"Straight But Not Narrow", undated

Item — Box: 7

Identifier: RG.0303.010

Button - "Straight But Not Narrow"

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Scope and Contents

From the Record Group:

Records of the Office of LGBTQI Life, contains correspondence, invoices and receipts, meeting notes, newsclippings, pamphlets, photographs, promotional materials, publications, a scrapbook, special formats, and training documents related to the Office of LGBTQI Life, the K.C. Potter Center, the Vanderbilt Lambda Association, and the LGBTQI+ community at Vanderbilt University.

From the Record Group:

Special formats include banners, buttons, compact discs, digitized records, a plaque, posters, a t-shirt, and tri-fold poster boards. Posters include small posters (roughly 11x17 inches) and large posters (roughly 22x28 inches).

From the Record Group:

Some unique components of the collection include an autographed photograph and posters; a scrapbook; a large painted banner; a pledge education manual for Delta Lambda Phi Social Fraternity; LGBTQI-themed buttons; and two issues of Out & About Nashville. Researchers may also be interested in viewing the photographs and posters related to student protests on campus to make administrators aware that students want more gender-inclusive bathrooms.

Acronyms

From the Record Group:

GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender)
LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, plus)
LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex)
LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, plus)
MCMW (Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center)
PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
TGNB (transgender nonbinary)
TLGB (Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual)
VU (Vanderbilt University)
VUMC (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

From the Record Group:

Some of these records are digitized and are available for viewing on JSTOR at the JSTOR K.C. Potter Center Records collection.

Dates

Creation: undated

Access and Restrictions

All university archives from the past 40 years are closed to all but the creating office, department, or group. The Board of Trust, General Counsel, and the Chancellor’s Office are exempt from this rule. The Office of LGBTQI Life records may still be used for research, but the Office of LGBTQI Life or General Counsel must grant permission for others to view restricted records. Please contact specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu for additional information.

The majority of this collection is open for research. Some of these records are digitized and are available for viewing on JSTOR at https:// www.jstor.org/site/vanderbilt/lgbtq-collections/kcpottercenterrecords-34689961/.

Partial Extent

From the Record Group: 57 Linear Feet (This includes eight Hollinger boxes, one archival box, and one Map Case drawer. The boxes are arranged by size - Boxes 1-5 are letter-sized Hollinger boxes with paper ephemera, Box 6 is a flat Hollinger box with small posters, Box 7 is a flat Hollinger box with artifacts, Box 8 is a flat archival box, and Box 9 is a letter-sized Hollinger box with photographs. The Map Case drawer holds oversize posters.) ; Boxes 1-5 and box 9 are letter-sized Hollinger boxes; box 6 is a flat Hollinger box (19.75" x 13.8" x 1.75") with small posters, box 7 is a flat Hollinger box (17" x 12" x 3") with artifacts, and box 8 is a flat archival box (20.5" x 16.5" x 5.25").

Partial Extent

From the Record Group: 158.51 Megabytes (This includes 58 photographs on two compact discs as well as 1 slideshow on a third disc. The discs are held in Box 1.)