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          "caption": "I DEMAND RECOGNITION sticker",
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        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "An Open Door to Love Timeline",
          "text": "CollectionBuilder-GH is a template for creating small digital collection exhibits on GitHub Pages designed for teaching digital library skills"
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          "caption": "The Open Door - Vol. 1 No. 1",
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          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
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          "day": "04",
          "year": "1987"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "The Open Door - Vol. 1 No. 1",
          "text": "The very first issue of the Open Door newspaper from February, 1987."
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          "caption": "The Open Door - Vol. 1 No. 2",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol002",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
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          "day": "01",
          "year": "1987"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "The Open Door - Vol. 1 No. 2",
          "text": "The second issue of the Open Door newspaper from March-April, 1987."
        }
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        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol003.pdf",
          "caption": "The Open Door - Grand Opening Letter from the Editor",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol003",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
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          "day": "04",
          "year": "1987"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "The Open Door - Grand Opening Letter from the Editor",
          "text": "The Open Door's editor, Kevin Richey, pens an announcement letter for the first issue of the publication."
        }
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          "caption": "The Open Door - Front page in the Herald - Telephone Newspaper ",
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          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
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          "day": "23",
          "year": "1987"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "The Open Door - Front page in the Herald - Telephone Newspaper ",
          "text": "A front page article about *The Open Door's* first release in Bloomington's daily evening newspaper *The Herald - Telephone*."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol008.pdf",
          "caption": "Ad-hoc Committee Position Statement on a Gay and Lesbian Resource Center (1976)",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol008",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "03",
          "day": "04",
          "year": "1976"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Ad-hoc Committee Position Statement on a Gay and Lesbian Resource Center (1976)",
          "text": "This letter details what the Ad-hoc committee (comprised of faculty and students) identified as the proper steps to address sexual and gender-based discrimination on campus. They primarily insist on the establishment of a \"Center for Gay and Lesbian Concerns\" and highlight Indiana University's role as a force for social change. There is a notable reference to the revision of Indiana state penal code regarding sodomy: homosexual acts between consenting adults in private was decriminalized in Indiana as of 1977-07-01. The formal opening of a center for LGBTQ+ students would happen nearly two decades later."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol010.jpg",
          "caption": "Indianapolis \"Diversity Center\" opens (1995)",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol010",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "03",
          "day": "01",
          "year": "1995"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Indianapolis \"Diversity Center\" opens (1995)",
          "text": "Reporting in the Indianapolis Sta regarding the opening of the then-called \"Diversity Center.\" "
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol013.pdf",
          "caption": "News Horizons vol. 1 no. 1",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol013",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "08",
          "day": "18",
          "year": "1975"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "News Horizons vol. 1 no. 1",
          "text": "The first publication of the News Horizons newsletter."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol015.jpg",
          "caption": "News Horizons vol. 1 no. 3",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol015",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "10",
          "day": "15",
          "year": "1975"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "News Horizons vol. 1 no. 3",
          "text": "The News Horizons volume 1 issue 3 newsletter."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol016.jpg",
          "caption": "News Horizons vol. 2 no. 3",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol016",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "03",
          "day": "12",
          "year": "1976"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "News Horizons vol. 2 no. 3",
          "text": "The News Horizons volume 2 issue 3 newsletter."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol018.jpg",
          "caption": "Patrons expelled from bar for same-sex dancing",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol018",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "02",
          "day": "11",
          "year": "1977"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Patrons expelled from bar for same-sex dancing",
          "text": "A group of patrons were expelled from Backstreet Bar (formerly located at 430 E. Kirkwood Ave) for same-sex dancing in the spring of 1976. The Bloomington Human Rights Council ruled in December 1976 that the establishment was not in violation of the group's human rights as they were dismissed for obscenity (as opposed to explicitly for their sexual orientation). A group of 25 locals gathered in Dunkirk Square after the ruling and called for a boycott of Backstreet Bar."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol019.pdf",
          "caption": "Gay Liberation Front Valentines Day Dance (1975)",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol019",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "02",
          "day": "21",
          "year": "1975"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Gay Liberation Front Valentines Day Dance (1975)",
          "text": "The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) organized a Valentines Day \"Coming-out\" party at the Holiday Inn West in Bloomington. "
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol023.pdf",
          "caption": "Lesbopalooza (1997)",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol023",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "10",
          "day": "14",
          "year": "1997"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Lesbopalooza (1997)",
          "text": "Several Lesbopalooza events were organized at IU-Bloomington in the 1990s and early 200s. The 1997 edition was held at Collins Center and saw 400-500 showgoers. The most recent edition was held in 2008."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol024.pdf",
          "caption": "Groups gather in opposition to anti-gay demonstrations.",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol024",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "06",
          "day": "10",
          "year": "2002"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Groups gather in opposition to anti-gay demonstrations.",
          "text": "Protestors gathered at Bloomington Bagel Company to express concern and outrage at anti-LGBT groups holding several protests in downtown Bloomington that same week."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol025.pdf",
          "caption": "Indiana Cares honors Bloomington Couple. 1996.",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol025",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "01",
          "day": "01",
          "year": "1996"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Indiana Cares honors Bloomington Couple. 1996.",
          "text": "A Bloomington couple, Doris and Bob Fox, were honored by AIDS advocacy group Indiana Cares. Their son, Tom, died of AIDS-related complications in 1989, and the couple would go on to lead the development of AIDS groups and champion acceptance and action among parents of homosexual children."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol026.pdf",
          "caption": "Lobbying against partner policy for unmarried couples",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol026",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "05",
          "day": "20",
          "year": "1997"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Lobbying against partner policy for unmarried couples",
          "text": "Controversial lobbyist Eric Miller visited Bloomington to speak to residents about the revisions to the state partner policy. The change allowed for state benefits to be allotted to folks in domestic partnerships. Concerned Bloomington residents from a variety of LGBTQ+-friendly groups showed up donning pink balloons in protest of Miller's political agenda."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol030.jpg",
          "caption": "GLB Office viewing party for Ellen DeGeneres' coming out",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol030",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "04",
          "day": "30",
          "year": "1997"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "GLB Office viewing party for Ellen DeGeneres' coming out",
          "text": "The GLB Office at IU (now called the LGBTQ+ Culture Center) held an event for Ellen DeGeneres' coming-out on her ABC Sitcom Ellen. The event was held at Bloomington Bagel Company."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/objects/aol037.jpg",
          "caption": "Gay Coffeehouse",
          "link": "https://echurstmls.github.io/ils652/item.html?id=aol037",
          "credit": "An Open Door to Love"
        },
        "start_date": { 
          "month": "04",
          "day": "25",
          "year": "1975"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Gay Coffeehouse",
          "text": "A weekly gay coffeehouse was coordinated with University Lutheran Church in 1975. Cofounders Donna Reeves and Collin Schoweyer set out to establish a casual and accessible community space for gay-identified locals. "
        }
      }
    ]
}