1 25 7 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 Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Lynne Brown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Jeff Travers Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 54:42 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 Oral History with Jeff Travers (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. Right out of Georgetown University in 1991, Jeff Travers was hired by Jim Graham to work at Whitman Walker Clinic. He recalls Whitman Walker programs such as supportive housing for people with AIDS. <em>“People would leave us their houses… or I think we bought a lot of property back in the day when things were pretty cheap. We had a combination of supportive housing, independent living. We had one hospice type house, and they were not small operations because you were investing in staff resources to run these places.”</em> <br /><br />Jeff recounts serving as an ANC commissioner and dealing with difficult conflicts of a changing neighborhood, such as “NIMBY” opposition to plans for a new facility for N Street Village. Jeff bought a condominium in one of the mansions on Vermont Avenue in 1992 for $92,000 and later moved to a larger apartment down the street with his partner. Jeff left for Chevy Chase DC in 1998 in search of a larger home in a walkable neighborhood. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/14/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project. 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 Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Lynne Brown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Nicolas Shi Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:14:50 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 Oral History with Nicolas Shi (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. Nicolas Shi immigrated to the United States from El Salvador for college and moved to Washington, DC for work in 1986. He and his husband bought a house in Logan Circle in 1988 and continue to live there. Nicolas, an acclaimed artist, works out of his studio in the lower level of their house, and he was selected as an artist for Let’s Paint the Streets. (See his work on the utility box at the southwest corner of 15th and P Streets.) He was instrumental in forming MidCity Artists with several other Logan Circle artists who organized open studios. There were a lot of artists around 14th Street: five artists created studios in the basement of a building next to the Crew Club; another studio was in a house next to the Garden District; and an artist had a framing shop on the second floor of Bar Pilar. Nicolas describes social life in Logan Circle. He and his partner would host parties for Asians and Friends and at some point, their party would move to gay bars such as Lost &amp; Found. Afraid of crime, some friends wouldn’t come to parties in Logan Circle. Nicolas notes that people didn’t want to go east of 15th Street, and he refers to “walking blocks,” those that felt safe, and “running blocks,” blocks to move through quickly. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/22/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project. 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 Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Jeff Donahoe Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Sak Pollert Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2:11:09 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 Oral History with Sak Pollert (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. Sak Pollert, owner of Rice, is a 31-year resident of DC having emigrated from Thailand in 1991 and connected to the gay community through Asian and Friends. <em>“Having the niche with a place to connect to meet people, that made me feel safe. And that’s what that group was about.”</em> He lived in Dupont Circle and considered 16th Street to be the boundary between safe and unsafe streets. Introduced to Studio Theater by a friend, he realized the potential of Logan Circle but nonetheless started his first business “Simply Home” on 18th Street, NW, a store often confused with “Home Rule” on 14th Street, NW. Sak got to know the close community of merchants on 14th Street – Home Rule, Go Mama Go, Vastu, Muleh, Pulp and others. He opened Rice in 2003. <br /><br />Sak’s interview focuses on the evolution of businesses and restaurants on 14th Street, mourning the loss of the business that opened in the 1990’s. Sak observed, <em>“The word ‘gay neighborhood’ got lost into this modern time… because of technology and apps…. In the past, we felt more of a neighborhood, a gay place, a gay bar, and gay life is because the fabric of society is different than now.”</em> He added,<em> “So that’s how I still feel, ‘Okay, this is still a gay neighborhood, but is there any specific gay business or this or that like in the past? No.’ “</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/6/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project. 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 Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Lynne Brown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. John Guggenmos Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:13:02 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 Oral History with John Guggenmos (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. John Guggenmos, a transplant from Wyoming, moved to Logan Circle in 1989 to attend college. He settled in a group house at Logan Circle for the cheap rent. <em>“But it was beyond the magic line of 15th Street where, even at that time, that was not an acceptable part to walk beyond. It was a very, very different neighborhood back then. Very different. Thank God cabs were zoned, because you could come anywhere, and then for $2,80 get home within in the one zone.”</em> <br /><br />John, who served on the ANC and its committees and has owned restaurants and bars in Logan Circle, covers a number of topics in his interview: the gay movement westward from Dupont Circle, the evolution of the Pride parade, real estate trends, public safety and even dog-walking in Logan Circle. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/17/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project. 