https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/7f9b62b03533594a23633647d43291e5.pdf 797f3515c66bfee6753ecab3fe32afee 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. -M'~ Page 8 July 14-24, 1970 Quicksilver Times Gay Liberation by a radical lesbian Four girls and two dogs pulled into thebusy corner in the heart of Green : wich Village where a crowd of gays and'\straights mingled, argued, and confronted each other last week. I Off to the side, three smiling sisters warmly directed us to the Women's Center -- the Church of the Holy Apostle. TheTe we discovered a really, tumed-on group of "Liberated women" and joined them for a weekend of consciousness- raising and getting it together. First a pot-luck supper — what a feast! We swapped recipes and samplet cheeses, breads and salads. Remember way back when "cooking is the way to a man's heart" and "make someone a good wife" s h i t ) . This time i t was | just friends breaking bread together. An a l l women's dance downstairs brought over a hundred of us together. (After some previous dances with gay men the women realized that the maledominated affairs oppressed then and they preferred sisters only events.) Late in the night, the more p o l i t i - -v cally-minded adjourned to create slogans and banners for Sunday's his- i t o r i c march, commemorating the Christopher Street gay r i o t one year ago protesting a police raid of a gay bar. As the wine flowed so did our '"' true sentiments'. Encouraged by s i s ters we boldly wrote -- "Lesbians Unite," "Gay is...ummm Groovy"; "I am .. a Lesbian and,I am Beautiful,"."Hi Mom Guess What," " The Lavender .Menace loves your daughter," "We are the type of women our mother warned us about." Into the morning we talked of the fu- -.-• ture of gay liberation, of women's liberation -- of the inevitable c o n nection between the two, of our newly-: emerging consciousness and fulfillment with each other; of personal and polit i c a l alternatives. The next day, apprehensive and excited, we joined forces. Over ten thousand of us merged, a coalition of gay groups, militant and moderate, from all over the east coast. A large number of Washington gays found each other; reuniting with old friends embracing new ones. Crowds lining the sun-lit sidewalks were questioning, identifying, shocked, s i l e n t. A motherly figure shook-her finger at me saying "But'Why wouldn't you let me live my l i f e as I wish? I t 's just as good with ,a man i s n ' t i t ? I replied, "You are questioning^ yourself. Why are you here? Examine your own unease when confronted by . other women with what we feel is a better life style. Are you'fami 1 with the concept of "the woman as nigger?" This means that women hav. . too long accepted and like you even defended their oppression by continu ing to be treated as nice, empty packages to be kept by their men." A psychiatrist benignly preached, " I t ' s not your peoples? fault. It's, your upbringing, your parents, a ; 'traumatic experience." I responded ''To me, i t ' s not a matter of cause K or fault, as you so academically put; it». Any more than heterosexuality K i s . In this society at this time, w the only sane thing for us to be is i lesbian. Our society is sex-obsesseu So i t mistakenly labels our efforts V to extricate ourselves from being treated as merely sexuaf objects as a sick sex substitute. Actually we have something better in mind. Love and Self-fullfillment for example. Within the straight society we have only.roles to relate to the "opposite sex." We are not yet persons." Some of the s i s t e r s and brothers seemed friendly. But many lesbians preffered to march together. The "Queens" led the show. The Gay Liberation Front, the Lavender Menace, the Gay Activist Alliance, Mattachine Society participated. We started down Sixth Avenue. (Tax out, I thought. Queers with a parade permit proudly marching through Manhat- "tan. And theipolice who had a year ago provoked the protest now "protecting" the protesters. One out of six. How many cops?) Cameras snapping along the route. Traffic stopped for an eleven block unity. On the sidelines, friends clapped and Blushed as the chants of "Gay Power" and "Out of the Closets and into the Streets" gained s p i r i t along the line of march. ' Women with their companions, men with their buddies, unidentifiable as gay or straight. How many of you out there are with jus in s p i r i t , how many will be with ius in body next year. It sure wouldn't have been me last year! Two "hip" appearing, denim-clad males jumped behind the lesbian banner. I was apprehensive. "Hey, your brothers are up ahead." '.'We'd rather be here," they replied. "Say, are you gay?" "No, but I've always wanted to make i t with a lesbian," leared the bearded-one. "Off the pig sexist", we shouted. Steamy pavement, tired feet, good vibes, thirsty dogs. • One fanat i c on the side lines had really gone'to a lot of trouble with an Amerikan flag and a sign "Sodom and Gomorrah." "Look at that queer." "Not a bad fag." More comments from the marchers. He was threatened. Hostile. What compelled him to so have to prove his masculinity, to overcompensate? What a mixture in.the movement; pretty g i r l s , strong women,, college students, black, oriental, white. We were t i r e d , relieved, happy. We had shared with our gay s i s t e r s a new-found pride. And now Gay Liberation Front comes to D.C. For those sisters and brothers who are ready to "come out and l i v e , " we meet Tuesdays at 8:00 pm in Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper 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/. 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