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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.<br /><br /><span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mGP65vYKaPiJSbU1f-9yttWQscoBBGbzrREb0xvFoiI/edit?usp=sharing"><strong>VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID</strong></a></span>
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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.
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Quicksilver Times
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Send all Calandar stuff to the
kalandar kids, 1736 R St., NW, 20009
Everything belou Hated without a
vriee is free to the beet of our
knowledge.
Fri. 5
HAPPY I54TH BIRTHDAY, KARL MARX.'
10am-12:Demonstration of coiling clay
into huge water jars by Nigerian pot
t e r , Kofi Athey. Nigerian pottery
slide and film lecture by Michael
Cardew. (Also from l-3p» 8 on Sat.)
Roosevelt HS, 12th 8 Upshur S t s . , NW
11am: Gl-civilian demonstration
against the war. Andrews Air Force
base. Beltway exit 35.
12pm: Gay Speakers Rally, Lafayette
Park. 16th 6 Pa. Ave.
3pm: Gay student rap session, Community
Bookshop,.2028 P S t . , NW
3:30-7:30pm: Coop Coffeehouse,
Georgetown University Center.
3pm: Netherlands Carillon Concert.
Near the Iwo Jiiia Memorial, Arlington
Cemetary. More Concerts on May 7,
14, 21, 28 and 29.
8pm: Gay Poetry Reading, Community
Bookshop, 2nd floor, 2028 P S t . , NW.
8pm: Film every friday during May at
the Community Bookshop.
12am: Free Gay movies at The Metropole,
411 L S t . , NW.
Sat6
8am: Spring Bird Walk in Glover Archibold
Park with guest leader from Audubon
Society. 44th S Reservoir Rd.
10am-4pm: Kite Festival: in cooperation
with the Japanese Embassy. Bring
your own kite or make one at the park.
Greenbelt Park, Md. Info:426-6816
JACKSON STATE, 1970
12-6pm: Community workshops on Gay
subjects. All Soul's Church, 16th 8
Harvard S t s . , NW.
2pm-dusk: Washington Area Free Univ.
4th annual counter-prom. Bring food,
instruments, kites...whatever to
Fort Reno Park(between Nebraska Ave.
Fessenden,Chesapeake 5 Belt S t s . ; or
behind The Seed on Wisconsin Ave.)
8pm-12: WAFU Coffeehouse at Grace
Church, 1041 Wisconsin Ave.,NK.
Munchies. 387-5437.
9pm: Free Gay Dance 5 Arts Festival,
GM Community Center, 1213 13th St.
Sun.7
9am-5pm: Turkey Run Bike Day: exclusive
use of the northbound lanes of
GW Memorial Parkway, Va., for bicyc
l i s t s from Windy Run to Turkey Run.
Parking 8 rentals at Turkey Run Park
l:30-4pa: Fort Washington Tour: "Man
»
and the River"(oink).Conducted by a
park ranger". Begins below the old
fort, Ft. Washington, Md.
2pm:Gay mass in the park. Area 9,
near 16th 8. Sherrill Dr., NW, Rock
Creek Park.
4pm: Gay-In-Picnic, Area 9 (see 2pm)
Evening: Vigil for Gay Prisoners at
Patuxent State Prison. Cars leave
Area 9 at 6pm. (see 2pm.)
7pm: 29th American music festival:
Orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal
music. Nat'l Gallery of Art, East
.Garden Court. Repeated May 14 S 21.
DIEN'BIENPHU, 1954 May 8 '
lOamSlpm: Bob Brown Puppeteers prean
original production, "Freddy
the King of the Yuks." 4 yrs.8
up. Reservations. Rock Creek Nature
Center, [weekdays)
10am-5:30pm: "If e l e c t e d . . . " Exhibitlon
of more than 80 p o r t r a i t s 6 S00
campaign items of unsuccessful presidential
candidates, from 1796-1968.
National Portrait Gallery. F at 8th
S t . , NK. Daily thru Sept. 4)
11:15,12:15, 1:15: One of a 6 part
series df 45 minute films covering
the work of Edouard Manet, Paul
Cezanne, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat
Henri Rousseau. 8. Edward Munch. Nat'l
Gallery of Art. 6th S Constitution
Ave., NW (also Sundays at 12:1S,
1:15, 6 8 7pm, each week for the next
s ix weeksO
Tues.9
HAPPY 172nd BIRTHDAY, JOHN BROWN!