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 Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Lynne Brown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Marc Fallow and Larry Rosen Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 53:32 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 Oral History with Marc Fallow and Larry Rosen (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. Marc Fallow moved to Logan Circle in 1980 and Larry Rosen in 1981, and they lived in a group house at 19 Logan Circle after answering ads on a bulletin board at Lambda Rising and in The Washington Blade. Marc was drawn to neighborhood by articles in The Washington Post about the area’s resurgence. Larry, moving from the Maryland suburbs, was seeking a place more suited to <em>“a youngish queer person.”</em> <br /><br />They capture that time with anecdotes about a neighborhood in flux; limited dining, drinking and shopping in Logan Circle and the trek to other gay hot spots in the city; gay musical groups; and gay activism. To quote Marc, <em>“I am glad that we were the age we were when we were, where we were, at Logan Circle.”</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/16/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project. 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 Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Lynne Brown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Ed Bailey Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 32:26 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 Oral History with Ed Bailey (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. Ed Bailey, who grew up in DC, moved to an apartment in Logan Circle in 1994 and bought a home in the neighborhood in 1997 where he has lived ever since. He reminisced about the changes since 1994. Ed wouldn’t frequent the Circle, which seemed unsafe to him at that time. Friends wouldn’t visit him in the 1990’s; there were no amenities. But there was a migration of the gay identity from Dupont Circle, new stores and restaurants and, in 2002, the opening of the gay bar Halo. <em>“…I mean, it's been a very rewarding place to be. I lived for a number of years on Capitol Hill and felt the same kind of sense of community. It felt not as forward thinking. It felt just kind of like comfortable place to be, but kind of an established, comfortable. "This is what we are, and we don't intend to be anything other than this." Logan Circle, it feels like it's willing to kind of grow and expand with the world, and as kind of modernized, and become this, and new. That seems to fit me better, so.”</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/4/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project. 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 Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection Description An account of the resource Eye-witness accounts of what we’ve seen and experienced provide a valuable resource to researchers and future generations to understand our past and how we arrived where we are today. Each interview in this collection has a narrator telling the story and a documenter guiding the process. Collected since the founding of the RHP, this collection is growing and is open to researchers. All interviews have been digitized and are described in the catalog; only some of them have transcripts available. None of the interviews stream online. To obtain access to an interview, you must request by contacting us directly, providing a brief description of your project and your research interests. Our email address is: info AT rainbowhistory DOT org One of our team will share the file from our Google Drive, and you can listen from home. Please be sure to have "Music Player for Google Drive" enabled on your machine to play the recording. www.driveplayer.com Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. To see all interviews in the collection, click on "Items in the Rainbow History Project Oral History Collection" link below. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rainbow History Project Various narrators per oral history Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Lynne Brown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Maurice Dorsey Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet available Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:10:15 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 Oral History with Maurice Dorsey (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. <div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html"> <div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="sqs-html-content"> <p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Maurice Dorsey is a thirty-year resident of Logan Circle, an author, a former ANC commissioner, and former employee of the University of the District of Columbia and the USDA where, among other things, he helped LGBT employees become successful in the workplace. He related stories of two long-term relationships and how they quietly lived their lives – going to the Kennedy Center, sharing newspapers at coffee shops.</p> <p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Maurice recalled that in the 1990’s there was a perceived divide between 14th and 15th Streets, NW given drugs, crime and prostitution along 14th Street. Annie’s on 17 th Street NW was a safe restaurant for gays to dine out. Friends and Halo were bars of choice. Reflecting on the changes he has seen, Maurice said, <em>“Logan Circle was not the Logan Circle we know now…If you walked out my front door and turned right to go to 15th Street, you would have thought you were on the Champs-Elysées with the beautiful trees and everything, the cars zooming up and down the street. But if you turned left…14th Street was just dreadful.”</em></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sqs-block audio-block sqs-block-audio sqs-stretched"> <div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="sqs-audio-embed"> <div class="yui3-widget sqs-widget sqs-widgets-audio-player dark first-play"> <div class="sqs-widgets-audio-player-content"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/15/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project.