@article{885751, note = {Date range of documents: 1913-1996.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/885751}, title = {Randy Burns papers.}, abstract = {The Randy Burns Papers, which cover the years 1968 to 2002, include private and professional papers, clippings, correspondence, and research collected by Burns, a Native American activist and co-founder of Gay American Indians (GAI). The collection contains extensive materials on AIDs and associated outreach programs, as well as documents related to the berdache, or two-spirit (third gender) tradition of Native American peoples. The collection also features work by and about a number of individuals associated with GAI, including Mohawk poet Maurice Kenny, anthropologist Walter Williams, and scholar Will Roscoe. Burns's efforts as an activist are represented here as well, via academic papers, correspondence and memos, fact sheets and statistics, flyers, meeting minutes, newsletters, programs, and reports documenting his work in the Native American and larger LGBTQ communities.}, recid = {885751}, pages = {1 online resource (45 manuscripts) :}, }