10am: Rock Creek Nature Center Planitarium
Show. Reservations necessary
at 426-6829. Military and Glover Rds.
NW.(also weekdays at 1 8. 4pm)
10:30am: Picture Book Hour -for 3-5
year olds. Cleveland Park Library,
Conn. Ave 8 Macomb S t . , NW.
VSfedK)
VIET MINH FORMED, 1954
All day: "The Architecture of Washington,
D.C." Exhibit at The Octogon,
18th fi New York Ave., NW(thru May 21)
Center, Military and Glover Rds., NW.
(Roosevelt Island in the Potomac just
below Key Bridge also has long,
quiet t r a i l s . Reach i t off George
Washington Memorial Pkwy. in Va.
7:30-10:30: Gay Womens Open House.
Call 671-3762. Women only please.
7:00pm: Gay Students Alliance general
meeting. Room 213, Student Union
building, Univ. of Md.
8:00pm: Gay Students Alliance Walk In
and Talk session. Room 213(see 7pm)
Thurs.ll
4:00: Picture Book Hour at the
Georgetown library, Wise. 8 R St.,NW
6-10pm: College Park F004. Coop open
at the Catholic Student Center, 4141
Guilford Rd. Info:558-3274 or Cora
338-2030 Ext.10.
6:30pm: Hatha Yoga class 8 vegy dinner.
Sivananda Yoga Society, 811 11th
St.,NW.(M-Th:6:30; Sat:9:30am 5 12,
Sun:3) $2 donation. 347-3355
7pm: Chanting 8 meditation at the
Integral Yoga Institute House, 2445
Porter S t . , NW. 244-5538. $1 donation
7pm: Babagi's Kriya Yoga class. 1818
Riggs P I . , NW. Apt.210.
8:30pm: "The Firebugs"-a man is so
devoted to his buisness interests
that he i s incapable of action In a
c r i s i s . Back Alley Theatre, 1365 Kennedy
S t . , NW. 723-2040. Gen. Adm.-$3,
students-$2, group rates available,
(thru Sunday)
Fri. 12
Today: Order food from your neighborhood
Glut food coop buying club. For
more info call 462-2818.
2:50-lam: Garrish Grape Coffeehouse,
Rockville, Md. 424-3928
3-7pm: Buying clubs get club orders
at Food Coop. Info: 462-2818
5-9pm: Takoma Park recycling center,
Takoma Park Jr. HS, 7611 Piney Branch,
6:30-8:30: Gay men's group at the Radical
Therapy Center, 1724 20th St.,NW
8Dm-lam: Back Door Coffeehouse. Wilson
Ave. 8 Cordell Lane Bethesda Md.
8pm-lam: Women's Song S Dance Fest at
,GAA Hall, 1213-1219 13th S t . , NW.
Singing, dancing, live entertainment,
refreshments. $2 donation to benefit
Wash. Womens Center. Women only pleez m
Sat 13
10am-12 8 2-4pm: 2 shows of indooroutdoor
"do and see festival" for
young people 6-12 years old. Arts 8
crafts, music, puppet show, mime
troupe, tours, treasure hunts, etc.
Smithsonian's National Collection of
Fine Arts, 9th S t . , NW, between F 8 G.
More info: 381-5911 Mary.
All day: Wheaton Community Center
11711 Georgia Ave. Wheaton local
groups. 949-5690 for info.
10am-3pm: Recycle your glass, aluminum
8 paper t o the parking lot
near Nature Center in Rock Creek
Park off Military Rd. (also Sun.)
10am: Meeting Metropolitan Abortion
Alliance, Rm. 410, GW Student Cntr.
21st & H. Guest speaker.
12:30pm 8 2:30pm: Smithsonian Puppet
Theatre. Chi'iren J l , Adults
$1.50. (Sun. alao).
8-11:30 pm: S.O.T.N.A. Coffeehouse,
2723 King St. Alex., Va. Live entertainment,
food, drinks,talk.
9pm: Fabrangen Coffeehouse- coffee,
tea, fold music, food, good r a p s . ..
