Talk:Corvallis, Oregon State University gay activism 1969-2004
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LaurenGutterman said ...
11:30, 1 February 2010 (EST)
This is a great start. Keep up the good work!
Corvallis said ...
17:13, 4 July 2010 (EST)
W. Dorr Legg (1904-1994) was an assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at Oregon State University from 1936 to 1942. Dorr Legg, whose birth name is William Lambert, was a founder of the "homophile" activism movement. He was also a founder of what was to become the present day gay Republican Log Cabin Club. (Note: various historical accounts disagree whether this was the University of Oregon in Eugene or Oregon State University in Corvallis. The confusion is likely because OSU has changed its name several times over the years and one page in Legg's FBI investigation file erroneously refers to U of O when the context of the memo is clearly referring to Corvallis and not Eugene. Numerous other pages in the FBI investigation file clearly refer to Oregon State College (a former name of Oregon State University) in Corvallis. Historians from out-of-state often confuse the two colleges.)
