American Indian Studies

"research collected by Burns, a Native American activist and co-founder of Gay American Indians (GAI). The collection contains extensive materials on AIDs and associated outreach programs, as well as documents related to the berdache, or two-spirit (third gender) tradition of Native American peoples. The collection also features work by and about a number of individuals associated with GAI, including Mohawk poet Maurice Kenny, anthropologist Walter Williams, and scholar Will Roscoe."

"The Will Roscoe Papers and Gay American Indians (GAI) Records include private and professional papers, clippings, correspondence, and research related to gay American Indians."

"hundreds of distinct societies around the globe have their own long-established traditions for third, fourth, fifth, or more genders"