Third Decade After Stonewall: A Gay & Lesbian Agenda for D.C. in the 90s
A platform for action by activists and DC government officials for the 1990s.
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April 1990
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This form was created after the passing of "The Health Benefits Expansion Act" of DC on 11 June 1992, which created a domestic partner registry. Congressional riders prohibited the use of federal or local funds to enact the law, blocking registration. Per the description of the form's primary author and donor Mindy A. Daniels, this form was made part of an Executive Order signed by then DC Mayor Sharon Pratt, just moments before the Congressional defunding. Mindy Daniels came up with this form of registration so so that domestic partners could register without using government monies, which was prohibited by Congress when they defunded the legislation. As DC government staff were prohibited to deal with the matter, a certified mail postal receipt that it was submitted to the government was all that was necessary for the domestic partnership to be deemed valid.
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Flier for the first annual "Walk Without Fear" march against hate violence (15 Nov 1991, Dupont Circle).
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"The Last Minority: Gay & Lesbian Lawyers Speak Out" cover story from The Washington Lawyer (Nov/Dec 1993)
Cover story from this issue is a profile of 6 out gay and lesbian lawyers in DC. Coverage is pages 20-31, with a letter from the editor on page 5. Per conversation with Mindy Daniels, participant and donor of this issue, there were very few out lawyers willing to speak to the author and be profiled in such a prominent publication.
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November / December 1993
Per conversation with Mindy Daniels, participant and donor of this issue, there were very few out lawyers willing to speak to the author and be profiled in such a prominent publication.
Oral history interview with Jonathan Blumenthal (1969- ) and Eric Cohen (1968- )
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Oral history interview with Nicholas Shi, 1958 -
Gay Chinese-Latino immigrant faces racial tension and a struggle with personal acceptance coming out in the gay community in the early 1980's.
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1986-present Nicholas Shi was born in El Salvador to full-Chinese parents, but moved to United States for college to escape building civil conflict. Shi moved to Washington in 1986 to start work. Not yet fully out of the closet, he secured brief relationships through The Washington Blade and frequented many gay bars and restaurants in Dupont Circle, where he often felt invisible. He sought out company from other Asians and eventually helped found and manage the social group 'Asians and Friends' even running their newsletter and marching with the group in early Pride parades. He experienced a lack of community among gay Latins but found a home in the Asian community despite tensions over Asian fetishes and emasculation. He and a partner bought a house between Dupont and Logan circle in 1986 and has lived there ever since, noting the changes in the neighborhood, which he borders with P St and 16th St NW. The rest of the family remains in the El Salvador with varying levels of acceptance of his sexual orientation and marriage to a long-term partner. He talks about 'de-gaying' the house when his relatives came to visit, until eventually coming out. Places mentioned include Lambda Rising bookstore, Friends, a showtunes piano bar, Mr. P's, P Street Station, The Fireside, JR's, Trumpets, Lost & Found and The Glory Hole. Includes brief commentary from Shi's husband.
Bruce Pennington in drag as Aurora Borealis
Bruce Pennington
Photographer: Blue Skies studio
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Gay Liberation Front-DC members on a trip to Harper's Ferry, WV
Gay Liberation Front (Washington, D.C.)
Photographer: Steve Behrens
1971
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Bruce Pennington of Gay Liberation Front-DC participating in the Christopher Street Liberation Day parade in New York City
Christopher Street Liberation Day parade
Outside of Bill's Flower Market, heading north up 6th Ave. at 28th Street
Gay Liberation Front-DC members and others at Christopher Street Liberation Day parade
Christopher Street Liberation Day
At least two members of Gay Liberation Front-DC march with others in Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, likely 1974
likely 1974
c. 1971
Gay activist Frank Kameny and Gay Liberation Front member Theodore Kirkland
Theodore Kirkland at Christopher Street Liberation Day
Christopher Street Liberation Day (New York City)
likely 1971
Former members of Gay Liberation Front-DC
Former Gay Liberation Front-DC members at City Center 55th Street Theater [now known as New York City Center, 131 W. 55th St.]