1627 21st St., NW.
9pm-12:30am: Group Troup Coffeehouse
(Room 112, Student Union, Univ. of
Md. Free food 8 entertainment
Sua 14
10am-12 8 2-4pm:
Live show.
Georgetown.
2-4pm: Free concert at Dept. of Int
e r i o r Auditorium, C St, between
18th 8 19th. Bluegrass music!
2:30-4:3Qpm: Marxist News Analyses,
Alfred Henly 8 guest lecturers,
Rm. 104, Healy, Georgetown Univ.
5pm: Opulent festival $ feast,
Krishna Temple, 2015 Q S t . , NW.
Moal5
I0am81pm:Bob Brown Puppeteers(see
last Monday.)
10am-5:30pm:"If Elected., ' (s<
last Monday.)
I(h30am:Spiritual Vegetarian Lunch
at the Krishna Temple. 2015 Q St.
•Spare Change. (Hon. thru Fri.)
10:30am57pm: Kundalini Yoga class
at the Ahimsa Ashram, 1704 Q St.
7pm: Open Intermediate Hatha Yoga
class. Willoughby Apts, 4501 Willard,
Chevy Chase, Md.(near Wisconsin
6 Western)
lies. 16
10am-4pm: Potter's House coffeehouse
16S8 Columbia Rd.,NW. 383-9697.(Mon)
l:30pm:Picture Book Hour for 3-5 yr
olds. West End Library, 24thSL Sts.
7pm: Freedom or Slavery political
rap session at Freedom House, McLean
Va. Info: Mike Tecton 356-5800
7pm: Open beginners Hatha Yoga class
(see last Monday 7pm.)
WfedI7
CATONSVILLE CAPER
8:30pm: Talk 6 Discussion with Kamal
Boullata, Palestinian Artist on "Art
S Revolution". Community Bookshop,
2nd floor. 2028 P St. Recommended.
S:30pm: Comic opera concert. "Cindere
l l a " . Concert Hall, Kennedy Center.
Thurs.18
4:00: Picture Book Hour at the
Georgetown library. Wise.Ave.6 R St.
6:30pm: Hatha Yoga class 8 vegy dinner,
(see last Thursday.)
7pm:ChantingSmeditation(see last Th)
7pw: Babaji's Kriya Yoga class, (see
last Thursday)
A big bag of tiny leather scraps
free to any leather crafts person
for the asking. Call 387-6688
8pm: Drug rap group at the Free
nic. Wise. Ave. 8 Volta St.
Fri. 19
HAPPY 82nd BIRTHDAY HO CHI MINH
6:30-8:30pm: Gay men's group. Radical
therapy center, 1724 20th St. NW
8pm: Open rap group at Free Clinic-
Georgetown Lutheran Church. -
8pm: Gay Coffeehouse, Room 23S, Student
Union Bldg., Univ. of Md.
8:30pm-lam: Iguana Coffeehouse,
1226 Vermont Ave. 8 N St. 667-1377.
(also Sat.)
Sat 20
10am-12 6 2-4pm: "Day in the Life."
Live show. Old Stone House, M St.
Georgetown.
11am: Support free health; join the
weekly' clean-up of the Wash. Free
Clinic, Wise. 6 Volta PI., NW, in
Georgetown at the Georgetown Memor
i a l Lutheran Church, 96S-S476.
llam-2pm:Third, Circle Coffeehouse,
2811 M S t . , NW.
8pm-12am: Sparc holds Coffeehouse,
Bath S t . , Springfield, Va. Free
admission!
9pm-lam: The Gate Coffeehouse. Folk
8 classical music, movies, discussioi
8 refreshments. 3338 M St. NW, 337-
4283. Free!
Sam-noon: Takoma Park Recycling
Center- Takoma Park J r . HS, 7611
Piney Branch Rd.(Fri. also) M.
Sun. 21
l:30-3pm: The Gate Coffehouse.
Open stage.(see yesterday).
2:30pm: Yoga Body Movement Awareness-
Grace Church, Georgetown.
Group Synergy. Call Dave Dance,
462-6419.
