Thomas Kraemer Papers, 1908-2018

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Kraemer, Thomas Fredrick.
Title
Thomas Kraemer Papers
Dates
1908-2018 (inclusive)
1960-2018 (bulk)
Quantity
17.25 cubic feet, including 34 DVDs; 4 Gbytes, (18 boxes, including 1 oversize box; 1,307 files)
Collection Number
MSS Kraemer
Summary
Oregon State University alumnus Thomas Kraemer helped to found the Gay Peoples Alliance, the first officially recognized gay student group at OSU, in 1976. The Kraemer Papers reflect Kraemer's decades-long research on LGBTQ+ issues. The collection includes Kraemer's blog, blog reference materials, and research files; his collection of comics, magazines, and films; some biographical materials, and a set of documents pertaining to Hewlett-Packard's LGBTQ+ related activities, policies, and trainings during the 1990s.
The contents of the folders found in Series 6 have been digitized and are available upon request.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Thomas Kraemer earned his BS (1977) and MS (1978) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Oregon State University. With other students, he founded the OSU Gay Peoples Alliance in 1976, the first officially recognized gay student group at Oregon State University. He was the blog author for the Thomas Kraemer Blog and Tom's OSU Blog which have both covered a range of topics from health, relationships, sex, media and politics of the gay community. His speech at the OSU Queer History Month in 2006 discussed the history of gay student groups at OSU from 1976-2006. Kraemer was the founding benefactor of the OSU Foundation's Magnus Hirschfeld Fund for multidisciplinary research at OSU in all academic disciplines. Kraemer worked for Hewlett-Packard over three decades where he helped design HP's first portable computers and partnered with Intel to design the first Ethernet hardware necessary for connecting to the internet. Kraemer passed away in 2018.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

At Oregon State University Kraemer helped to found the Gay Peoples Alliance, the first officially recognized gay student group at OSU, in 1976. Throughout his lifetime, Kraemer conducted research on LGBTQ+ issues. The collection includes Kraemer's blog, blog reference materials, and research files; his collection of comics, magazines, and films; and some biographical materials.

Kraemer's blogs discuss historical events within the gay community, contemporary LGBTQ+ issues, media representation, political topics, and sexual health. The OSU blog covers the development of the Pride Cultural Center, the Native American Cultural Center, and other issues that are specific to the LGBTQ+ community on the OSU campus. Thomas Kraemer's personal blog includes 1,554 individual posts starting in 2006 and ending in 2011.The OSU blog has 410 individual posts starting in 2012 and ending in 2017.

Kraemer's research files contain Bareback Journal Papers, content from Gay Today, sexual health information, writings on Jack Baker by Jack Nichols, and information about the Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation that he founded to support multi-disciplinary research at Oregon State. OSU Barometer news articles, news coverage on political topics, and research on HIV/Aids are also included in these files. This series includes 4 GB (1,307 files) of electronic records materials which are available for research in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center's Reading Room.

The comics, magazines, and films are about the gay community. They vary from comedic, erotic, artistic, socially conscious or focused on politics. The collection includes multiple editions of Men Meat Comics, POZ Magazine, and XY Magazine.

The Hewlett-Packard materials include various documents Kraemer collected during the 1990s pertaining to the company’s LGBTQ+ activities, policies, trainings, group meetings, and inter-office correspondence. This series predominantly consists of email correspondence, but also includes information pertaining to HP’s Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Employee Network (GLEN), and copies of HP’s publication Measure Magazine. The contents of the folders found in the Hewlett-Packard series have been digitized and are available upon request.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Thomas Kraemer Papers (MSS Kraemer), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The Kraemer Papers collection is divided into 6 series: Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1963-2009; Series 2: Blogs and Blog Reference Materials, 1992-2018 (Sub-Series 1: Blog, 2006-2011, Sub-Series 2: OSU Blog, 2012-2017, and Sub-Series 3: Reference Materials, 1992-2018); Series 3: Research Files, 1908-2017; Series 4: Comics, Magazines, and Books, 1969-2018 (Sub-Series 1: Comics, 1971-2008, Sub-Series 2: Magazines: 1969-2008, and Sub-Series 3: Books, 1985-2018); Series 5: Films, 1968-2018; Series 6: Hewlett-Packard, 1992-1997

Acquisition Information

In 2006, Thomas Kraemer donated his 2006 Queer History Month Speech to the University Archives. In 2018, after Kraemer's passing, his widow Kim Kraemer donated the Kraemer Papers to the OSU Queer Archives.