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Gay Liberation Front-DC member Steve Behrens
David Aiken
Seventh Anniversary Celebration of the Gay Community Center Resolution of 1985
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14 May 1985 Resolution: 6-140
Gay Community Center of the District of Columbia's 5th Anniversary Recognition Resolution of 1983
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26 April 1983 Resolution: 5-121
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Gay and Lesbian Pride Week Declaration Resolution of 1986
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27 May 1986 Resolution: 6-674
Gay and Lesbian Pride Week Declaration Resolution of 1984
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Declaration of Gay and Lesbian Pride Week in the District of Columbia Resolution of 1982
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Secretary to the Council Vivien R. Cunningham
6 April 1982 Resolution 4-448
Oral history interview with Jodi Morrison, 1945 -
1970s-1980s. Jodi Morrison is a trans woman who came to DC as Joey Morrison in 1972. In this interview she discusses her involvement with the DC LGBT community in the 70s and 80s, describing many bars, clubs and restaurants where LGBT individuals gathered. She also discusses her service in the US Navy before coming to live in DC, as well as her transition from male to female, which she began while living in DC and continued after she left DC in the 80s.
Oral history interview with Vincent E. Slatt, 1979 -
15 November 2014
2003-2014 Vincent Slatt was born in Indiana on March 26, 1979. In this Rainbow History Project (RHP) oral history Slatt discusses his background, relocation to the Washington, DC, area, and his work in DC’s gay community. Interests in languages and research opportunities in Poland led Slatt to the district in 2003. Slatt describes arriving around the time of Capital Pride 2003, his involvement as a Capital Pride volunteer, and his work on planning committees in subsequent years. Slatt worked on Pride from 2004-2008—years in which the Whitman-Walker Clinic (clinic) sponsored and planned the event. Slatt was a founding member of Capital Pride Alliance (CPA), the organization that organized Capital Pride when the clinic selected a non-profit to take over managing the event. Slatt discusses volunteering for the planning committee for Capital Pride 2008 and his involvement in creating the successful CPA proposal in response to the clinic’s 2007 request for proposals to take over management of Capital Pride. Slatt also describes his three year term (2008-2011) as secretary on the CPA board of directors. In 2013 Slatt began volunteering with the Rainbow History Project, a membership organization committing to documenting the district’s gay community. Slatt discusses RHP collections (e.g. Cheryl Spector’s personal papers), public events, and community programs.
Oral history interview with Lynne Brown, 1955 -
9 December 2014
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1974- 2014 Brown focuses on her business career at the Washington Blade newspaper, and begins with a description of her ancestral ties to North America's early European settlers. She came out as a lesbian in 1974 at Syracuse University, where she found strong acceptance partly rooted in the period's feminist politics. Brown moved to DC in 1977 in search of a local lesbian community she had started to discover through a college girlfriend and the publication "off our backs." She joined a car dealership and met the local activist Mary-Helen Mautner as a customer; Mautner introduced the young saleswoman to lesbian gathering places including the Owl and Tortoise, the Bachelor's Mill and Phase 1, and to several feminist theorists behind the journal,"Quest: A Feminist Quarterly." Brown became involved with groups that included the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington, the DC Area Feminist Chorus (later renamed Bread and Roses), and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, where she served as treasurer on the board of directors. The Blade hired Brown for an advertising sales role in 1984, after she had returned to DC from a costly one-year stay in San Diego with another girlfriend. Shannon Rodes, the sales manager who recruited Brown, soon resigned from her position so the women could begin a relationship that remains ongoing. Brown discusses the Blade office's culture; the classified section's critical role in connecting readers over the 1980s and 1990s; and the struggle to sustain revenue as Craigslist and social media applications gained prominence. She touches intermittently on subjects that include local Pride celebrations in the 1980s; the prominent gay nightclub Tracks; ambivalence over her business career as an avowed critic of capitalist institutions; and business disruptions linked to the 2001 anthrax mailings. The firm Window Media purchased the Blade from the newspaper's employees in May 2001, and Brown details an intensive staff and community campaign to save the newspaper after the company moved to halt its publication in November 2009. They published as the "D.C. Agenda" until April 2010, when staff members retook ownership of the "Blade" brand. She concludes by considering the future of newspapers and of "the gay community," and by describing efforts to digitize the Blade's sizable archive.
"Stepping Out: A Celebration of the Interfaith History of LGBT Welcoming and Affirming in Metropolitan DC, MD, and VA" Panel Discussion
DC Center Faith coordinated an interfaith celebration of the history of D.C. area welcoming and affirming congregations. The celebration highlighted the longevity and momentum of LGBT Welcoming Movement from its beginnings to its powerful present. Milestone moments were submitted in advance, and a DRAFT timeline was created in advance and circulated amongst participants. It was then reviewed, augmented to, and will be the core for future documentation. LISTEN ONLINE Part 1 of 1
Rev. Eric Eldritch DC Center Faith Rainbow History Project Westminster Presbyterian Church
16 November 2014 Westminster Presbyterian Church, SW, DC
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