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ARCHIVAL & RESEARCH PAPERS:

Walter Holland's papers, memorabilia, unpublished works, may be found at The LGBT Community Center National History Archive located at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center on West 13th Street in New York City. Contact person is Lou McCarthy, Archivist, https://gaycenter.org/culture/archives/

His "A Personal History of LGBTQ+ Life in Lynchburg, Virginia From The Seventies to the Nineties" with photos, was donated in 2023 to The Lynchburg Museum at the Old Courthouse in both hard copy and digital formats.

An early memoir piece by Walter Holland about his boyhood in Lynchburg, Virginia and his family history and later life was also donated in 2021 to the museum. More info at https://www.lynchburgmuseum.org/  Contact person was Ted Delaney, Director. ted.delaney@lynchburgva.gov

Additionally, his "AIDS in Lynchburg, the 1980s, 1990s and Beyond" is also was donated in digital and hard copy formats  with The Lynchburg Museum at the Old Courthouse in 2023. https://www.lynchburgmuseum.org/

"A Timeline of the LGBTQ+ History in Lynchburg, Virginia in the  1970s, 1980s, 1990s" and a "Timeline of the AIDS Epidemic in Lynchburg, Virginia" were also donated in 2023 to The Lynchburg Museum at the Old Courthouse in both digital and hard copy formats.

All of the above documents were additionally donated to the "Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project" archive.  Visit: https://swvalgbtqhistory.org/   Contact person was Dr. G. Samantha Rosenthal, Professor of History at Roanoke College, Salem. rosenthal@roanoke.edu

Walter Holland's unpublished dance memoir of his life in the dance scene of the 1970s and early 1980s in NYC, entitled "Lofts, Sweatpants, Run, Leap: A Dancer in New York City: Modern and Postmodern Dance From One Dancer’s Perspective 1970 - 2020" was donated in 2023 in both digital and hard copy formats to The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library, along with physical materials about the Graham dancer Helen McGehee and her husband sculptor and artist Rafael Alfonso Umaña Mendez.

Walter Holland's books are to be found at the General Research Division of The New York Public Library Main Branch, Fifth Avenue, NYC.

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