including the newly-revised Bylaws.

I don’t know how familiar you may be with the state-wide gay and lesbian organizations in Texas. They have discussed a cooperative brochure describing themselves, but since it’s not available yet, I’ll summarize the picture as it exists now. There are six state-wide groups whose interests and coverage vary greatly, and which have been careful to organize as not to compete with each other.

TGLTF, the oldest one, has reorganized in the past few years as an exclusively educational and charitable groups with tax-deductible status.The October News has a list of some projects we are working on; the News itself is another, making information about local issues and groups available state-wide and carrying analytical articles of interest to Texans, some of which are later reprinted separately.

The political scene is covered by two groups, Lesbian/Gay Rights Advocates (see Feb. News) which hires the lobbyist when the legislature is in session, and plans a program of state-wide political education for the primaries; and the Lesbian/Gay Democrats of Texas (see Feb. News) which works within the party and has been responsible for a resolution to repeal 21.06 at the state Democratic convention in 1980,