https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/14b2ddd908d521a921df4923ee6f754e.jpg add4066124871b8fc6d73651e4f4b1ce 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 Protests Challenges [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. In the late 1970s, Gays and Lesbians and their straight allies loudly and visibly confronted efforts to roll back civil rights protections. In 1978, the DC City Council failed to issue a Pride proclamation, but Pride went on as scheduled. AIDS challenged DC Pride to give visibility to new issues. Pride assumed a responsibility to remind the city of the lives being lost to AIDS. On the even of the 1983 Pride festival, the Hughes-Roosevelt Democratic Club led the city’s first AIDS vigil at Lafayette Park in front of the White House. The following year, there were calls to cancel Pride to focus funds on combating AIDS, but Pride went on as planned. In 1986, a nationwide backlash against AIDS caused Pride and its sponsor, the Whitman-Walker Clinic, to lose their insurance coverage, putting at risk primary sources of GLBT health care and public visibility. The City Council took over insurance provision for both organizations. Whitman-Walker Clinic