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                <text>Documents relating to the Gay Women's Alternative of DC from 1980 to 1993. includes committee reports, ephemera, newspaper clippings and program announcements. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From 1981 to 1993, the Gay Women's Alternative of D.C. served as an essential educational and social focus for the metropolitan area's lesbian community. The organization dedicated itself to presenting an alternative to the closet and to the bars for the area's women, by providing lectures, social events, and discussions, often at the Washington Ethical Society. GWCDC became known for its dances for women, particularly its signature Spring Cotillion, and for its involvement with other women's events in the area including the summer Sisterfire musical extravaganzas and the Passages conferences. In 1985, GWA-DC presented its first conference. The initial organizers included Ina Alterman, Trish Bangert, Bonnie Becker, Susan Geiger, Maryl Kerley, Ann Meltzer, Lil Russo, and Joyce Sideman. By 1993, facing competition from a growing array of competing lesbian organizations, the demands of running a major social organization, and the group's inability to meet speakers' and performers' growing requests for payment (GWA had from the outset determined not to pay such fees), the board of Gay Women's Alternative decided to close down the organization following its final Spring Cotillion in May 1993.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRrHRW9S4p4M2LbE8Ot_uy0s29zU0-WxmmuAc1mdFyw-B29zuwkrTGp2ajcMR5VfDL8j97idIwbmXZ_/pub" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;span&gt;Available to all people, by appointment, at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://dchistory.org/library/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;DC History Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;. Collection is available for “fair use.” Material may be protected by copyright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRrHRW9S4p4M2LbE8Ot_uy0s29zU0-WxmmuAc1mdFyw-B29zuwkrTGp2ajcMR5VfDL8j97idIwbmXZ_/pub" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VIEW ONLINE FINDING AID&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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            <text>January 8, 2007&#13;
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Media Advisory&#13;
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Vigil to Honor Murder Victim Lee Person “Diamond”,&#13;
Local Transgender Person&#13;
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Family and friends of Lee Person better known throughout the community as “Diamond”, joined by members of the local and national transgender community, will gather for a candlelight vigil in front of her building where she lived and was brutally murdered inside her apartment last week in the 3900 block of Kansas Avenue, N.W.&#13;
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Transgender women continue to be murdered with horrifying frequency in Washington, D.C.  Nationally, a transgender woman is murdered on an average approximately once per month.  “Diamond” was the second homicide in the District of Columbia for the new year of 2007.&#13;
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Is has been reported that police are still investigating the crime, but do have a suspect in custody believed to be her partner.&#13;
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Who:	Family, Friends and community leaders of “Diamond”&#13;
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Where:	3921 Kansas Avenue, N.W.&#13;
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When:	Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 5:30p.m.&#13;
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Contact:	Ms. Earline Budd – (202) 903-6413/ 2) 636-1646&#13;
		Ms. Gi Gi Thomas – (202) 904-4008&#13;
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