Bruce Pennington in drag as Aurora Borealis
Bruce Pennington
Photographer: Blue Skies studio
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Gay Liberation Front-DC at the Gay May Day march
Gay Liberation Front (Washington, D.C.)
Gay pride parades--Washington (D.C.)--20th century
Photographer: Steve Behrens
Washington Blade, Inc.
Pat Kolar (pen name for Patricia Price), editor of the Gay Blade talking about its history.
Price, Patricia
1974
Sound
Gay liberation movement--Washington (D.C.)--20th century
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Rainbow History Project
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Gay men--Washington (D.C.)
Proferes, J. J. (James J.)
H. Lynn Womack Papers, 1945-1994, Collection number 7441, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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Article about the gay liberation movement
Quicksilver Times
Quicksilver Times, Juy 14-24, 1970, p. 8.
© Quicksilver Times
Gay pride celebrations--Washington (D.C.)--1971
Community newspapers--Washington (D.C.)
Gay newspapers--Washington (D.C.)--20th century
Article announcing the Breadbox, a local Washington, D.C. radical gay newspaper.
Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention
Article about a program presentation given by the Gay Liberation Front despite the disorganization of the rest of the Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention.
Quicksilver Times, December 8-18, 1970, p. 15.
Archives Gay community
White t-shirt. Front: "Gay is Good" Back: "Rainbow History Project"
Gay liberation movement--United States
Red Flag Union
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Gay musicians--United States
Red Shoes Walking
Red Shoes Walking performing Nikita Marlena
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Friends (Radio Program)
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This is a video recording of a reunion held for the Gay Liberation Front DC.
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Wallace Leo Corbett Jr Pioneers Portrait
Portrait of Wallace Leo Corbett Jr, AIDS educator and recipient of a 2015 Community Pioneers Award.
Richard Haight (photographer)
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Atul Garg and Yassir Islam Pioneers Portrait
Portrait of Atul Garg and Yassir Islam, founders of KhushDC and recipients of 2015 Community Pioneers Awards.
Kameny, Franklin, 1925-2011
Nichols, Jack
Gay liberation movement--1975
Jack Nichols and Frank Kameny sitting on a couch
Richards, Theodore Tyson
Jack Nichols Photographs and Papers, 1955-2005
1975
Women artists
Pink t-shirt. "Sisterfire. A 2-day open-air festival of Women's Culture. Roadwork '84" open-air festival celebrating women artists held in Takoma Park, MD
Roadwork, Inc
1984
Articles of Incorporation of the Gay Activists Alliance of Washington DC
Gay Activists Alliance
The articles of incorporation of the Gay Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C.
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February 1972
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R.M. Coggin's testimony on behalf of bill 65-83
Suburban Maryland Gay Alliance Bill 65-83, Montgomery County Maryland Montgomery County Code, Chapter 27, Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Coggin's remarks at the public hearing on including LGBT protections in the anti-discrimination laws of Montgomery County, MD.
Robert Mitchell "Judge" Coggin
28 November 1983
These remarks were prepared by Coggin and delivered by him on behalf of the SMGA, later SMLGA, for the public hearing to amend the county codes to include LGBT-protections against discrimination in housing, employment, and public services.
Form letter to the Montgomery County Commissioners, re Bill 65-833
Coggin's letter sent to members of the committee
Undated. [Fall 1983?]
This is a copy of the letter of support for the amendments that was sent to the various members of the Montgomery County Commission.
Gay clubs--Washington (D.C.)
Gay bars--Washington (D.C.)
African American gays--Social life and customs--20th century
ClubHouse sound clip from a recording of an entire evening of Tito Robinson's playlist at The ClubHouse
Robinson, Tito
Clubhouse Enterprises (Washington, D.C.)
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