6pm: Radical Therapy open group. Radical
Therapy Cntr., 1724 20th St.NW
7pm: Classical music concert,, National
Gallery of Art.6th 8 Constitution
Ave., NW
8:30pm: Comic opera, "Cinderella",
Watergate.
Man 22
10am 8 lpm: Bob Brown Puppeteers
(see last Monday) -
10am-5:30pm: "If Elected..."
(see last Monday.)
10:30am: Spiritual Vegetarian Lunch
at the Krishna Temple.(see last Mon.)
10:30am: Picture Book Hour (3-5yr.
old) Chevy Chase Branch Library,
Conn. Ave. near McKinley, NW.
10:30am 8 7pm: Kundalina Yoga Clas
ses, 1704 Q S t . , NW. 483-6660.
(Daily)
7-9pm: Expectant Parents classes,
Amerikan Red Cross, 202S E St , NW
Call 857-3623. (Daily)
Tiies.23
6:30-8:30pm: Zen Meditation- Wash.
Area Zendo, 1717 P St. NW (also Th.)
7pm: regular open meeting of the
Peoples Fund at Saja Job Coop office,
1856 19th St. NW.
8pm: Open Gay rap group at Free
Clinic, Wisconsin Ave., NW, Georgetown.
8pm-12am: The Gate Coffeehouse,
(see last Saturday, 9pm.)
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Calendar of events for the period May 5-25, 1972, including numerous events for Gay Pride 1972.
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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.<br /><br /><span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mGP65vYKaPiJSbU1f-9yttWQscoBBGbzrREb0xvFoiI/edit?usp=sharing"><strong>VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID</strong></a></span>
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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.
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Gay
coffeehouse
Are you_tired of having to pay rip
off" prices for watered down drinks?
Tired of having to l i e about your
age to get into a bar? Or not being
able t o get away with lying about
your age? Disgusted with having to
support Mafia-run bars which create
an oppressive "meatrack" atmosphere
for people who are looking for a
chance t o relax and be themselves
for an evening?
The Washington Gay Liberation
Front has started planning a gay
coffeehouse.lt will be run and maintained
almost entirely by gay people
under 21 and is being set up for the
benefit of gay youth in the D.C. area.
Once set up i t will serve soft _
drinks and provide entertainment at
night and act as a center for young
gay people to talk about their problems
during the day.
unfortunately,this takes money.A
fund-raising dance has been planned
but i t will raise only a fraction of
the money needed.The Gay Coffeehouse
can exist only with contributions
from the community.Checks should be
made payable to:
The Gay Liberation Front Coffeehouse
c/.o Howard Grayson ""
And should he sent to:
GLF Coffeehouse .
c/o Howard Grayson
1620 S St. NW
Washington,DC 20009
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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.
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Gay liberation movement--Washington (D.C.)--20th century
Gay Liberation Front (Washington, D.C.)
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Bruce Pennington Papers, 1947-2003
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© Gay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front
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Gay Liberation Front, GLF-DC (Series XVII)
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Collection includes newsletters, flyers, magazines, and fact sheets related to the formation and activities of the DC Gay Liberation Front (DC GLF), including weekly meetings at Grace Episcopal Church; the founding of the Gay Liberation Front house at 1620 S St. NW; proposed protests in DC; a copy of the last issue of </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">Motive</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> (a publication of the Methodist church), which Skyline Faggots members were heavily involved in writing and designing; and Gay Pride 1972, the initial gay pride week celebration in Washington DC. Also included are items related to a DC GLF reunion organized by Bruce Pennington and Theodore Kirkland over the weekend of the April 1993 gay March on Washington. Also includes photographs documenting social and political activities engaged in by DC GLF and its offshoot, the Skyline Faggots Collective, notably marching in Christopher Street Liberation Day celebrations in New York City; participating in Gay Mayday in 1971; and social outings in DC and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The collection also has larger several physical objects related to DC GLF, including banners hung at the Skyline Faggots Collective house at 1614 S St. NW; a yellow, hand-knitted beret worn by DC GLF/Skyline Faggots member Michael Ferri at the September 1971 Philadelphia plenary session prior to the Black Panthers’ Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention in Washington DC in November 1971; and a graphic poster mounted on foam board advertising activities for Gay Pride Week in Washington DC, May 2-7, 1972, which was organized by DC GLF members Chuck Hall, Bruce Pennington, and Cade Ware. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As a whole, these materials help document early post-Stonewall gay liberationist activities through the formation of the first organized gay group in DC after the Mattachine Society of Washington and the Homophile Social League.</span></p>
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The first Gay Liberation Front was founded in New York City shortly after the June 1969 Stonewall riots, as an offshoot of the homophile group the Mattachine Society of New York. The Gay Liberation Front was a revolutionary organization dedicated to overthrowing a sexist, racist, capitalistic society by joining in coalition with other oppressed social groups, such as women, African Americans, the working classes, Chicanos and Latinos, and American Indians. It also asked participants to engage in self-examination, often facilitated in the form of consciousness-raising groups, to rid themselves of their own internalized self-hatred, sexism, racism, and classism.
