Inventory of the Triangle Community Works Records, 1974-2008

This collection (Accession 2009-0276) includes historical documents from several groups in Triangle Community Works!, including ASPYN, RRNGLE, and the Gay and Lesbian Helpline. Materials date from the 1970s to 2008.

Although it is a small part of the overall collection, the TCW! Series offers a helpful overview of the various programs within Triangle Community Works. Materials about the TCW! organization date from the 1990s through 2007. The TCW! materials include administrative files, such as meeting minutes, agendas, flyers, and publicity. Another notable part of the series is the TCW! financial files, which detail the organization's fiscal operations, including taxes, investments, and bank statements. The remainder of this series consists of press releases, newsletters, and ephemera from various events, such as pride marches. Also included is a binder of materials from Coalition 807, which predated Triangle Community Works! in the early 1990s, and newsletters from OutRight!, another organization within TCW!.

The RRNGLE Resource Library Series (Raleigh Religious Network for Gay and Lesbian Equality) makes up the majority of the Triangle Community Works Records. It consists of research and subject files collected and maintained by RRNGLE. Files are held within a variety of sub-series, including Religious Groups, Media coverage, Gay and Lesbian Organizations, and General subject files on topics from gay marriage to ordination of gay clergy. RRNGLE materials date largely from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, with some materials from the 1970s, but nothing post-1995.

The ASPYN Series (A Safer Place Youth Network) includes materials dating from both before and after the group joined Triange Community Works!. Files predating TCW! include administrative and board materials, such as annual reports and meeting minutes. TCW! era materials include adult volunteer training manuals and policies, information for teenagers interested in joining ASPYN, evaluations by participants in ASPYN meetings and programs, and ASPYN call logs and group facilitator logs from the mid-1990s.

The Helpline Series includes materials ranging from the inception and formation of the Gay and Lesbian Helpline in 1991, through call logs from as recent as 2008. The series consists of administrative files, research articles on gay and lesbian hotlines, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters and publications, and materials from the merging of the Helpline into the TCW! organization. The majority of the series, however, consists of the logbooks and call logs kept by volunteers tracking the calls received at the Helpline. This series has restrictions: Helpline logs are closed for five years following the year of the calls (for example, logs from 2005 are closed until 2011). Please see Research Services or the Bingham Center staff with questions about this restriction.

• Triangle Community Works!
• Helplines.
• Gay youth.
• Gay teenagers--Raleigh (N.C.)
• Gay community--Raleigh (N.C.)
• Gays--Religious life.
• Religion and culture--Raleigh (N.C.)
• Same-sex marriage--Laws and legislation--United States.
• Gays--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
• Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

[Identification of item], Triangle Community Works Records, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University

The Triangle Community Works Records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2009.

Processed by Meghan Lyon, December 2009

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, January 2010

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2009-0276

This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.