This report from 2011-2012 details survey findings regarding trans individuals' experiences with police and incarceration, employment and education, access to housing, health, and documentation status. The findings are presented quantitatively with…
A draft summary of a survey conducted between May 2012 and May 2013 to assess the needs and experiences of trans communities in DC. The summary includes information regarding gender, race and ethnicity, and sexuality of respondents, and addresses…
A document calling for justice for thirteen transgender women who were murdered between 2000 and 2011. The second page names each of the victims and illuminates that only three of the cases (depicted in black font) were brought to justice, whereas…
A 2010 letter from Captain Edward Delgado of the Metropolitan Police Department regarding DC Trans Coalition Director Jason Terry's request for statistical data on bias crimes against transgender individuals and transgender individuals' requests for…
A two-day discussion of the artistic/intellectual currents of 1979 in the African-American LGBTQ community, bisexuality, and the creation of the National Coalition of Black Gays.Day One (25 May 2001). Panelists discussed the issues and events of 1979…
Origins and activities of African American social clubs, especially Best of Washington, Metropolitan Capitolites, and Associates. LISTEN ONLINEDay 1, Part 1 of 5Day 1, Part 2 of 5Day 1, Part 3 of 5Day 2, Part 4 of 5Day 2, Part 5 of 5
Discussion of the origins, strategies, tactics, and legacies of four local direct-action groups: DC's Gay Liberation Front, the Lesbian Avengers, ACT-UP, and OUT. Lena Lett moderated. Bruce Pennington described the beginnings of DC's own Gay…
The Ladder was a periodical published between 1956 and 1972 by the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), a homophile organization based in San Francisco with chapters around the country. Co-edited by Phyllis Lyon (under the pseudonym Ann Ferguson) and Del…
Panelists represented the Spartans and the Centaur motorcycle clubs and discussed the origins, founders, club traditions, and events, including runs, leather cocktails, Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, and the creation of Brother, Help Thyself.LISTEN…
A 2009 letter from DC Department of Corrections Director Devon Brown and Acting Attorney General of DC Peter J. Nickles to the DC Trans Coalition Director Jason Terry regarding the implementation of the Policy on Gender Classification and Housing in…
Discussion focused on origins of the Gay Activists Alliance - DC in 1971, its early activities, and its connection with the Kameny for Congress campaign, with a particular emphasis on the campaign to rescind the American Psychiatric Association's…
Patterns of police harassment and entrapment of gays in DC and the Gay Activists Alliance's work to end harassment and build a new relationship with the Metropolitan Police Department.
20 pins from the 1980s and 1990s have been received and photographed; these were sent to RHP by a donor around the time of Mr. Wnuck's death. Mr. Wnuck's Obituary.
Panelists focus on discrimination against African-American members of the LGBTQ community in the 1970s and 1980s, and the formation of community groups and programs that fought back against such discrimination, including the DC Coalition of Black…