https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/b056ba7eea5abb8877ecc2600de132b2.pdf 8f30a2279d3b790d1c93887308bbf71b 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. GAY PEOPLE: HAVE-WE COME THIS FAR ONLY TO LEAVE BEHIND SOME OF US? As you know by now, Washington's gay organizations have begun a series •-- *# of legal actions, including a weekend picket, against the new:Lost and Found on L Street, Southeast. Why? Because of flagrant discrimination against gay blacks and women. L & F's racist policies were explicitly acknowledged by Bill Parry, representing the Lost and Found management, in an October 15 meeting with Paul Kuntzler of GAA, a 10-year veteran of the Washington gay movement. Parry declared: "This is a Southern city." (A reference to when Washington had legalized segregation twenty years ago.) He said that if possible, the Lost and Found would bar all-black people, and clearly indicated that the principal -~ reason for L_&_F's I.D- was to exclude as many gay blacks as- possible. This is how the Lost and Found game is played: Two pieces of I.D. are required, Parry says. A driver's license and a "passport or a birth certificate." Such conventional identification as a"draft card or a government employee I.D. card are not acceptable." However, generally only black gays are asked for identification—whites are not, except those who actually appear under age. What are the objectives of the L & F game? Parry intimated that the Lost and Found is only interested in serving the most affluent gay crowd, primarily white suburbia, (in a black ghetto!) Parry rationalizes that "black people are generally poor and, besides, most of our patrons are bigots." In any case, the Lost and Found does not want to cater to those gays, black or white,"who spend only $2.25 a night in our bar." Now, to answer two questions: It's true that some token blacks are seen in the Lost and Found. The. bar has no choice but to admit those few blacks who are willing to meet L & F's I.D. requirements. It is also true that the I.D.s of many whites are now being checked—as a temporary response to the picket line outside. However, Washington gay organizations are not interested in momentary pretenses at non-discrimination. We will accept only their uncompromising agreement to end all discrimination against all gay people--a resolution that provides the necessary guarantees. In regard to women, the Lost, and Found's double-standard dress requirement for women will not be tolerated. If men can wear blue jeans, so too can women. Many of you have said that you think it distressing that homosexuals are fighting one another. We agree. Let's resolve this conflict. We ask the Lost and Found management to begin discussions with us. We, too, think the Lost and Found is beautiful. We congratulate them. And when they change their oppressive policies, the club will be even more beautiful. In addition, we are fully cognizant of their substantial investments and the need to make a return and a good one. However, we will not allow them to realize extravagant profits at the expense of the human dignity and freedom of certain gay people. £5>&T5S, - 2 We who represent you in our struggle to improve the quality of gay life have come belately:to the recognition that we are not just the defender of white, male homosexuals, but the representative of all gay people. The Lost and Found management will have to recognize, too, that the year is 1971; those days when Washington was a "Southern city" are gone. All of us, finally, should understand that either we are all together or none of us is together. As gay people we have advanced too far to now leave behind some of us who are black or female. *•*##-*-*•#•#•* The following Washington gay organizations request that the Lost and Found end their racist, sexist, immoral, and illegal policies and implement the list of our 10 demands necessary to resolve this conflict: The Mattachine Society of Washington Evangelical Catholic Community • The Black Caucus Gay Activists Alliance* Alabama Avenue Collective Skyline Faggots The Breadbox Gay Women's Open House Student Homophile Assn. of the Univ. of Maryland Easter Day Collective Hand-to-Hand Newspaper 1971 Kameny for Congress Campaign Committee • • The Women's Film Festival "Our House" Collective Gay Liberation Front Gay Men's Open House Gay Campus Ministry of the Univ. of Maryland Applecore Collective Metropolitan Community Church (Motion passed last Sunday by Church membership) Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Mimeographed flyer 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 Gay people : have we come this far only to leave behind some of us? Subject The topic of the resource Gay bars--Washington (D.C.)--20th century Discrimination against African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--20th century Committee for Open Gay Bars (Organization) 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=Committee+for+Open+Gay+Bars">Committee for Open Gay Bars</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bruce Pennington Papers 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&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1974-10-23">1974-10-23</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Reproduction+and+use+of+this+material+requires+permission+from+the+copyright+holder.+Please+contact+the+Rainbow+History+Project+for+more+information.">Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from the copyright holder. Please contact the Rainbow History Project for more information.</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Washington (D.C.) 1970s African Americans Bars and clubs Discrimination Gay bars and clubs Lost and Found Racism