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Arranged into the following subseries: Administrative Files, Correspondence, Drafts and Proofs, Publicity, and Research Files. These divisions and their internal arrangement are further described below. The largest group, the research files (36 boxes), documents Sears' work on the book through correspondence, clippings and articles files, interviews, memoirs, oral histories, regional material from southern states, files on activist groups, memorabilia, and other material. The research files also house a set of diaries written by a gay youth from 1973-1993, and a large component of materials, chiefly correspondence, written by Jack Nichols and Lige Clarke. Other material on Nichols can be found in the Jack Nichols Papers Series.

A variety of materials that document the organization, meetings, conventions and various financial and legal activities of the Mattachine Society. Files are divided into alphabetical and chronological runs of folders. The alphabetical folders reflect a broad range of topics, including all of the following: balance sheets and other budget activities; chapters of the Society in various cities; FBI files; related groups such as One, Inc. and Pan-Graphic Press; and the work of various committees, especially the Publications Committee. The chronological run of folders consists almost entirely of minutes, agendas, and related documents from meetings and conventions. This group of folders contains a mix of documents that were produced by individual chapters as well as national conventions of the Society, w/some individual folders containing items from multiple sources; all are interfiled chronologically.