The Washington DC version of the Gay Liberation Front (DC GLF) was founded following a letter to the editor of the underground newspaper The Quicksilver Times. This letter appeared in the June 9th-June 19th, 1970 edition and was written by Michael Yarr, an Air Force veteran and participant in local anti-Vietnam War groups. It protested the paper’s derogatory use of the word “sucks” in a headline and called for the foundation of a DC Gay Liberation Front. David Aiken, a local gay man who would go on to serve as Washington correspondent for The Advocate, work on the local LGBT Friends radio show from 1973-1982, chair the Washington Area Gay Community Council in the mid-1970s, and found the DC chapter of Black and White Men Together (BWMT), followed up with an editorial in the Quicksilver Times of June 23-July 3, 1970 discussing the proposed group. DC GLF’s first meeting was held at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown on June 30, 1970. Meetings between March and July 1971 were held at St. James Episcopal Church, after which formal public meetings are no longer held. Meeting activity shifts to the GLF House at 1620 S St.
DC GLF participated in a variety of political and social activities in Washington DC before fading after 1972. Political activities included handing out thousands of “Are You a Homosexual?” awareness leaflets to passersby; protesting carding policies at DC gay bars that were biased against African Americans, women, or men in drag; disrupting an anti-gay Catholic psychiatrist’s speech during a conference on religion and the homosexual at Catholic University; protesting against the listing of homosexuality as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) during the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) annual conference in 1971; participating in the Gay Mayday protests against the Vietnam War as part of the larger Mayday protests in May 1971; participating in both the Philadelphia plenary session (September 1971) and the Black Panthers’ Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention in DC (November 1971); protesting the expulsion of GLF members from the Zephyr Cocktail Lounge on the weekend of the RPCC; marching in Christopher Street Liberation Day parades in New York City; protesting police arrests of cruising gay men at Arlington’s Iwo Jima Memorial; and the formation of the first DC Gay Pride Week from May 2-7, 1972, organized by DC GLF members Chuck Hall, Bruce Pennington, and Cade Ware.
Socially, many DC GLF activities centered around a house rented by members at 1620 S St. NW beginning in September 1970. This house became the site not only of a GLF commune, but also helped to shelter gay people and activists in town from other cities and gay youth who had either run away or been turned out of their homes. It was the site of the foundation of the Church of the Community of the Love of Christ, an orthodox Catholic congregation, and was eventually formally named the Gay Liberation Services House in April 1972, providing counseling, a referral service, a library, and a speakers bureau. A combination of internal house tensions and the desire of certain members to engage in more explicitly political consciousness raising led to the formation of an offshoot commune, the Skyline Faggots Collective, in July 1971. The Skyline Faggots Collective was first housed down the street at 1614 S St. NW and, from 1974-1976, at 1733 Q St. NW. More public social activities included cosponsoring the first public gay dance in DC, held November 14, 1970 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, a boat cruise on the Potomac, and picnics in local parks. Members of the Skyline Faggots also took trips to Shenandoah and Harpers Ferry, WV, the latter of which is documented in photos in the collection taken by Steve Behrens.
A DC GLF reunion was held in April 1993 on the same weekend as the gay and lesbian March on Washington. It was organized by Theodore Kirkland, a DC GLF member who would go on to found DC Gay Black Pride, and Bruce Pennington, who helped found the LGBT Friends radio program in 1973, the Gay People’s Alliance at George Washington University, the DC chapter of Black and White Men Together (BWMT), and was one of the first officially-sanctioned gay foster parents in DC.
