https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/c312cb33d642a35862cc1fe55216a268.jpg 8ab67b8671265ea8fff93ef2cad43bd8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ourstory: Pride in the DMV Collection, 26 Description An account of the resource In May 1972, Washington, DC's GLBT community celebrated its first Pride. The previous two years, gays and lesbians had gone to New York City to celebrate the Stonewall anniversary. In the winter of 1972, the Gay Liberation Front-DC proposed a local celebration, though they scheduled it a month and half before New York's celebration so that people would not have to choose between the events. DC's initial Pride celebration was as much a protest as a celebration, following almost exactly one year after Gay Mayday and the anti-war Mayday demonstrations had closed the streets of the city. This marked the first public celebration of gay and lesbian pride in Washington DC. Organized by the Gay Liberation Front, the festival drew support from All Souls Church, the Community Bookshop, the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay People's Alliance of George Washington University, Henry Street (one of the houses of the Awards Club, a local drag organization) and the Metropole Cinema. The principal organizers were Chuck Hall, Bruce Pennington, and Cade Ware. This collection includes materials from Gay Pride, Capital Pride, DC Black Pride, and other Pride-related festivals and events. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dardano, Robert. Photographer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stonewall Riots [Exhibit Panel] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. The seeds of Gay Pride go back to June 1969. Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a Gay bar in New York City, forcefully and publicly resisted police harassment. Although the Stonewall Riots were not the beginning of the modern Gay rights movement, they became the preeminent symbol of Gay and Lesbian resistance and changed the movement forever. In the early morning of June 28, New York City police raided Stonewall Inn. Police raids on Gay bards were routine at the time, but numerous raids in recent weeks had created a tinderbox atmosphere. The death of Gay icon Judy Garland provided a spark, and this time the crowd, fed up with continuous harassment, fought back, throwing bottles and barricading the police inside the bar. News of the riot spread. Protesters filled the streets shouting “Gay Power” and openly engaged in defiant public displays of affection. The protests continued for several more evenings, swelling to an estimated one thousand people until the police shut down the protest in an extremely violent retaliatory attack. In the fall of 1969, groups led a commemoration of the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. On June 28 1970, one year to the day of the raid on the Stonewall Inn, several hundred Gays and Lesbians gathered at a “Gay-In” that grew to thousands of participants. Similar celebrations occurred the same day in other cities. June became Gay Pride month as a logical following of the annual commemorations of Stonewall.