Series X: Tim Sally, 1978-1985
Scope and Contents
This series documents the activities of Tim Sally, Rochester,
New York based LBGTQ activist. The majority of the
material is related to Sally’s campaign efforts to elect Tim
- Mains as a Rochester City Council member and includes
newspaper articles, correspondence, speeches, campaign
materials, and correspondence. Other topics include pamphlets
and flyers for gay rights organizations and projects such as,
churches position on the LGBTQ community, HIV/AIDS, and
a pamplet for teens thinking about coming out to their parents.
Biographical Note
Born and raised in Rochester, Tim Sally was active in the
1970’s and 1980’s with Dignity-Integrity, and was a cofounding
member of PFLAG/Rochester and AIDS/ Rochester.
In 1983 he moved to San Francisco to work for AIDS
organizations and since 1985, under the pseudonym of Tim
Hammond, he has researched circumcision customs and
advocated for protecting children’s genital autonomy. He
conducted two groundbreaking surveys of long-term harm
to men from infant circumcision, co-founded the National
Organization of Restoring Men, and produced ‘Whose Body,
Whose Rights? (a PBS documentary on circumcision), and cofounded
the Children’s Health and Human Rights Partnership
of Canada, as well as an activist group in Palm Springs,
California, where he now lives.
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Tim Hammond is a grassroots human rights activist who has
been involved in numerous social change movements. As a
teenager conscientiously opposed to fighting in Vietnam, he
wrote copious letters to Congress urging an immediate end to
the war.
Tim has been committed to Congressional passage of the
U.S. Peace Tax Fund Bill, which would re-direct the military
portion of one’s taxes (currently 50% of every dollar spent by
the U.S. government) toward life-sustaining human services.
He was active in raising public consciousness about women’s
rights and the need for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
In 1987 Tim was among hundreds of men and women arrested
on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to protest its decision
to uphold states’ rights to legislate private sexual behavior
among consenting adults in their own home (a decision the
Court ultimately reversed in 2003).He was a member of the
Children’s Rights Network of Amnesty International/USA
and a member of the National Organization on Male Sexual
Victimization (now MaleSurvivor.org).
1976-1983 – Member of Dignity-Integrity/Rochester,
New York, a ministry to local Catholic and Episcopal
gays, lesbians, their families and friends. He served in
various volunteer capacities ranging from administrative
assistant, newsletter editor, fundraiser, hotline volunteer,
and special events coordinator.
1981 – Co-founding member of PFLAG (Parents and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays).
1982 – Organizer of the first annual Day of Remembrance
of gay/lesbian victims of the Holocaust.
1983 – Co-founder of AIDS Rochester.
1983 – Recipient of the Vinnie Cup, awarded annually
by the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley for
outstanding service to the Rochester (NY) lesbian and
gay community.
1983 – Founding task force member of CREATE: Justice,
a project of the Presbytery of the Genesee Valley to
promote social justice issues affecting lesbians and gay
men.
1984-1987 – Administrative Assistant of the AIDS Health
Project, an agency of the University of California/San
Francisco providing psychosocial support to those with
AIDS and at-risk of infection.
1989 – Co-founded the National Organization of
Restoring Men (NORM), an international network of
groups offering moral and technical support to men
seeking foreskin restoration.
1992 – Founder of the National Organization to Halt the
Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM),
a non-violent, educational and direct-action network of
men working together to end routine infant circumcision
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through a model of education and empowerment of other
men.
1993 – Survey
Coordinator of Awakenings: A
Preliminary Poll of Circumcised Men, an ongoing
grassroots investigation of the long-term adverse
physical, sexual and psychological outcomes to men of
infant circumcision.
1995 – Produced Whose Body, Whose Rights? A PBS
documentary.
1999 – Author, A Preliminary Poll of Men Circumcised
in Infancy or Childhood. British Journal of Urology
International (83, Suppl. 1) January 1999, pp. 85-92.
2012 – Co-founded the Children’s Health and Human
Rights Partnership of Canada with Kira Antinuk, BsN,
Christopher Guest, M.D. and David Saving. CHHRP is
Canada’s first non-profit organization to deal exclusively
with genital cutting of male, female and intersex children.
2015 – Presented findings from the 2011 Global Survey
of Circumcision Harm (GSCH) at the Symposium on
Genital Autonomy: Myths and Multiple Standards in
Frankfurt, Germany.
2016 – Discussed the findings from the 2011 Global
Survey of Circumcision Harm (GSCH) as a guest of
Stefan Molyneux on his popular YouTube channel.
2016 – Presented findings from the 2011 Global Survey
of Circumcision Harm (GSCH) at the International
Conference on Men’s Issues in London, England.
2017 – Lead author, Long-term adverse outcomes from
neonatal circumcision reported in a survey of 1,008 men:
An overview of health and human rights implications.
International Journal of Human Rights March 2017,
21(02), pp. 189-218.
Conditions Governing Access:
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this
series.
Conditions Governing Use:
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is held by the Rochester Public Library. Copyright
of the papers may be held by the authors’, or authors’ heirs or
assigns. Researchers must obtain written permission of the
holder[s] of copyright and the Rochester Public Library before
publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most
papers may be copied in accordance with the library’s usual
procedures unless otherwise specified.
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Bibliography
Hammond, Tim. “Tim Hammond.” Global Survey of
Circumcision Harm. Accessed December 21, 2017. http://
www.circumcisionharm.org/hammond%20cv.htm.
Jordan, Susan. “On Circumcision: The First of Two Interviews
with Intactivist Tim Sally.” The Empty Closet 505, October
2016.
Title/Description Instances
Campaign materials for Tim O. Mains for Rochester City Council,
1985
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Documents, 1983-1984 box 2 folder 9
News clippings on Tim O. Mains Council run and other gay rights
issues, 1985
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Pamphlets for gay rights organizations/projects, 1978-1984 box 2 folder 11