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Photographs of DC Gay Liberation Front members at various events in the Washington, DC area and in New York City; facts sheets and newsletters about GLF activities; and materials about an April 1993 GLF reunion. Materials focus on early gay liberation activities in DC from both a social and political perspective.
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GLF Members at 1620 S St Collective
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On the floor at GLF House, 1620 S St. NW, Washington, DC, circa 1971
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Reggie Haynes at front. Guy Charles and David Aiken behind him. L-R: Kashi Rahman, Andy Hughes, unknown, Michael Ferri, Tim Corbett, unknown, Shima Rahman, Joseph Covert, unknown
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David Aiken Papers (Series II)
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The collection includes many drafts of articles he had written on the issues confronting the LGBT community of the time. They are rough drafts, with typographical errors, handwritten notes and corrections, and numerous rewrites. They are also an important source for the events and issues of the period. His files also contain primary documents, leaflets, and notes of interviews connected with the articles he wrote. <br /><br />Aiken, a local gay activist, member at one time of the Gay Liberation Front and a resident of GLF House (1620 St St. NW), Washington correspondent for The Advocate, was also a member of the Stonewall Nation Media Collective which broadcast the Friends radio show on WGBT and WPFW radio for nine years. His broadcasts on Friends seem to have complemented many of the stories on which he worked. In the mid-Seventies, he chaired the Washington Area Gay Community Council. He also served as a founder of Black and White Men Together's DC chapter and edited its newsletter. <br /><br />The Aiken Articles <br />David Aiken's drafts of articles he submitted to the Advocate and other publications in the 1970s document many of the local and national issues confronting the LGBTQ community of the period. As such, they are an important resource of people, events, and issues for students and researchers. The collection contains Aiken's handwritten interview notes as well. The draft articles are listed below by topic.<br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR7ZGpQXij9EKhAxYVXnkL-5pIo-T66TtXIxK1Zm_fNsBg4nhoimqkQupb3X0CFM1-Frn-mwtBLMuO4/pub" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID</strong></a>
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Aiken, David L. (David Lewis), 1945-1986
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Some items are online. <br /><br /><span>Open to all people, by appointment, at the </span><a href="http://www.dchistory.org/research/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DC History Center.</a> <span>Collection is available for “fair use.” Material may be protected by copyright.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://dchistory.org/uploads/fa/ms0764.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID</a>
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David Lewis Aiken, 1945-1986
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1971-1986
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WE ARE HOMOSEXUALS: [retyped from a poor quality original]
AS MEMBERS OF THE GAY LIBERATION FRONT
WE DENY YOUR RIGHT TO CONDUCT THIS SEMINAR
It is precisely such institutions as the Catholic Church and
Psychiatry which have created and perpetuated the immorality
myths, and stereotypes of homosexuality which we as homosexuals
have internalized and from which we now intend to liberate
ourselves.
As homosexuals struggling to be free, we make the following statements:
1. We demand that you stop examining our homosexuality
and become homosexual yourselves.
2. We do not seek acceptance, tolerance, equality, or
even entrance into your society with its emphasis on
"cock-power" (read male supremacy). LIBERATION THERE
WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE. For centuries, this system of
power, dominance and possession has produced only
genocidal wars, the profound oppression of women and
racial minorities, and our own repression as homosexuals.
3. We hold the Catholic Church and the institution of Psychiatry
responsible for political crimes committed against
homosexuals such as imprisonment, blackmail, beatings,
psychological rape, and loss of economic security.
WE ALSO FEEL EVERY GAY SUICIDE IS A POLITICAL MURDER!
As representatives of the sexist society that daily oppresses
us you are incapable of speaking for or defining the quality
of our lives. ONLY WE AS HOMOSEXUALS CAN DETERMINE FROM OUR
OWN EXPERIENCES WHAT OUR IDENTITY WILL BE … AND THAT WILL
HAPPEN IN THE NEW SOCIETY WHICH WE WILL HELP TO BUILD.
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We are homosexuals
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Gay rights movement--Washington (D.C.)--20th century
American Psychiatric Association
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Protest flyer
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Washington (D.C.)