1 25 1 https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/b2b5d774706b62e87b0b13f31bbe3e4e.pdf 5ccc075771b63327230b5517b41823a4 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. GLF presents program despite RPCC chaos While the rest of the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention was looking for a place to happen j gay "men and women from arouid the country were meeting, arguing, dancing, shouting, even occasionally sleeping...together. Starting on Thanksgiving Day, almost 300 gay people met in an effort to define their relations with each other, the rest of the movement, and the "straight" world. The effort was not easy. There are many divisions separating gay people, even revolutionary gay people, from one another. The gay men who identify themselves as "femmes" don't want to feel put down by the "butch" anymore. The transvestites and transexuals effectively raised the consciousness of their brothers and s i s t e r s who had ignored or even mocked t h e i r situation. Most gay women met separately from the gay men. Third world gay men also held several separate caucuses. Internal divisions disappeared when gay people got together in the Friday evening r a l l y at Malcolm X Park, however. Joining the almost 7000 revolutionaries in the park, the gay contingent gathered and marched toward the front of the r a l l y . Forming a tight circle, they chanted, "Gay power to the gay people," "Go l e f t , go gay, now pick up the gun." The cry of "Out of the closets and into the streets' reportedly led at least one Panther member to fear that the chant would make people do just that - but his fear proved unfounded, and his effort to hush the gay people was unsuccessful . Divisions were also minimized - at a mass Thanksgiving dinner at St. Stephen's Church, in the collec tive effort during the convention t o feed hundreds of hungry mouths - including those of Yippies and others meeting nearby at American University - and in supporting the brothers busted after a brawl in a bar which would not serve gay people. On Saturday, the gay men decided to accept as their basic position a 16-point platform developed by a t h i rd world caucus of New York GLF. This was an extension and elaboration of the platform written by the male homosexual workshop at the plenary session of the RPCC in Philadelphia. The statement in i t s present form will be discussed by local GLF groups in the coming months, and a final document will be prepared-at another national meeting t o be held sometime next spring, to be organized under third world leadership. Some of the points apply generally to all people in this society, such as the desire for "the abolition of the institution of the bourgeois nuclear family," and for "a free, n on-compulsory education system t h a t . . . p r e s e n t s the entire range of human sexuality without advocating any one form or s t y l e ." There is also a call for "the l i b eration of a l l women." Others are more specific to the oppression of gay people, and especially third world gay people, such as exemption for third world and gay people from the present military. Included in the demands is t h i s aimed at the larger movement: "We demand immediate non-discriminatory open admission/membership for radical homosexuals into all leftwing revolutionary groups and organizations, with the right to caucus. "We believe that so-called comrades who call themselves revolutionaries have failed to deal with t h e i r sexist attitudes-. Instead, they cling to male supremacy and therefore t o the conditioned role of oppressors..." Forms of sexism within the gay movement were dealt with, as well. One form, brought to the attention of some of the gay men for the f i r s t time, was the attitude toward transvest.ites - persons of one sex who dress in clothes of the other - and transsexuals - persons with characteristics of both sexes, some of whom undergo operations to physically become one sex. Representatives were present" from several transvestite-transexual groups, who presented demands for an end to discrimination within the gay world as well as outside. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper 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 GLF presents program despite RPCC chaos Subject The topic of the resource Gay liberation movement--Washington (D.C.)--20th century Gay Liberation Front (Washington, D.C.) Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention Description An account of the resource Article about a program presentation given by the Gay Liberation Front despite the disorganization of the rest of the Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Quicksilver+Times">Quicksilver Times</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Quicksilver Times, December 8-18, 1970, p. 15. 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