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. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. No, not yet transcribed Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Yes, recording available 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 interview with Otto Ulrich Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=7%2F27%2F2001">7/27/2001</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=No+restrictions+on+access%3B+no+restrictions+on+use.">No restrictions on access; no restrictions on use.</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 60s-90s Early gay male experience, Mattachine Society, job discrimination, court cases Description An account of the resource Otto Ulrich recounts working for the Library of Congress as an openly gay man and the discrimination he faced due to his sexuality. He also discusses his involvement with the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights organization in the United States. Abstract A summary of the resource. Otto Ulrich graduated from George Washington University in 1957, after a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania he moved to Washington D.C.. He studied multiple languages including German, Spanish, Latin, Russian and French and taught himself how to read Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. His knowledge of various languages allowed him to work at the Library of Congress where he made bibliographies and indexes of publications from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during World War II. He began at the Library of Congress in 1961 and got promoted to Assistant Head—which required him to fill out medical forms that revealed his sexuality. He left the Library of Congress in 1967 and would go on to work for Melpar Inc. where he received secret security clearance. He transferred to Litton Industries in 1968, but his security clearance was suspended because he was openly homosexual. The U.S. District Court ruled that the government could not ask personal questions about homosexual behavior or deny security clearance if sexuality questions went unanswered in the Ulrich, et al. v. Laird, et al. case of 1972. Ulrich recounts meetings for the Mattachine Society which were held in private apartments where members often used only their first names or aliases to avoid losing housing or their jobs. He attended demonstrations at the State Department, the parking lot of the Pentagon and the first March on Washington in 1971 (a protest against how federal and local governments were ignoring the AIDS epidemic). He moved to Virginia in 1981 and joined the Northern Virginia Gay Activist Alliance. Ulrich passed away on 12 Sept. 2001.