https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/027cbf45edbf645ac3007b94ed0b476f.jpg cd3f949a74b1926d4ab66b47a8bc9460 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 Lesbian Pride [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. Initially, men and women had worked together for Gay liberation. In the early 1970s, some women reacted to the domination of the men in Gay organizations. Many Lesbians espoused separatism and encouraged Gay women to form their own caucuses and committees, and their own organizations. Lesbian feminists ceased calling themselves Gay and embraced the word Lesbian and the pejorative Dyke. Prominent in the separatist movement was a Washington-DC based collective called the Furies, founded in 1971. They believed that Lesbians had to build their own political movement, and rejected working with men, Gay or straight. In 1975, the Lesbian Feminist Liberation organized the first Lesbian Pride Rallies in New York City which grew to become Lesbian Pride week in 1978. That same year, under increasing pressure to embrace the word Lesbian, New York’s Christopher Street Gay Pride Rally changed its name to Gay & Lesbian Pride Week. Increasingly thereafter, other cities included Lesbain in their Pride names. The 1979 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was the first time Lesbian was used before Gay in a public forum. The first Dyke March held in Washington, DC, was organized by the Lesbian Avengers as part of the 1987 March on Washington. Exhibitions