The George Chapin Scott and Edward C. Bernier Collection spans from ca. 1915 to 2005. The bulk of the collection is photographs. Subjects include Edward ‘Eddie’ C. Bernier, family photos of George Scott and photographs of Scott and Bernier and friends in Provincetown, MA. Also included are family documents and juvenilia related George Scott (ca. 1915-1930s), business cards and address books, correspondence, and printed materials.

The Gender Crash collection consists of one archival box. Box contains a series of folders centering on the monthly open mic Gender Crash, Butch Dyke Boy Productions, and the founder of both organizations, Gunner Scott. This collection also contains limited information about events of other LGBTQ organizations in the Boston area. The majority of the materials present date between 2000 and 2009. Included are original documents as well as photocopies of event flyers, administrative materials, letters, and printed materials. The collection is arranged thematically by organization.

The International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), founded in 1987 in Massachusetts, is a leading advocate and educational organization for promoting the self- definition and free expression of individual gender identity. The IFGE Collection is comprised of office materials, (1992-2006) IFGE publications (1990s- 2002), resource booklets (1990s- 2000s), and printed materials regarding transgender news, (1998-2010). Also included are memorabilia such as buttons and a board game. Audio cassettes (1995-1996) contain episodes of ‘Gender Talk.’

Joyce Crowder (September 4, 1935 – April 4, 2010) was a nurse and ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. She worked to protect the rights of gay and lesbian nurses through her membership in the Gay Nurses’ Alliance and as secretary for the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus. She was one of two nurses to join what would later be known as the AIDS Action Committee. She was a board member for Bay Windows and co-founder of the South Shore Sisterhood. In 1994 she obtained her Masters of Divinity (MDiv) from Harvard Divinity School. She was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ (UCC) the following year at Church of the Covenant, Boston.

The collection consists of two boxes that have been arranged topically. Crowder’s collection contains a variety of printed media, including newspaper and magazine articles (originals and photocopied), whole newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. Correspondence is sparse, but includes some letters related to a dispute in her home church and journals related to her training and hospice work. Also included are personal photographs. Most HIV/AIDS related material from Joyce Crowder has been moved to the Above and Beyond Collection. Materials are also found in Older Lesbian Energy (OLÉ).

Charles Shively was born in 1937. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard in 1959, and his PhD in 1969. He began teaching at Boston State College in 1965. In 1982 when BSC closed their doors, UMass Boston agreed to take seven of their thirty history professors. Shively, while in the top running was thought of as having abandoned history for Gay Liberation and too radical for UMass. With the help and support of his friends, Charlie did manage to get hired by UMass where he was placed in a much small and less known program of Law and Justice. He later transferred to American Studies. He was awarded three Fulbright Research and Teaching Grants over his lifetime. This first in 1991 when he was named a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Mexico on sexually variant behavior. In 1996 his second Fulbright was awarded for a summer in Ecuador. In 2001 he traveled to Vietnam on his third grant, teaching American Studies. Shively was one of the first scholars to publish in the new field of sexuality and gay studies that emerged in the 1970's and early 1980's. His writings and knowledge on Walt Whitman, led to his two books, Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados (1987) and Drum Beats: Walt Whitman's Civil War Soldier Boy Lovers, (1989) both published by Gay Sunshine Press are still contributing to scholarly debates to this day. An avid poet, he surrounded himself with some of the leading Boston poets and writers of his time, including, John Wieners, Michael Bronski, and John Mitzel. His collection contains two boxes of his own hand-written poetry along with an array of personal notes and poems from his wide circle of friends. In 1971, Charley Shively along with John Mitzel, and Larry Martin formed the Fag Rag Collective and began publishing the Boston Gay Newspaper, Fag Rag, which ran until the early 1980's. During it's run Fag Rag became an important vehicle for incarcerated men to connect with one another. 

Charlie Shively along with Mike Riegle began a prison correspondence program. The Charles Shively Collection, as well as the Mike Riegle Collection, contains hundreds of hand-written correspondences and letters of LGBTQ life while incarcerated. Charlie Shively was often called, Mr. Gay Liberation by his friends. During the seventies and early eighties, he helped found such organizations as Gay Community News, The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), and Fenway Community Health Center, to name just a few.

The collection consists of 9 boxes that have been arranged topically based on Charlie Shively's organizational techniques and divided into fourteen series. The Shively collection contains a variety of printed media including newspaper articles, (original and photocopied,) poetry magazines, serials, and books. The collection also consists of academic course materials including employment reviews, teaching evaluations, and business correspondence. Personal correspondence, speeches, and press releases from many of Boston's poetry readings are also part of his collection. In order to aid in the discovery and research potential of this collection, an index has been created for the various rare and little known publications that Shively collected.