Bruce Pennington Papers (Series IV)
Title
Bruce Pennington Papers (Series IV)
Description
Consists of personal correspondence and photographs; career resumes, diplomas, and school documents; topical files and documents including the Gay Liberation Front-DC; business files, manuscripts, and newsletters from his tenure as president of Black and White Men Together-DC; files of NAMES PROJECT: AIDS Memorial Quilt, memorabilia and obituaries of prominent members of the Washington, DC community, drafts of articles for The Advocate. Also includes collected ephemera including gay-themed t-shirts, buttons, periodicals, and videotapes.
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Creator
Pennington, Bruce C., 1947-2003
Bruce C Pennington was born in Rugby, ND on September 17, 1947 and died in Washington, DC on August 26, 2003. He arrived in Washington, DC in the autumn of 1968 to work initially for Liberation News Service. In Washington, DC he was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front (1970-1974), founding member of the Stonewall Nation Media Collective, producers of the Friends radio program on WGTB-FM and WPFW-FM (1973-1982), of Black and White Men Together-DC, and of the Rainbow History Project (2000-2003). He served on the Washington, DC Human Rights Commission from 1988 to 1991. Pennington worked professionally as a chef and restaurant manager and a teacher of English. As one of the first gay men to serve as a foster parent to a gay youth, he gave credibility to the gay foster parenting campaign.
Bruce C Pennington was born in Rugby, ND on September 17, 1947 and died in Washington, DC on August 26, 2003. He arrived in Washington, DC in the autumn of 1968 to work initially for Liberation News Service. In Washington, DC he was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front (1970-1974), founding member of the Stonewall Nation Media Collective, producers of the Friends radio program on WGTB-FM and WPFW-FM (1973-1982), of Black and White Men Together-DC, and of the Rainbow History Project (2000-2003). He served on the Washington, DC Human Rights Commission from 1988 to 1991. Pennington worked professionally as a chef and restaurant manager and a teacher of English. As one of the first gay men to serve as a foster parent to a gay youth, he gave credibility to the gay foster parenting campaign.
Access Rights
Some items are available online. Collection is available for “fair use" to all researchers at the DC History Center as MS 0764 RHP, Series IV Pennington. Material may be protected by copyright.
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Collection Items
Do It With Friends WPFW-FM 89.3
Do It With Friends WPFW-FM 89.3. Bruce Pennington, a founder of the Stonewall Nation Media Collective, produced and broadcast radio program WGTB and WPFW from 1973 to 1982.
Gay Pride '72
Group of attendees at Gay Pride '72. Although this was included with a number of photographs related to Gay Liberation Front-DC, and Washington D.C. did have its first Gay Pride Week in 1972, it is unknown whether this photograph was taken in…
Bruce Pennington dressed as a priest for Halloween with male friend dressed as a nun
PIcture taken at 1414 17th St, NW, #413
Washington, DC 20036
Washington, DC 20036
GLF presents program despite RPCC chaos
Article about a program presentation given by the Gay Liberation Front despite the disorganization of the rest of the Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention.
Gay brothers unite in rage
Article about the trashing of a straight redneck bar by members of the Gay Liberation Front after being refused service.
Events calendar
Calendar of events for the period May 5-25, 1972, including numerous events for Gay Pride 1972.
Letter to the editor re: use of the term "sucks"
![Letter to the editor re: use of the term "sucks"](https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/2fe871226efc3ca33656c1bf342fc049.jpg "Letter to the editor re: use of the term "sucks"")
Letter to the editor re: the use of "sucks" as a derogatory term and the inherit homophobic underpinnings of the term.
Radical gay paper comes out
Article announcing the Breadbox, a local Washington, D.C. radical gay newspaper.