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The PFLAG Tampa collection includes materials related to the Tampa chapter of PFLAG, a national LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, as well as materials related to organizations with which PFLAG Tampa and its founders, John and Nancy Desmond, collaborated. This collection contains a significant volume of materials related to Tampa Pride, the group which organizes the annual Tampa Pride Festival, both from PFLAG's involvement with the festival and John and Nancy Desmond's time as board members for the organization. Materials in this collection include organizational documents, promotional materials, community resources, and events ephemera and realia.

This collection contains materials related to music conductor Phillip Spurgeon who was a professor at and Florida State University from 1972-2003. Subject matter concerns orchestral conducting practice and pedagogy in the late twentieth century, related to music performed by the FSU Symphony Orchestra from 1972-2003 in the United States and Europe. This collection contains annotated musical scores, along with a few concert programs, memorandums, research notes, performance and rehearsal notes, and correspondence.