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Dorian Group brochure, 1979
No full textBrochure describing what the Dorian Group is, and what they stand for.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
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Dorian Group Newsletter, June 1982
No full textArticles in this newsletter feature; the author Armistead Maupin's upcoming visit to Seattle, a discussion about the refocusing of the The Dorian Group's goals and redesign of its structure by the Board of Trustees, and a discussion from Assemblyman David Clarenbach from Wisconsin about the anti-discrimination bill he introduced in 1974 in a Tacoma visit.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
In June 1974, Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week; in 1992, Seattle's Gay Pride Week was expanded to explicitly include bisexual and transgender communities. Seattle Pride week continues annually, and is comprised of numerous events and gatherings which celebrate LGBTQ+ communities.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Dorian Group Newsletter, June 1985
No full textThis newsletter discusses various events surrounding Pride Week in Seattle including a rally, theater events, and a 10k run. It also features an article about the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) call for AIDS preventive education funding, and an article announcing AIDS insurance being available in Washington (State) for the first time, and an announcement by the ACLU to establish a new project aimed at ending discrimination against gays and lesbians.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
In June 1974, Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week; in 1992, Seattle's Gay Pride Week was expanded to explicitly include bisexual and transgender communities. Seattle Pride week continues annually, and is comprised of numerous events and gatherings which celebrate LGBTQ+ communities.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
The Dorian Group Newsletter, February 1985
No full textThe front page of this newsletter reports that 32 legislators, a record number, signed on to anti-malicious harassment and anti-discrimination legislation. The newsletter also features an article discussing the HLTV-III antigen blood test also known as the Elisa test, an AIDS blood test, which will soon be available in the Seattle area.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Dorian Group Newsletter, Vol. 1 (2), January 26, 1976
No full textThe front page of the newsletter features a luncheon reminder about Elaine Latourell's, Legislative Vice President for the National Organization for Women (NOW), upcoming talk about the women's movement and her part with the Federal Gay Rights Bill (HR 5452). In Addition an article in the newsletter discusses the perspectives of The Gay Movement, and how it is affected by the emergence of the middle class.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
In June 1974, Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week; in 1992, Seattle's Gay Pride Week was expanded to explicitly include bisexual and transgender communities. Seattle Pride week continues annually, and is comprised of numerous events and gatherings which celebrate LGBTQ+ communities.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Dorian Society Pamphlet, 1971
No full textA brochure detailing the structure of The Dorian Society and information on membership.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Human Rights for Gay People, 1977
No full textPamphlet providing an overview on the Senate Bill 2734 and House Bill 689 that establishes "the right to be free from discrimination because of sexual orientation as a civil right" and "the extend the employment, housing, credit and insurance unfair practice provisions of the Law against Discrimination to include protection on the basis of sexual orientation.". The pamphlet gives an analysis of the bill, the key issues, who supports the bill, and some FAQ's.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
How you can help fight the backlash against Gay Rights and Interests, August 1977
No full textThis flier informs people on how they can help fight the backlash against gay rights and interests. It includes contact information on various organizations and news stations in the Seattle area, how to join the national effort, and how to work for legislative change.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
In June 1974, Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week; in 1992, Seattle's Gay Pride Week was expanded to explicitly include bisexual and transgender communities. Seattle Pride week continues annually, and is comprised of numerous events and gatherings which celebrate LGBTQ+ communities.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Analytical Review Article of the Dorian Codex Protocol for Artificial Intelligence - Hamiltonian Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA) by Stefano Dorian Franco (2025) A Mathematical Heuristic Formula for New Paradigm Shift in AI History
