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. Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Daniel Button 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 Donald Button Date Created Date of creation of the resource. January 28, 2006 Description An account of the resource <em><strong>Please note:  Currently only interview notes are avaliable for this item<br /></strong></em> 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. The interview belongs to the Rainbow History Project. The RHP release form was used and all rights belong to RHP. Abstract A summary of the resource. Donald Button came to DC in late 1970 from New York City where he had been active in the Gay Activists Alliance. In DC he hung out with the GLF group. In DC he met Paul ‘Moonbeam’ Bartels who didn’t live in the GLF house. Button lived in the GLF House at 1620 S St NW from the Spring of 1971 and moved out in 1972. Life at 1620 was “chaotic.” The ‘kingpins’ in 1620 were Michael Ferri and Bruce Pennington. After Ferri moved to the Skyline Faggots collective at 1624 S St the dynamics at 1620 changed somewhat. Button moved to a group house in the Mt. Pleasant area. The Skyline Faggots were older, more serious, more introspective, according to Button. They focused more on what does being a man, a gay man, mean. Button was part of the zaps against the APA at the Shoreham/Wardman?. Button was also active in the gay speakers bureau, talking to schools and youth. Mayday GLF’s planning was done at Grace Church in Georgetown. Demo spot as on the M St bridge. There were police infiltrators in the GLF group. They briefly blocked the bridge and when the cops came and shot tear gas they split. A Georgetown housewife offered to hide them and when they got to her door slammed it shut. Button was one of those arrested on the way to the Vietnamese embassy on the second day (May 4th). They were held at 23rd and L until taken to jail. The cells were so crowded that they had to take turns sitting down. They were held less than 24 hours and passed the time signing do wop tunes and eating peanut butter and baloney sandwiches. Button later worked with SAJA’s youth outreach and worked with Loraine Hutchins. He was on a job coop project. For a while he lived with Loraine in a group home in Mt Pleasant.