Series V. FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVISM, 1970-1978 (#13.8-16.9, F+D.3)

Series V, FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVISM, 1970-1978 (#13.8-16.9, F+D.3), includes articles, meeting minutes, organizing files, correspondence, and publicity related to Gabriner's work with the group Georgians for the ERA and her lesbian feminist political activism in Atlanta more generally. Gabriner was involved in the founding of Georgians for the ERA, and worked to gain the state's passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Her notes and minutes from meetings reveal allegiances between groups and organizing tactics considered and rejected. When the National Organization for Women organized a travel boycott of states that had yet to pass the amendment, Georgians for the ERA disagreed with the boycott, and tried to articulate other stances that were more palatable. For example, before the 1978 Conference on Women and the Law, Gabriner canvassed local restaurants and businesses to create a list of "ERA supporting" options for conference goers. There is a lot of overlap of material in all folders in this series about the Equal Rights Amendment. Several files on International Women's Year and the National Women's Confernce in Houston in 1977 track Gabriner's work to ensure there would be lesbian delegates at the conference and represented in the program. Other material also documents Gabriner's political work linking the gay and women's liberation movements: she made sure that the Equal Rights Amendment was discussed at the Southeast Gay Conference, for example. The series is arranged alphabetically.