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Papers of Michael and Janis Neubecker, co-founders and past Presidents of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Downriver, Michigan (PFLAG Downriver). Michael Neubecker served as the PFLAG Great Lakes Regional Director and Vice-President/Regional Director Council Chair. Researchers will find records of PFLAG Downriver, materials of other PFLAG chapters and of the national PFLAG organization, and material related to Michael and Janice Neubecker PFLAG activities. Also subject files and photographs.

The Michael and Janice Neubecker papers contain material about Neubeckers' activism, records of organizations in which they participated. Also included correspondence and background material on various subjects related to the LGBT community rights. The collection is organized into three series: Michael and Janice Neubecker Files; Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and Subject Files.

Detroit chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (also called PFLAG) established in 1986 by Bill and Harriet Dart as an informational support group. Records of organization include minutes, financial reports, newsletters, photographs, video cassette recordings, correspondence, promotional materials, clippings, and photographs.

Records of organization include minutes, financial reports, newsletters, photographs, video cassette recordings, correspondence, promotional materials, clippings, and photographs.

Photographs of organizational functions; photo of 1988 PRIDE parade in Detroit and of 1992 rally at the Capitol in Lansing; also videocassette, 1989, produced by the organization, entitled, "Listening, Learning, Loving" and videocassette, ca. 1989, of television programs featuring the organization.