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. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Lynne Brown Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Ed Bailey Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Not yet transcribed Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 32:26 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 Ed Bailey (LCCA) Subject The topic of the resource This interview is a part of a 2022 collaboration with LCCA, the Washington Blade and the Rainbow History Project to collect oral histories of LGBTQ-identified people who have lived, played and recreated in Logan Circle for ten or more years. Description An account of the resource <strong>Would you like to listen to this audio?</strong> <br />You can access this audio by following this <a href="https://www.logancircle.org/lgbtq-oral-histories">link</a><br />Please email <a href="mailto:oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org">oralhistories@rainbowhistory.org</a> if you have any questions. Abstract A summary of the resource. Ed Bailey, who grew up in DC, moved to an apartment in Logan Circle in 1994 and bought a home in the neighborhood in 1997 where he has lived ever since. He reminisced about the changes since 1994. Ed wouldn’t frequent the Circle, which seemed unsafe to him at that time. Friends wouldn’t visit him in the 1990’s; there were no amenities. But there was a migration of the gay identity from Dupont Circle, new stores and restaurants and, in 2002, the opening of the gay bar Halo. <em>“…I mean, it's been a very rewarding place to be. I lived for a number of years on Capitol Hill and felt the same kind of sense of community. It felt not as forward thinking. It felt just kind of like comfortable place to be, but kind of an established, comfortable. "This is what we are, and we don't intend to be anything other than this." Logan Circle, it feels like it's willing to kind of grow and expand with the world, and as kind of modernized, and become this, and new. That seems to fit me better, so.”</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/4/2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This interview belongs to LCCA, the Washington Blade, and Rainbow History Project.