1 25 1 https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/a527aa1b61804e6f58f0c6437e541b49.pdf 5c04b1610881b41999ec65fa0014fe85 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 Bruce Pennington Papers (Series IV) Description An account of the resource 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. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mGP65vYKaPiJSbU1f-9yttWQscoBBGbzrREb0xvFoiI/edit?usp=sharing">VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Some items are available online. Collection is available for “fair use" to all researchers at <a href="http://www.dchistory.org/research/">the DC History Center</a> as MS 0764 RHP, Series IV Pennington. Material may be protected by copyright. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mGP65vYKaPiJSbU1f-9yttWQscoBBGbzrREb0xvFoiI/edit?usp=sharing">VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 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. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Page 4 June 23-July 3, 1970 Quicksilver Times Gay Liberation CslA£ I tt?& to by d. ail^en , The "gay l i b e r a t i o n movement has f i n a l l y reached Washington. People who identify themselves \as homosexuals and who want t o openly confront the repression they feel came "out of the closets and into the s t r e e t s " long ago in other major c i t i e s such as New York, Los Angeles, §an Francisco, and Chicago. • ' T h i s week (June 22-28) is Gay Pride Week, ft marks the f i r s t anniversary of the. "Christopher Street R i o t s , " when the gay brothers and s i s t e r s of New York City fought off a gang of cops who were trying to bust a Greenwich Village gay bar. This was the event in which gay people f i r s t "came out" and t o l d Puritan Amerika t o shove off. The anniversary is being celebrated in c i t i e s across the country. I t takes a while for such consciousness to reach our n a t i o n 's k a p i t a l , i t seems, but things are now moving. The last issue of Quicks i l v e r carried a l e t t e r from Mike Yarr, an ex-Air Force member who works for the Washington Peace Cent e r , inviting homosexuals interested in forming a Gay Lib group to get in touch with him. Many did. A meeting for everybody who is interested in helping get such a group together has been scheduled for Tuesday, June 30, at 8pm in Georgetown University annex. Some of the aspects of the repression felt by gay people are obvious. They are faced in a l l states except I l l i n o i s with archaic "sodomy laws" which, although seldom enforced, contribute to a furtiveness and paranoia about human relationships which should be open and free. (Even in I l l i n o i s , which repealed i t s "sodomy law" more or less by accident, pips use any number of pretexts to bust gay bars which don't pay enough protection money. Gay people usually try to conceal t h e i r o r i e n t a t i o n from t h e ir employers rather than take the r i sk of being fired. Not all employers would do so, of course, but even a person who i s generally liberal can have a blind dread of homosexuals. Finally, gay people usually have a h e l l of a time finding other gay people. Relatively few gay | people walk around with l i t t le pink booties, lavender lace blouses, and limp w r i s t s , so i t ' s hard to' identify who's gay. Most guys don't have the chutzpah to walk up to another guy and say, "Hey buddy, ya wanna fuck?" So most gays are forced to seek t r i c k s e i t h e r in dangerously public places (parks, t o i l e t s , etc.) or in one of the ghettoized bars, a l l of which must pay off the pigs and many (though somehow not a l l ) of which charge outrageous prices for watered drinks and have a typical at- '"V '*A>~ mosphere of forced f r i v o l i t y. In a word, the gay piers on lives in a ghetto without boundaries. He lives among the s t r a i g h t s , but in his head h e ' s an outsider. Naturally, these forms of repression must be fought. Laws must be changed, firings of gay people must be protested, overpriced gay bars must be boycotted and social events must be arranged where gay people as well as s t r a i g h t people can meet each other in a relaxed atmosphere. These are some of the things Gay Lib groups in other c i t i e s have done. But an even more basic need would remain even i f all these things somehow were accomplished. That is the need for s e l f - r e s p e c t. I t ' s no surprise that the " s t r a i g h t world" expresses i t s dread of homosexual feelings with repressive t a c t i c s . What is really t r a g i c, however, is that those who experience these feelings accept the prevalent notion that they are unspeakable dirt y , e v i l , and s i n f u l , and repress themselves. A s o c i a l psychologist named Martin Hoffman has written a righton book t i t l e d "Hie Gay World," in which he looks at, among other things, the problem most male homosexuals feel in developing a lasting, deep relationship with another guy t h a t ' s not b u i l t exclusively on sex. He says: "To put the matter in its most si rrrp le. te ZWB t , We t re as ons the males who are homostfculaly inclined' cannot•••' .form stable relafloiishipii wit}peach^: r other- is that ^society <i)es not'jjwt^- them to.. .Closeness between men- is'-;^:'-' .-• considered^ si'gn of something wrcnigi; with the individual's .mind, he im~/t .'•'. mediately,di? fines'diimseIf. -as a •'. ,-'''''.'• 7~ sissy, faggot^[degenerate, eta. ..••.•.' Sexual arousal<\provides 'sufficient ... irnpebus ..to overborne, the:sociaI pro-- •' hibition against genital- contact, . . •_;'.' but not to '.overcome the prohibition, against intimacy. To overeom? this. . second kind of condemnation would, :•_' require a kind of freedom from •_''-»''"•' social constraint that is not really to be expected, except in a.few. , ••' [cases. " ' ''• • •': • "' ' \- "'••''' Well, t h a t ' s where Gay Lib .-.'. comes in, folks. ^ Gay is Good. There's no reason why men shouldn't be close to men, and women to women, in a l a s t i n g , loving way. But there's a hell of a lot of internal hang ups to overcome before this can happen. That's why we need a group: Everybody who needs to come to grips with t h e i r feelings, and with the repression they feel in a society which demands conformity, can use a l i t t l e help from t h e i r friends. We want to reach all the people in the area who have homosexual feelings, whether or not they're ready to come out and identify themselves as "gay." I t ' s hard to recognize and deal with desires and feelings that you've been taught are dreadful and unnatural. But i t ' s important to r e a l i z e that they're not "unnatural," that you're not "sick" because you feel them, and that psychiatrists who say something like "all the homosexuals I see are sick" are leaving out the other side: all of the heterosexuals they see are probably sick, too. I t ' s especially important that gay women get together as well as j gay men. There's already enough male chauvinism among heterosexuals; a gay movement shouldn't contribute to it by concerning i t s e l f only with male homosexuality. Women will almost c e r t a i n l y want to have t h e i r own separate rap sessions, but there's a lot that gay men and gay women can do together. Gay people are perhaps the last oppressed group to get themselves together. Blacks, Indians, Puerto Ricans, women - everybody's getting organized. I t ' s time for gays t o surface, join with t h e i r comrades (both gays and right-on s t r a i g h t s ) and fight repression in a l l forms. If you want to rap with somebody about the idea of gay l i b , call Mike Yarr during the day at 234- 2000, or at night phone Dave Aiken at 234-4287 or Miles Gritz at 965- 2734. Power to the People! Gay power to gay people! 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