Gay wit and humor Gay pride celebrations
White t-shirt. Front: Rainbow triangle. "2SXE2BSTR8" Too Sexy To Be Straight Back: "I Love Being Exactly Who I Am. Pride Day 1995. New York"
Rainbow History Project
1995
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Gay pride celebrations
Black t-shirt. "Gay Pride '84. A Celebration" Origin unclear. Likely Washington, DC Pride.
June 11-17, 1984
Gay community
White tank top. "Out!" within triangle. OUT: Oppression Under Target, a LGBT activist organization in DC that grew out of the 1987 March on Washington local organizing committee, and was active until the early/mid 1990s
Safe sex in AIDS prevention
White t-shirt. "Safe sex is Hot Sex. You are not immune. No somos inmunes!" Image of two women embracing.
Steven Meisel/King Cole, Inc
1991
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Rainbow History Project T-shirts Box 1
African American lesbians African American gay men
White t-shirt. Multi colored triangles. "Black Gay Pride '97" Unknown origin. Likely affiliated with Washington, DC.
1997
AIDS (Disease) and the arts
White t-shirt. "The Names Project" with a purple background
AIDS (Disease)
White t-shirt. Front: "City of Hope Workout for Hope Against AIDS" Back: "The Fitness Event of the Year!"
1994
Leather clubs (Organizations)
Red t-shirt. Image of an eagle and a boot. "MAL '98" Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend
1998
Black t-shirt. Image of a flame. "Centaur MC Olympia XVI" Centaur Motorcycle Club (Centaur MC) consists of a group of men with an enthusiastic interest in motorcycles, leather and other men.
Black t-shirt. "Leather Reunion. Centaur MC-Mal 2002" Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend Centaur Motorcycle Club (Centaur MC) consists of a group of men with an enthusiastic interest in motorcycles, leather and other men. Event held at Nation Nightclub: 1015 Half Street SE.
January 20, 2002
White t-shirt. Front: "AIDSWalk 1994. A Community Fundraising Project of Whitman-Walker Clinic. Together We Can Fill Our Sadness with Hope!" Back: "Together We Can Fill Our Streets with Hope!" List of sponsors.,
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Gay community Gay wit and humor
White t-shirt. "Made in Gay America" United States colored pink.
Gay press Gay rights
White t-shirt. "The Advocate Celebrates 25 Years 1969-1994"
World AIDS Day
White t-shirt. "World AIDS Day- Time to Act!" Image of stamp "USA 29 AIDS Awareness" "1 December 1993"
US Postal Service
December 1, 1993
World AIDS day
White t-shirt. World AIDS Day. 1 December '94. Protect and care for the ones we love. American Association of World Health.
December 1, 1994
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Radio stations, American--United States Gay liberation movement--Washington (D.C.)
Do It With Friends WPFW-FM 89.3. Bruce Pennington, a founder of the Stonewall Nation Media Collective, produced and broadcast radio program WGTB and WPFW from 1973 to 1982.
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MS 0764 Series IV Bruce Pennington Papers Box 6
Gay military personnel--United States, T-shirts
play on the law prohibiting gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the military, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell between 1994 to 2011 White t-shirt, Do Ask Do Tell,
Gay rights--United States, AIDS (disease), t-shirts
Black t-shirt ACT UP, Silence = Death, Pink Triangle Another copy of this shirt is located at the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
AIDS (Disease) and the arts T-shirts
Fight AIDS, ACT UP, Silence = Death, Ignorance = Fear
Keith Haring
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Gay rights--United States
White t-shirt. Lincoln memorial and pink triangle. "March on Washington, April 25, 1993"
April 25, 1993
White t-shirts. "Capital Pride. June 1st-8th, 2003. Washington DC" Back: "Capital Pride" Image of Capitol dome with multi colored hands.
June 1-8, 2003
“Eradicating This Menace”: Homophobia and Anti-Communism in Congress, 1947-1954
Randolph Baxter; rbaxter@Exchange.fullerton.edu
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Dissertation
Oral history interview with Tom Goss, 1981-.
Tom Goss, a musician now living in Los Angeles, recounts his arrival in D.C . for seminary school, his musical career and its intersection with gay rights advances in the late 2000s, and meeting his partner.
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1990s-present Tom Goss was born in Quincy Illinois, and moved to Washington, D.C., to attend seminary school. After leaving, he began a musical career while working for a nonprofit serving the homeless, Charlie’s Place. The music he wrote spoke to central gay rights fights of the 2000s, including the repeal of DADT and marriage equality. As a result, he partnered with gay-rights organizations such as the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), for benefits and awareness raising efforts. He discusses his relationship with his sexuality, meeting and marrying his husband, and his support for Bears. Discussion covered: DADT, DOMA, Marriage Equality, SLDN, The New Gay (blog), Bear Happy Hour at Town, Cobalt.
Oral history interview with Ellen Kahn, 1963-
Oral history with Ellen Khan, director of the Children, Youth, and Families Program at the Human Rights Campaign and former Lesbian Services Program Director at Whitman-Walker Clinic.
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1990s to present. Ellen Khan is currently the director of the Children, Youth, and Families Program at the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C. Kahn has worked at LGBT organizations for most of her life and the Human Rights Campaign is her first nationally focused job. Prior to working at HRC, she also worked at Whitman-Walker Health (formerly Whitman-Walker Clinic) for thirteen years. While there, she served as the third director of the Lesbian Services Program. In addition to that work, Kahn serves on the board of Rainbow Families DC, an organization that she raised up to what it is today. Kahn, the mother of two daughters, tells her story of growth in the LGBT community in D.C. since she moved here in 1993. She highlights some of her proudest accomplishments such as her work with HIV/AIDS in the 90s, Maybe Baby queer parenting support groups, and HRC’s Welcoming Schools program, which promotes LGBT inclusive environments at elementary schools across the country. Kahn also shares her experiences of being an active participant in the D.C. LGBT social scene.