SSC-MS-00711
1940 - 2012
Virginia (Ginny) Apuzzo entered a convent at the age of 26. After leaving, she came out publicly as a lesbian, and dove head first into movement politics.
SSC-MS-00637
1928 - 2024
Mary Daly was a radical lesbian feminist philosopher, theologian, author, lecturer, and professor of religious and women’s studies, who referred to herself as a Positively Revolting Hag.
SSC-MS-00848
2014 - 2018
The Rev. Dr. Chris Davies is a white, queer clergyperson and a member of the United Church of Christ. Davies created the Queer Clergy Trading Cards in 2014 in order to highlight queer members of the clergy and to humanize them and their roles in Christian ministry. The Rev. Dr. Chris Davies queer clergy trading cards and related material document Davies’ work in highlighting queer members of the clergy through the Queer Clergy Trading Cards and some of her ministerial work in the 2010s.
SSC-MS-00497
1938 - 2003
Jane Garrett was a Priest involved with the Episcopal Church. Approximately half of collection consists of files pertaining to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, notably the struggle within the Episcopal Church to come to terms with these issues.
SSC-MS-00680
1960 - 2011
Rosemary Keefe (1940-2012) was a feminist scholar and pioneer in the field of women’s studies as well as a social justice activist. She was a former Catholic nun who left her order, married, had a daughter, divorced and ultimately came out as a lesbian.
SSC-MS-00578
1893 - 2013
Kathleen O'Shea is an author, Lesbian activist, Social reform advocate and was a Catholic nun. Her mother, Sarah Alida Conde O'Shea, grew up in a working-class Catholic family in Kansas.