https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/1ff7614f72e92425b88427c95c3d60b5.jpg 9d72cef6e05c2de045af8f45d18616bf 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 Remember Their Names [Exhibit Panel] Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. In 1987, the Names Project Quilt, documenting those who had died from AIDS< was displayed on the National Mall for the first time. It covered an areas larger than a football field and included 1,920 panels. By 1988 the number of panels had increased to 8,288. In 1996, the display of the AIDS Quilt covered the National Mall from the West Front of the Capitol building to 14th Street, making it one of the largest public arts projects ever conceived and realized. The quilt memorialized the Gay community’s mounting losses to AIDS, and paradoxically, it also celebrates hopes. Public displays of the quilt in the nation’s capitol emphatically rejected homophobia and the social stigma attached to AIDS. Each panel recorded an individual loss. It was then sewn to its neighbors, creating a community of strength, hope, and pride.