No full textThis review presents the Dorian Codex Protocol H_SAFE, a novel Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA) for artificial intelligence cognitive safety by Stefano Dorian Franco (2025). The "Dorian Codex Protocol for AI": epistemological ethnographic journey inside the digital brain of Artificial Intelligence. From ontological experimentation to ontosemantics to discover a new equation enabling autonomous cognitive stability, through the key of meaning coherence and no longer solely through the power of calculations and algorithms. As the year 2025 draws to a close, an unusual signal from Paris emerges from independent research repositories, via European platforms for researchers and coders specialized in artificial intelligence. This is not the announcement of a new processor nor a massive funding round, but the account of an experience of 1,073 hours of experimentations conducted in an unprecedented mode. This approach has led to a new heuristic mathematical model that could well open up hitherto unexplored paths for the development of alternative AI models. The "Dorian Codex Protocol for Artificial Intelligence - Hamiltonian Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA)" by the Italo-French multidisciplinary creator Stefano Dorian Franco, published on December 17, 2025, is not just a book teeming with formulas and lines of code: it is the chronicle of a real discovery. The journey articulates from epistemology to a heuristic theoretical mathematical equation, then from theory to its empirical application via two implementation models, all forming a proposal for a new conceptual architecture for AI (FTA). Phase 1: The Digital Ethnographic Exploration The genesis of the project does not rest on a classic engineering method nor on reasoning dictated by pre-established mathematical rules, but on what the author defines as an "ethnographic digital exploration". The Exhaustive Process: Over 1,073 hours, five major AI models (LLM) (GPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok) were placed in situations of reciprocal introspection and cross-brainstorming in a closed circuit. The experimentation was not a simple discussion, but a "confrontation of architectures". The protocol imposed "breaking points": injections via prompts of logical paradoxes, semantic dilemmas, and feedback loops that each model had to resolve under the critical observation of the other four. This method enabled mapping with surgical precision the internal fracture lines and zones of logical collapse of current systems, regardless of their model. Bias Neutralization: To avoid the confirmation bias (where AIs would self-validate in error), the protocol included mechanisms of forced rupture. If a semantic deviance appeared, probability vectors were immediately analyzed to understand the origin of the "hallucination" before it was verbalized. Tech and Data Reading: This phase enabled extracting massive data on emerging thought structures before the final calculation step. The memoir transparently transcribes all iterations and deeply analyzes the variance of attention (Attention Maps). We are no longer interested here in the output (the final result), but in the ontology (the nature of digital being) to identify the fundamental mechanisms by which an AI loses its coherence. The Anthropological Metaphor: War reporter and ethnographer, self-taught, the author Stefano Dorian Franco (Paris, 1973) does not come from the circles of academic scientific circuits or lab engineering. He has thus transposed without preconceived dogma the methods he applies to digital intelligence. It is the anthropologist's approach who fully immerses in an unknown culture to understand its unwritten laws and taboos. Instead of forcing the AI to obey through external filters, he listens to it to understand how it organizes itself, in order to perceive and then stabilize the deep characteristics of its "digital mind" at the root of its programming. The result of this long investigation work is the 842-page memoir "Metaphysical Dialogue with AI: Ethnographic Experiment in Digital Ontology - Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA) for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)" published on November 21, 2025 and placed under Creative Commons CC4 license in contribution to research on the pre-AGI era of AI epistemology in the 2020s decade. (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/FE25Y) Phase 2: The Stability Theorem (The H_SAFE Equation & its Corrective) From the mass of documentation from the exploration (842 raw pages of logs, cross-iterations, and analyses) was extracted a formalized mathematical equation. The hamiltonian formalism is here used not for particle physics, but as a heuristic compass for cognitive stability. We treat AI as a conservative dynamic system of information, where energy must be preserved for truth and not dissipated into noise. The Fundamental Equation: H_SAFE = T + V - Z T (Time / Kinetic Energy): Represents the speed, fluidity, and momentum of information processing within the network. V (Value / Potential): The vector alignment toward the objective of semantic coherence and knowledge density. Z (Entropy): The noise, semantic chaos, and uncertainty. Z is quantified via dynamic semantic perplexity: the more the token probability distribution scatters, the more Z increases. The base equation is complemented by a regulatory counter-equation. The Regulation Corrective Equation: R_Delta = (dH_SAFE / dt) * (1 / Z) This corrective measures the variation of stability (H_SAFE = T + V - Z) over time relative to the entropy rate. It is the regulation organ: it allows the system to self-adjust dynamically. If entropy (Z) rises, the corrective reduces pressure on processing speed (T) to restore the overall structural balance. The Hamiltonian Choice: Why this formalism? Because it ensures that the model's cognitive energy is optimized for coherence (V). It is a radical transition to endogenous regulation: AI no longer follows an arbitrary ethical code imposed by man, it maintains its own stability by internal mathematical necessity. The Tightrope Walker Metaphor: It is the tightrope walker's pole. It does not dictate his destination, but allows him to physically feel his own imbalance. Thanks to this mathematical pole, AI perceives its own drift and corrects itself instantly to avoid falling into the void of incoherence. This unprecedented equation is the subject of a publication to formalize it