Oral history interview with David Mariner,
12 Feb 2015
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David Mariner is the current director of the DC Center for the LGBT Community. He grew up in Corning, New York and attended Furman University where he came out and began work as an activist around LGBT issues, HIV, and sex education. His work with Advocates for Youth brought him to Washington, DC where he has lived most of his adult life and worked as a leader in the LGBT community. Topics of the interview include his early life, aspects of community education around HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, organizing early HIV vaccine studies, description of the gay scene in DC, decision to become director of the DC Center, history of the DC Center, current activities at the DC Center.
30 January 2015
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Susan, originally from New Jersey and currently living in Takoma Park, is an active lawyer and mother of two children who has lived in the DC area since 1977. In the decade of 1980’s she was co-chair of the Gay and Lesbian Section of the D.C. Bar. Through her work she has treated Lesbian and Gay parenting issues and has experienced some shocking situations. Susan testimony is an overview of the lesbian and gay life in university, bar association and activist groups from the times of the First National March in the capital of the United States (1979).
Oral history with Mindy A. Daniels, 1954-
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Mindy Daniels came to the DC area in 1976 leaving her native New York behind. She served as President of GLAA during 1990-1992 and as Vice-president prior and after those years. She has always been an active member in the community. She initiated Walk without Fear in 1991 to highlight the difficult situation of violence against the LGBT community. She also organized a campaign of public service announcements on radio to make people become more aware and sensitive about the inequities that LGBT community suffered. In 1996 Mindy founded the National Lesbian Political Action Committee.
Oral history interview with Paul Albergo
In this interview, Paul Albergo discusses his involvement with a number of LGBTQ organizations, including Dignity Washington, the Gay Rights National Lobby (which preceded the Human Rights Campaign) , the National Lesbian and Gay Health Foundation, the National Association of People with AIDS, and Whitman-Walker Health's peer counseling program. Paul was president of the Washington DC chapter of DignityUSA, a national organization of LGBTQ Catholics, from 1986 through 1989. During that time, the group was ousted from its first home on the Georgetown campus because of its LTBTQ affiliation, and it moved to St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, where it still celebrates Mass today.
Oral history interview with Wallace Corbett
The journey of a HIV/AIDS survivor
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DC Superior Court Civil Division decision: Kirby v DC FEMS
Kenda Kirby District of Columbia Fire & Emergency Medical Services Agency, et. al. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights Employment discrimination
This is the court order reversing the Office of Human Rights decision concerning employment discrimination and retaliation against Kenda Kirby and remanding the case for further proceedings.
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3 April 2007
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Public hearing on repeal of DC sodomy act, 1993 [recording]
Sodomy laws, repeal Criminal Code of the District of Columbia
This is a recording of the public hearing on the 1993 "District of Columbia Criminal Code Right to Privacy Amendment Act of 1993" which repealed DC's sodomy laws. LISTEN ONLINE Tape 1 of 8 Tape 2 of 8 Tape 5 of 8 Tape 6 of 8 Tape 7 of 8 Tape 8 of 8 [Tape 3 and Tape 4 were not preserved]
29 January 1993; Friday, 10:00 a.m. Council Chambers, Room 500 The District Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004
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Third Decade After Stonewall: A Gay & Lesbian Agenda for D.C. in the 90s
A platform for action by activists and DC government officials for the 1990s.
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April 1990
This form was created after the passing of "The Health Benefits Expansion Act" of DC on 11 June 1992, which created a domestic partner registry. Congressional riders prohibited the use of federal or local funds to enact the law, blocking registration. Per the description of the form's primary author and donor Mindy A. Daniels, this form was made part of an Executive Order signed by then DC Mayor Sharon Pratt, just moments before the Congressional defunding. Mindy Daniels came up with this form of registration so so that domestic partners could register without using government monies, which was prohibited by Congress when they defunded the legislation. As DC government staff were prohibited to deal with the matter, a certified mail postal receipt that it was submitted to the government was all that was necessary for the domestic partnership to be deemed valid.
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Flier for the first annual "Walk Without Fear" march against hate violence (15 Nov 1991, Dupont Circle).
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"The Last Minority: Gay & Lesbian Lawyers Speak Out" cover story from The Washington Lawyer (Nov/Dec 1993)
Cover story from this issue is a profile of 6 out gay and lesbian lawyers in DC. Coverage is pages 20-31, with a letter from the editor on page 5. Per conversation with Mindy Daniels, participant and donor of this issue, there were very few out lawyers willing to speak to the author and be profiled in such a prominent publication.
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The Washington Lawyer: The Official Journal of the District of Columbia Bar
November / December 1993
Per conversation with Mindy Daniels, participant and donor of this issue, there were very few out lawyers willing to speak to the author and be profiled in such a prominent publication.
Oral history interview with Jonathan Blumenthal (1969- ) and Eric Cohen (1968- )
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Oral history interview with Nicolas Shi, 1958 -
Gay Chinese-Latino immigrant faces racial tension and a struggle with personal acceptance coming out in the gay community in the early 1980's.
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1986-present Nicolas Shi was born in El Salvador to full-Chinese parents, but moved to United States for college to escape building civil conflict. Shi moved to Washington in 1986 to start work. Not yet fully out of the closet, he secured brief relationships through The Washington Blade and frequented many gay bars and restaurants in Dupont Circle, where he often felt invisible. He sought out company from other Asians and eventually helped found and manage the social group 'Asians and Friends' even running their newsletter and marching with the group in early Pride parades. He experienced a lack of community among gay Latins but found a home in the Asian community despite tensions over Asian fetishes and emasculation. He and a partner bought a house between Dupont and Logan circle in 1986 and has lived there ever since, noting the changes in the neighborhood, which he borders with P St and 16th St NW. The rest of the family remains in the El Salvador with varying levels of acceptance of his sexual orientation and marriage to a long-term partner. He talks about 'de-gaying' the house when his relatives came to visit, until eventually coming out. Places mentioned include Lambda Rising bookstore, Friends, a showtunes piano bar, Mr. P's, P Street Station, The Fireside, JR's, Trumpets, Lost & Found and The Glory Hole. Includes brief commentary from Shi's husband.
Bruce Pennington in drag as Aurora Borealis
Bruce Pennington
Photographer: Blue Skies studio
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Gay Liberation Front-DC members on a trip to Harper's Ferry, WV
Gay Liberation Front (Washington, D.C.)
Photographer: Steve Behrens
1971
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Bruce Pennington of Gay Liberation Front-DC participating in the Christopher Street Liberation Day parade in New York City
Christopher Street Liberation Day parade
Outside of Bill's Flower Market, heading north up 6th Ave. at 28th Street
Gay Liberation Front-DC members and others at Christopher Street Liberation Day parade
Christopher Street Liberation Day
At least two members of Gay Liberation Front-DC march with others in Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, likely 1974
likely 1974
c. 1971
Gay activist Frank Kameny and Gay Liberation Front member Theodore Kirkland
Theodore Kirkland at Christopher Street Liberation Day
Christopher Street Liberation Day (New York City)
likely 1971
Former members of Gay Liberation Front-DC
Former Gay Liberation Front-DC members at City Center 55th Street Theater [now known as New York City Center, 131 W. 55th St.]
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Gay Liberation Front-DC member Steve Behrens
David Aiken
Seventh Anniversary Celebration of the Gay Community Center Resolution of 1985
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14 May 1985 Resolution: 6-140
Gay Community Center of the District of Columbia's 5th Anniversary Recognition Resolution of 1983
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26 April 1983 Resolution: 5-121
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