Processing Note

We acknowledge that materials in SCARC collections and the language that describes them may be harmful. We are actively working to address our descriptive practices; for more information please see our SCARC Anti-Racist Actions Statement online.

The archivist-prepared description of this collection uses the phrase “Civil War” to refer to the long-standing athletic rivalry between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon. A history of this athletic rivalry, and use of the phrase “Civil War” to describe it, is available online in The Origins of the "Civil War" Football Game blog post.

In June 2020, Oregon State University President Edward J. Ray announced that the term  “Civil War” will no longer be used by either university because it “represents a connection to a war fought to perpetuate slavery.”

We acknowledge the racism represented by the use of this phrase and the harm it may cause our users. In order to provide historical context and to enable standardized searching and access across our collections, we have retained the use of this phrase in the collection description.

[Date of acknowledgement: November 2021]

Related Materials

This collection is a component of the OSU Queer Archives. Other collections related to LGBTQ+ history include the Pride Center Records (RG 236), the Queer History Research Collection, the Queer Studies Program Records (RG 278), and the Student Leadership and Involvement Records (RG 232).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1:  Biographical Materials, 1963-2009Return to Top

Series 1 consists of biographical materials about Thomas Kraemer. The series includes artwork from Kraemer’s childhood, information on his parents, and his personal resume. Correspondence documents include copies of Kraemer’s inquiry and response to technological newsletters, as well as copies of newsletters such as OSU's "Crosstalk: Newsetter for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering" and "ACMMemberNet" - specifically related to The Computer Bowl. Writing documents include newspaper article clippings that mention Kraemer or were authored by him.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1.1 - 1.2
Childhood
2 folders
undated
1.3
Correspondence
1975-2005
1.4
Herbert F. Kraemer
1971-2009
1.5
Photos of Thomas Kraemer
undated
18.1
Art - Thomas Kraemer Portfolio
undated
1.6
Professional Resume
1998
18.2
Thomas Kraemer Childhood Drawings
undated
18.3
Thomas Kraemer and Herbert Kraemer Awards
1963-1971
1.7
Writing
1972-2005

Series 2:  Blogs and Blog Reference Materials, 1992-2018Return to Top

Series 2 includes printed copies of Thomas Kraemer’s personal blog posts, his posts for the OSU blog, and materials that he used as reference or inspiration for the blog posts he created. Kraemer’s personal blog includes 1,554 individual posts starting in 2006 and ending in 2011. These posts discuss gay student groups, media representations of the gay community, politics, and safe sex practices. The OSU blog has 410 individual posts starting in 2012 and ending in 2017 with many of the same topics but tailored to be specific the OSU and Corvallis communities.

Container(s) Description Dates
Blog
2006-2011
Box/Folder
1.8
Blog 1-28
2006
1.9
Blog 29-125
2006
1.10
Blog 126-164
2006
1.11
Blog 165-229
2006
1.12
Blog 230-287
2007
1.13
Blog 288-339
2007
1.14
Blog 340-374
2007
1.15
Blog 375-419
2007
1.16
Blog 414-455
2007
1.17
Blog 456-477
2007
1.18
Blog 478-495
2007
1.19
Blog 496-521
2007
1.20
Blog 522-558
2008
2.1
Blog 559-591
2008
2.2
Blog 592-620
2008
2.3
Blog 621-629
2008
2.4
Blog 630-653
2008
2.5
Blog 654-680
2008
2.6
Blog 681-716
2008
2.7
Blog 717-744
2008
2.8
Blog 745-764
2008
2.9
Blog 765-790
2008
2.10
Blog 791-818
2008
2.11
Blog 819-841
2008
2.12
Blog 842-874
2009
2.13
Blog 875-900
2009
2.14
Blog 901-930
2009
2.15
Blog 931-959
2009
2.16
Blog 960-990
2009
2.17
Blog 991-1010
2009
3.1
Blog 1011-1040
2009
3.2
Blog 1041-1064
2009
3.3
Blog 1065-1085
2009
3.4
Blog 1086-1111
2009
3.5
Blog 1112-1132
2009
3.6
Blog 1133-1156
2009
3.7
Blog 1157-1187
2010
3.8
Blog 1188-1214
2010
3.9
Blog 1215-1234
2010
3.10
Blog 1235-1262
2010
3.11
Blog 1263-1291
2010
3.12
Blog 1292-1320
2010
3.13
Blog 1321-1349
2010
3.14
Blog 1350-1376
2010
4.1
Blog 1377-1414
2010
4.2
Blog 1415-1440
2010-2011
4.3
Blog 1441-1462
2011
4.4
Blog 1463-1472
2011
4.5
Blog 1473-1492
2011
4.6
Blog 1493-1510
2011
4.7
Blog 1511-1528
2011
4.8
Blog 1529-1554
2011
OSU Blog
2012-2017
Box/Folder
4.9
OSU Blog 1-10
2012
4.10
OSU Blog 11-21
2012
4.11
OSU Blog 22-37
2012
4.12
OSU Blog 38-55
2012
4.13
OSU Blog 56-75
2012
4.14
OSU Blog 76-85
2012
4.15
OSU Blog 86-96
2013
4.16
OSU Blog 97-108
2013
5.1
OSU Blog 109-120
2013
5.2
OSU Blog 121-138
2013
5.3
OSU Blog 139-155
2014
5.4
OSU Blog 156-171
2014
5.5
OSU Blog 172-184
2014
5.6
OSU Blog 185-201
2014
5.7
OSU Blog 202-223
2015
5.8
OSU Blog 224-250
2015
5.9
OSU Blog 251-269
2015
5.10
OSU Blog 270-291
2015
5.11
OSU Blog 292-308
2016
5.12
OSU Blog 309-329
2016
5.13
OSU Blog 330-345
2016
5.14
OSU Blog 346-357
2016
5.15
OSU Blog 358-370
2017
5.16
OSU Blog 371-387
2017
5.17
OSU Blog 388-395
2017
5.18
OSU Blog 396-410
2017
Reference Materials
1992-2018
Box/Folder
6.1
ELF Web
1992-1994
6.2 - 6.3
G-T/EW Letters
2 folders
1995-2011
6.4 - 6.5
GT Letters
2 folders
2012-2018
6.6 - 6.7
Internet UseNet FAQs
2 folders
1992-1993
6.8 - 6.9
Kraemer Web Writing
2 folders
2000-2007
6.10 - 6.11
Misc. Internet UseNet
2 folders
1992-1994
6.12 - 6.13
Misc. Web
2 folders
2004-2006
6.14 - 6.15
Misc. Web
2 folders
2007-2008
6.16
Misc. Web
2009-2010

Series 3:  Research Files, 1908-2017Return to Top

Series 3 consists of the materials used to inspire or support the topics in the blog posts, historical research on gay student groups that were included in Kraemer’s speech for Queer History Month in 2006, and collected information used for writings on Jack Baker by Jack Nichols. Some topics included in this series are on AIDS/HIV, condom usage, content from Gay Today, politics surrounding LGBT issues in Oregon, and copies of Kraemer’s Queer History Pride Speech. This series includes 18 Digital Folders, 4 GB (1,307 files) of electronic records materials.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
7.1
60 Minutes - Gay Choice
2006
7.2
AIDS Denialist
1994-2003
7.3
AIDS Denial, David Pasquarelli, Michael Petrelis
1994-2004
7.4
AIDS Denial - Eugene Weekly
2002
7.5
AIDS Denialist, Just Out/Jeff Palmer
2002-2004
AIDS HIV Articles and Reports
5.7 MB; 21 files
2005-2006
Box/Folder
7.6
Anal Top vs Bottom
2003-2009
Bareback Articles
3.3 MB; 6 files
2004-2006
Box/Folder
7.7
Bareback Bug Chasing Papers
1986-2003
7.8
Bareback, Gregory Carson, Psychotherapy Gay
1999-2004
7.9
Bareback/Haart, Treatment Optimism
2004-2005
7.10
Bareback Jack
1991-2007
7.11
Bareback Journal Papers
1997-2003
7.12
Bareback Journal Papers
2003-2004
7.13
Bareback Journal Papers
2000-2005
7.14
Bareback Journal Papers
2006-2007
7.15
Bareback, Just Out, Advocate
1998-2007
7.16
Bareback - Making Sense of Barebacking
2005-2008
7.17
Bareback, Michael Shernoff
2005-2006
7.18
Bareback Risk
2009
7.19
Bareback Scott O'Hara
1997-2009
7.20
Bareback Sex, Pathologizing Gay
2008
7.21
Bareback Stealthing
1997-2009
7.22
Bareback, Sullivan vs. Signorile
2001-2004
7.23
Bareback - Writing Bareback in French
2008
7.24
Bisexuality Bailey
1995-2005
7.25
Blog - OSU Gay Dads w/black kids
2013
Book Reviews
2.6 MB; 3 files
2005-2006
Box/Folder
7.26
BoyScouts/Queer
2000-2005
7.27
Bug Chaser, The Gift Movie. HIV Gift Giving
1996-2005
7.28
Bug Chaser, Xtreme Sex, First Person Story
1994-2003
7.29
CA Gay Marriage 2008 Court Decision
2004-2008
7.30
Condoms
1987-1999
Condoms
1 MB; 3 files
1999-2006
Box/Folder
7.31
Condoms, Consumer Reports
2005
7.32
Condom - Female
1995-2009
7.33
Condoms - Gay Porn Usage
2004
7.34
Condom - History of Female Condom
1988-2009
7.36
Condoms - Sheep Skin
1989-2008
7.37
Corvallis Aids, OSU HP
1994
7.38
Corvallis, News, Gov. James McGreevey, Field Murder Blackmail
2004
7.39
Corvallis Pride, Gay Marriage
2013
8.1
Dreger on Bailey, Trans Controversy
2007
8.2
Equity Foundation
2002-2005
8.3
Equity Foundation
2005-2010
8.4
ExGay
1997-2007
8.5
ExGay
1998-2003
Ex Gay
1.5 MB; 2 files
2005
Box/Folder
8.6
ExGay - A.M.J. of Psych
1934-1981
8.7
ExGay- Ask Marilyn Vos Savant
1996-2002
8.8
ExGay - Dan Zeigler, GT Letters
2005
8.9
ExGay - Freud Letter, Bieber
1951-2008
8.10
ExGay-Spitzer, APA, Marmor, Fryer
1974-2004
8.11
ExGay - Zach
2005
8.12
FMA Gay Marriage
2005
Gay Fruit Flies
70 MB; 10 files
2005
Gay Pride
970 KB; 1 file
2005
Box/Folder
8.13
Gay Today - Baker, Jack
1971-2006
8.14
Gay Today - Baker, Jack; Campbell, Tim
2006
8.15
Gay Today - Baker v. Nelson, D.O.J. Brief, Obama
2009
8.16
Gay Today - Index
undated
8.17
Gay Today - Jack Nichols Book, J. Louis Campbell III, Email
2006-2008
8.18
Gay Today - Jack Nichols Book, J. Louis Campbell III, Email
2004-2006
8.19
Gay Today - Jack Nichols Gallery Proof, J. Louis Campbell
2007
8.20 - 8.21
Gay Today - Jack Nichols Notes
2 folders
2003-2005
8.22
Gay Today - Jack Nichols and Men's Liberation
1975-2008
8.23
Gay Today - Jack Nichols and Walt Whitman
1997
8.24
Gay Today - Letters: Does molestation make you gay?
2002
8.25
Gay Today - Life, Gay Lib, Jack Baker Gay Marriage
1971-2008
8.26
Gay Today - Look, Jack Baker
1971-2009
8.27
Gay Today - Misc
2002-2005
8.28
Gay Today - Misc
2002-2003
8.29
Gay Today - News Gay Marriage
1976-2005
8.30
Gay Today - Nichols Biography Book Review
2008
8.31
Gay Today - Nichols Death
2005
8.32
Gay Today - O'Franken Factor
2004
8.33 - 8.34
Gay Today - Oregon Marriage Separate but Equal
2 folders
2004
9.1
Gay Today - OSU Beavers
2008-2009
9.2
Gay Today - Pen Point Letters: David Benkof, David Bianco
2004
9.3 - 9.4
Gay Today - Preventing Homosexuality
2 folders
2002
9.5
Gay Today - Psychiatry, Voodoo
2003
9.6
Gay Today - Psychology Today Editor, Something Queer
2002
9.7 - 9.8
Gay Today - Psychology Today: ExGay, Alien Sex, Santorum + Lott
2 folders
2003
9.9
Gay Today: Republican Bacehlors, O'Reilly Foxy Family Values
2003
9.10
Gay Today - Republican Convention
2004
9.11
Gay Today - Review of Jack Nichols Book: I have more fun with you than anybody
2003
9.12
Gay Today - Sars vs. Aids vs. Free Love
2003
9.13 - 9.14
Gay Today - Society and the Healthy Homosexual, Homophobia, George Weinburg
2 folders
2003
9.15
Gay Today - Sodomy/Liberty - Cal Thomas
2003
9.16 - 9.17
Gay Today - Sodomy Ruling
2 folders
2003
9.18
Gay Today - Thomas Kraemer
2002-2004
9.19
Gay Today - Viewpoint: Democratic Convention
2004
9.20 - 9.21
Gay Today - Why do ExGays Matter?
2 folders
2003
9.22
Gazette Times: "As I See It", OSU Magnus Hirschefeld Fund, OSU Endowment
2016
9.23
Gender/Marriage, Legal Definition Trans
2000-2004
10.1
History of OSU Gay
1976-2006
10.2
HIV-2 Origins/Treatment/Genes
1997-2002
10.3
HIV/Aids, Perianal kaposi's sarcoma, HIV related
2002-2009
10.4
HIV/Anal, Condoms & Anal HIV Risk
2001-2005
10.5
HIV Blood Donation Policy
2004-2008
10.6
HIV/Condoms/Circumcision
2002-2007
10.7
HIV Drug Resistance
2002-2003
10.8
HIV, Gay Men, Aids
2006-2007
10.9
HIV Immunity, Aids without HIV
1992-2005
10.10
HIV Journal Papers
1997-2004
10.11
HIV/Oral Polio/Ed Harper
1992-2006
10.12
HIV, President Reagan Aids
2004-2008
10.13
HIV Program - CDC
1991-2006
10.14
HIV Reinfection/Super Infection vs. Coinfection
2002-2004
10.15
HIV Treatments - Immune/Testing/Genes
1997-2005
10.16
Hormones/Homosexual
1940s
10.17
Invention and Technology - HP Inkjet Article
2001-2007
10.18
Jack Baker Blog
2012
10.19
Jack Baker History by Ken Bronson
2004
10.20
Jack Baker Letters
2011-2012
10.21
Jack Baker/OSU, U of M Tretter
2010-2012
10.22
Jack Baker Research
2011-2013
10.23
Jack Baker, U of MN, Gay Marriage
2012-2013
10.24
Jack Baker U of MN Library
1970-2017
J. Nichols Photographs
192 MB; 904 files
1920s-2003
J. Nichols Photographs Published in Book
21 MB; 84 files
1917-2004
Box/Folder
10.25 - 10.26
Jack Nichols
2 folders
2006
10.27 - 10.28
Jack Nichols Biography Draft by J. Louis Campbell
2 folders
2004
10.29
Jack Nichols Biography - J. Louis Campbell
2005
10.30
Just Out/Barometer, OSU Gay History
2006
11.1
Latter Days, OSU Letter
2005
11.2
Legal Definition - Sodomy; Anal vs Oral vs Vaginal Sex; Florida Case HIV Law
2013
Legal System and Homosexuality
892 KB; 4 files
2004-2006
Box/Folder
11.3
Letter PQ Monthly, Baker/Legg/OSU
1971-2013
11.4
Magazine Clippings, Online Printouts, Newspaper, Blogs
1971-2011
11.5
Magnus Hirschfeld Archives and Books
1935-2005
11.6
Magnus Hirschfeld Book/Movie
1936-2016
11.7
Magnus Hirschfeld Fund Research Paper
1949-2006
11.8
Magnus Hirschfeld - The Homosexuality of Men & Women
2010-2013
11.9
McCarthy Gay Hearings
2003-2007
11.10
McConnel Baker Book - U of Minnesota Press
2015-2017
11.11
Measure 36
2004
Media Transcripts
344 KB; 23 files
2004-2005
Medical Research
27 MB; 22 files
2000-2005
Box/Folder
11.12
MetroM8 F:5 Copies of Issues 46-78
1997-2003
11.13
MetroM8 F:5 Copies of Issues 80-108
2004
11.14
MetroM8 Gay Education
2002-2004
11.15
Misc. Gay Sex Ed
2003-2007
11.16
MSM Public Sex
2001-2005
11.17
N.J. Gay Marriage Court Decision
2006
11.18
No on 9 Mabon
2000-2007
11.19
Oregon U.S. Senator Smith
2001-2008
11.20
Oregon Supreme Court Gay Marriage
2004-2008
11.21
OSU - George Hastings
1908-1912
11.22
OSU 2002 Pride Week Speech
2002
11.23
OSU Alumni Calendar
2008
11.24
OSU Alumni Magazine
2005-2009
11.25
OSU Alumni Magazine - Gay Letter
2011-2012
11.26
OSU Alum - Tami Brucker
2007
11.27
OSU Archives Speech Donation
2005-2006
11.28
OSU Barometer - Gay History, Microfilm Copies
1970s
11.29
OSU Barometer - Misc. Microfilm Copy
1970s
11.30
OSU Barometer - Microfilm
1980s
11.31
OSU Barometer - Gay/Queer Clippings
1999-2001
12.1
OSU Barometer
2002-2003
12.2
OSU Barometer
2004
12.3
OSU Barometer 2005
12.4
OSU Barometer
2006
12.5 - 12.6
OSU Barometer
2 folders
2007
12.7
OSU Barometer
2008
12.8
OSU Barometer - Prop 8, Homophobia
2008
12.9
OSU Barometer - Pride Week Coverage
2009
12.10
OSU Barometer
2010
12.11 - 12.12
OSU Barometer
2 folders
2012
12.13
OSU Barometer - W. Dorr Legg, 1st Amendment
2014
12.14
OSU Civil War; Transphobia
2012
12.15
OSU Coming Out
2012
12.16
OSU Coordinator - Steven Leider, Office of LGBT Outreach & Services
2004-2007
12.17
OSU Drag; Gay Marriage; "The Liberty" Court Decision
The contents of this folder have been digitized and are available upon request.
2005-2012
12.18
OSU Eddie Hickey , G-T Article
1982
12.19
OSU Esera Tuaolo
2002-2006
12.20
OSU First Gay Student Group
2006-2008
12.21
OSU Gay Groups Speech - Thomas Kraemer
1976-2006
12.22
OSU Gay History, Gay Lifestyles
1984-2006
12.23
OSU Gay History, Gay History Speech and Overheads
2006
12.24
OSU Gay History Speech (Bound Draft)
2006
12.25
OSU Gay Student Groups (Bound Copy)
1976-2006
12.26
OSU Gay Window
2013
12.27
OSU Jerral Sapienza, OSU Dai Crisp
1978-2006
12.28
OSU LGBT Alumni Network
2007
12.29
OSU Native American Center
1979-2011
12.30
OSU Pride Center
1962-2010
12.31
OSU Professor W. Dorr Legg, William Lambert
1953-2013
12.32
OSU QHM Plant Mtg.; Old Drafts of Speech
2006
12.33
OSU Queer Archives - Susan Shaw, Bradley Boovy, Natalia Fernandez
2016-2017
OSU Queer History Speech 2006 Research Materials
3.67 MB; 37 folders, 186 files
1940s-2006
Box/Folder
12.34
OSU Queer Resource Center
2010-2013
OSU Queer Resource Center Documentary Clips
3.7 GB; 5 files
circa 2005
Box/Folder
13.1
OSU Speech/Blog
2006
13.2
OSU Social Justice, W. Durr Legg
2014
13.3
OSU WGSS Letter; Magnus Hirschfeld Fund
2016
13.4
Outhistory.org
1969-2004
13.5
Outhistory.org
2006-2013
13.6
Outhistory - Large Print Original
2012
13.7 - 13.8
Outhistory - OSU Gay History
2 folders
2011-2014
13.9
Outhistory - OSU History
2010-2013
13.10
Outing Closeted Gay Politicians/Preachers; Gannon/Finklestein; Republican Gays
2005
Psych Research
1.4 MB; 2 files
2004-2006
Box/Folder
13.11
Regulation Due to Sex Panic; J. Out Letter
2003-2004
Religion and Homosexuality
7 MB; 5 files
2005-2006
Box/Folder
13.12
Reply - Jack Baker
2010-2013
13.13
Representative Mark Foley
2006
13.14
Robert Epstein Gay Choice
2006-2007
13.15
Robert Epstein Gay Choice
2009
13.16
Rolling Stones - Bug Chasers
2000-2004
13.17
Senator Larry Craig; Tearoom
2005-2008
13.18
Sexual Identity Therapy
2008
13.19
Spokane Mayor Jim West
2005-2006
13.20
Stayin' Alive, Beyond Shame Book Review
2003-2004
Technology
17 MB; 25 files
2006
Box/Folder
13.21
Ted Haggard
2005-2007
13.22
Terman - George Henry; Packard, Sex Variants
1941-1995
13.23
Terrance Higgins Trust Gay Ed.
2000-2004
Transgender Research
140 KB; 1 file
2004
Box/Folder
13.24
U of MN Donation to Tretter Collection
2004-2013

Series 4:  Comics, Magazines, and Books, 1969-2018Return to Top

Series 4 is a collection of comics and magazines that cater to gay men. Some of the comics are hardcover, are erotic in theme, and a few postcards created by comic book artists are included. MeatMen comics numbers 1-26 are part of this series with each edition being an anthology of gay male comics. Gay Comics series number 1-25 are another complete set included in this set. The rest of the comics are a variety of titles such as Comic Scene, Comix, Eros, and Rip Off to name a few.

The magazines in this series are geared to gay men that discuss social, health, and entertainment topics. Several editions of Poz Magazine and XY Magazine are included in the series. Three undated magazines created by Gary Griffen on topics of fellatio, testicles and penis enlargement. Other magazines are Mad, Time, First Hand and Guys.

Kraemer had a large collection of books donated as part of his collection; only a small fraction were kept for the Special Collections and Archives Research Center Rare Book Collection. Included in his papers is a list of the books in his collection.

Container(s) Description Dates
Comics
1971-2008
Box/Folder
13.25
Assorted Comic Books
1971-1994
13.26
Assorted Comic Books
1984-1997
13.27
Assorted Erotic Comics - Book Collections
1989-2005
13.28
Bitchy Butch; Curbside Comics; Krazy Komiks Postcards
1998-2002
13.29
Book Edition Comics
undated
14.1
Boy Trouble Comics
1994-2004
14.2
Comics Scene; Comix; Guttersnipe; Rip Off Comics
1974-1994
14.3
Eros 1 & 16 Comic Book
1990-1992
14.4
Gay Comics #1-16
1980-1992
14.5
Gay Comics #17-25
1992-1998
14.6
Hands Off; The Initiation; Real Smut Comics
1992-2008
14.7
Large Comic Books
1988-2003
14.8
Leather Boy Comics
1994
14.9
Leonard and Larry Comic Books
1993-2003
14.10
Meat Men Comics #1-2; "Boys will be Boys" Postcards
1986-1987
14.11
Meat Men Comics #3-5
1988-1989
14.12
Meat Men Comics #6-8
1989-1990
14.13
Meat Men Comics #9-11
1990-1991
15.1
Meat Men Comics #12-14
1991-1993
15.2
Meat Men Comics #15-17
1993-1995
15.3
Meat Men Comics #18-20
1996-1997
15.4
Meat Men Comics #21-23
1997-1999
15.5
Meat Men Comics #24-26
2000-2004
15.6
Real Girl Comics
1990-1995
15.7
The Cavalcade of Boys Comic
2003
1969-2008
Box/Folder
15.8
First Hand Magazine
1994
15.9
Guys Magazine
1991
15.10
Mad Magazine
1997-2006
15.11
Magazines by Gary Griffin
undated
15.12
POZ Magazine
1994, 1996
15.13
POZ Magazine
1997
15.14 - 15.15
POZ Magazine
2 folders
1998
15.16
POZ Magazine
1999
15.17
POZ Magazine
2000
16.1
Straight to Hell (S.T.H.)
1981-1994
16.2
Time Magazine
1969-1994
16.3
Various Magazines
1994-2001
16.4
XY Foto
2003, 2008
16.5 - 16.6
XY Magazine
2 folders
1996
16.7 - 16.8
XY Magazine
2 folders
1997
16.9
XY Magazine
1998
16.10 - 16.11
XY Magazine
2 folders
1999
16.12
XY Magazine
2000
16.13
XY Magazine
2001
16.14
XY Magazine
2002
16.15
XY Magazine
2003
16.16
XY Magazine
2004-2006
16.17
XY Magazine
2007-2008
Books
1985-2018
Box/Folder
16.18
Book Collection List
2018
16.19
'King & King' and Gay Children's Books media coverage
1985-2004

Series 5:  Films, 1968-2018Return to Top

Series 5 is a collection of 34 films (DVD format) that are LGBTQ+ themed. The range of movies are dated from 1968 to 2009. Many of the films are documentary in style covering political topics, love stories, social groups, and historical eras. The original donation of materials included 56 films (or film sets); a list of the original film list is included in the collection.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
17.1
Films List
2018
box-item
17.01
101 Rent Boys
2001
17.02
Almost Myself: Reflections on Mending & Transcending Gender
2007
17.03
Boys Briefs
2000
17.04
Eban and Charley
2000
17.05
Fish Can't Fly
2005
17.06
Flesh
1968
17.07
Gay Sex in the 70s
2006
17.08
Get Real
1999
17.09
Gypsy Boys
1999
17.10
Hey, Happy!
2003
17.11
In the Flesh
1998
17.12
Killer Condom
undated
17.13
Kiss Me Guido
1997
17.14
Latter Days
2003
17.15
Leather Jacket Love Story
2002
17.16
Lilies
1996
17.17
Longtime Companion
1995
17.18
Men Men Men
1996
17.19
Montreal Main
1974
17.20
No Ordinary Love
1995
17.21
On the bus
undated
17.22
Outrage
2009
17.23
Paragraph 175
2000
17.24
Querelle
1982
17.25
Rites of Passage
1999
17.26
Stonewall
1999
17.27
Stonewall & Riot
2006
17.28
The Celluloid Closet
1996
17.29
The Einstein of Sex
1999
17.30
The Laramie Project
2002
17.31
The House of Morecock
2001
17.32
The Wakefield Poole Collection 1971-86
2002
17.33
This Filthy World
2006
17.34
Wild Reeds
1994

Series 6:  Hewlett-Packard, 1992-1997Return to Top

Kraemer worked for Hewlett-Packard (HP) for over three decades. During the 1990s, he collected various materials pertaining to the company’s LGBTQ+ activities, policies, trainings, group meetings, and inter-office correspondence. This series predominantly consists of email correspondence, but also includes information pertaining to HP’s Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Employee Network (GLEN), and copies of HP’s publication Measure Magazine.

The 1993 correspondence contains several online threads where HP employees engage in debate regarding topics of LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion at HP and in society more broadly. Topics addressed in these threads include domestic partner benefits, HP’s stance on anti-gay legal initiatives, healthcare, gay marriage and discrimination. The materials pertaining to domestic partner benefits include a statement by HP sharing the company’s stance on affirmative action. The documents pertaining to GLEN consist of email correspondence, meeting minutes, diversity training and workshop materials, photographs, GLEN promotional and educational materials, and materials sharing community resources. There are three issues of Measure Magazine; the issues include articles pertaining the presence and work of employee networks at HP, such as GLEN, violence and harassment in the workplace, and diversity. Also included in the series is an email internally shared by an HP employee in which he reflects on his experience participating in a gender diversity training; the initial email is accompanied by a massive email chain in which other employees share their thoughts. Additionally, there is email correspondence describing a group in Colorado known as GROUND ZERO as well as a document titled “Gay & Lesbian Issues and Culture on National Public Television.”

The records in this series have been digitized and are available upon request.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
17.2
Correspondence
1993
17.3
Domestic Partner Benefits
1995-1996
17.4
GLEN (Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Employee Network)
1995-1997
17.5
Measure Magazine
1995-1996
17.6
"My Gender Diversity Training Experience" and Related Correspondence
1994
17.7
Related Materials
1992-1996

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Gay college students--Oregon--Corvallis.

Personal Names

  • Kraemer, Thomas Fredrick.

Corporate Names

  • Gay Peoples Alliance (Oregon State University)
  • Oregon State University--Students.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Blogs.
  • Born digital.
  • DVDs.