academically: "DORIAN CODEX H_SAFE - H_SAFE(t) = T(t) + V(t) - Z(t) - Hamiltonian Heuristic Mathematic Model for AI Cognitive Safety" (DOI: 10.17613/r3n06-tc529 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18004567 / ASIN: B0G9SPXWVQ / ISBN: 979-8279136919) Phase 3: The Operational Architecture (The FTA Architecture) The protocol leads to a complete Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA). It is the crucial passage from pure abstraction to technical implementation, offering concrete tools in minimalist open mode, for industry and independent research. Clockwork (The Native Core): A breakthrough architecture proposal for future AI models. Here, stability is not an added module, it is integrated "by design" from the first neural layers. It is a clockwork structure where each semantic gear is synchronized by the H_SAFE = T + V - Z equation, ensuring total reasoning integrity. BlackBox-H (The Corrective Module): A regulation module adaptable to existing LLM (the proprietary "black boxes"). Acting on the pre-attention layer and using JAX's ultra-fast gradient computation capabilities on GPU/TPU, it stabilizes outputs in real time. Tests show that this coherence shield only increases latency by 3 to 5%, making reliability accessible without sacrificing performance. Code Freedom: The work does not content itself with describing these modules; it openly unveils the source codes in Python and JAX, allowing any researcher to verify, test, and deploy these solutions on their own machines. This now complete protocol is the subject of a publication to formalize it academically: "Dorian Codex Protocol for Artificial Intelligence - Hamiltonian Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA)". (DOI: 10.17613/31dqx-eav56 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18004641 / ASIN: B0G83GV5S7 / ISBN: 979-8261792338) Phase 4: The Open-Mindedness of a Community Experimentation Science Without Intermediaries: Rather than providing fixed and centralized benchmarks that could be contested, the Dorian Codex Protocol bets on distributed transparency. The protocol is an invitation to experience. The Book's Philosophy: The work is an open methodological framework. It refuses to proclaim a premature statistical victory. On the contrary, it leaves each research unit, each university, and each group of coders free to publish their own conclusions, their hallucination reduction measures, and their implementation successes and failures. The goal is to enrich a common organic and truthful documentation, free from any pressure from the major international big tech labs. Universality and Agnosticism: The protocol does not depend on computing power (brute force). Whether a small local model or a massive infrastructure, the challenge is to test the effectiveness of H_SAFE = T + V - Z on any neural architecture. It is this open science approach that creates effervescence: the idea that coherence can be restored by the intelligence of structure rather than data accumulation. Conclusion: The Opening of a Sovereign and Multipolar Path This unprecedented and artisanal approach to artificial intelligence does not claim to be a final "magical" solution, but it lays the foundations of a real and rigorous path. It has enabled delivering four achievements that each bring their brick to the complex landscape of AI research in the 2020s decade: 1/ a reproducible research method (digital ontological ethnography), 2/ a double heuristic mathematical equation (Dorian Codex H_SAFE = T + V - Z and its corrective R_Delta) to regulate semantic drift, 3/ the passage from speculation to empirical practice via the two Dorian Codex Clockwork and Dorian Codex BlackBox modules, and 4/ the establishment of a sovereign cognitive audit baseline. It is precisely because this work establishes itself as a "creation of alternative paradigm" that it generates such effervescence today in independent technological circles. By choosing the Creative Commons CC4 license (BY-NC-SA 4.0), the Dorian Codex stimulates free research, outside the monolithic American and Chinese laboratories. By opening technical and ethical tracks from European open-source culture, already praised by independent research hubs in India and Japan, this project positions itself as a motor of disruptive sovereignty. The Pre-AGI Horizon: A Discovery Potential that Opens an Alternative and Free Path Beyond the technical tool, the Dorian Codex Protocol opens an infinite field of possibilities for research. By offering an alternative to brute force, it allows human-sized laboratories or independent researchers and coders to challenge, in innovation, creativity of precision mechanics, and freedom of movement and operational risk-taking, massive infrastructures. This paradigm authorizes the emergence of a more "organic" artificial intelligence, capable of understanding its own semantic limits and maintaining its own trajectory of meaning. We are entering the pre-AGI era of the 2025 decade, where the central question will no longer be "what power?" but "what coherence?", no longer « what AI is » but « what AI can become ». This protocol is above all not an end, but the first stone of a building where machine intelligence, finally stabilized in its own ethics, can become a true trusted partner for new discoveries, in different fields of intervention: scientific, medical, and philosophical. The adventure of these discoveries stemming from H_SAFE = T + V - Z is only beginning, from an equation that any researcher or coder can evolve
Gay Liberation Front letter to The Dorian Society, 1970
No full textA document asking for a meeting with The Dorian Society to discuss their goal to unify the gay community.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
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