High Tech Gays

San Jose: High Tech Gays, 1986. 8 ½ x 3 ¾ in. Offset. Single sheet folded in thirds. 

Pamphlet advertising the organization and encouraging new members to join. High Tech Gays, founded in 1983 and disbanded in 1997, would bring suit against the United States Department of Defense challenging policy that denied security clearances to those thought to be gay. The case would make it to the United States Court of Appeals, which sided with the homophobic government policy, before being resolved by an Executive Order in 1995 prohibiting discrimination in determining governmental security clearance. The organization was also active in lobbying many private corporations to adopt policies forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. This pamphlet outlines the group’s educational, recreational, and direct action agenda in 1986 and includes an application form for entry into the group. The pamphlet also includes a list of companies at which their members were employed, which had grown substantially from the previous year. Near fine.