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--by Nick Skaggs and David Staniunas

This Spring, PHS received 48 cubic feet of original More Light Presbyterians (MLP) records from Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives. The records, which date back to the organization’s founding in 1974 are now processed and accessible to the public for the first time.

What were the records of the chief grassroots LGBTQIA+ advocacy organization in the PC(USA) doing at Rutgers in the first place? At...

On Tuesday, March 29, in the late afternoon, a very exciting shipment arrived at the PHS building on Lombard Street: 64 boxes of records of More Light Presbyterians (MLP) records.

Several of our staff assisted Records Archivist David Staniunas in getting the five-dozen boxes of archival materials into the building. At the request of More Light Presbyterians leadership and with the enthusiastic support of the records’ original donor, Jim Anderson, the records made their way to the Presbyterian Historical Society from Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives...