The Rainbow History Project
Preserving Our Community's Memories

Friends Radio

The Tapes

The collection includes 96 tapes which cannot be played for identification until conservation measures are completed.  The following list indicates broadcast dates where they could be identified.

 
Date Subject/Topic
3/4/73 Interview with Divine and John Waters
7/20/73 Lesbian issues with drag
8/6/74 S&M, Aurora Borealis
8/11/74 Community Video
8/14/74 Lesbians & psychiatrists, Kim, Gay Men's VD Clinic
9/21/74 Gay Activist's Alliance-DC, Bob Carpenter interview
October 74 Lesbian separatism
10/15/74 Older Gays
10/19/74 Gays in the Movies
December 1974 Black and white relations
3/1/75 Rick St Clair and Big Brothers discrimination against gays
5/10/75 Homosexuality in prisons
5/17/75 Mothers and sons
5/27/75 Jack Nichols interview
6/7/75 Leonard Matlovich interview
7/5/75 Call-in show: with Matlovich and Keith
10/28/75 Lou Chibbaro, Washington Blade, discussing the Gay Media
11/4/75 Lesbian feminist panel
11/22/75 Gay Talk:  Goldhaber, St Clair
11/25/75 ADA, interview with Richard Maulsby and Paul Kuntzler
12/23/75 Christmas Program: A Fairy Amoung Elves
12/27/75 Year in Review
2/7/76 Gay Men's Counseling Collective
2/10/76 Straight women, lesbian women
2/14/76 Valentine's Day call-in show
2/28/76 Police harassment
3/7/76 Gay Men's VD Clinic
9/176 Center (Women's center?)
1110/76 Women's music
June 77 Casse Culver benefit for Friends radio
June 77 Hank Baron interview
June 77 Lesbian & Gay Pride- New York City
9/7/77 Gays in the Bible
10/5/77 Parents of Gays and Lesbians
1/10/78 Christopher Isherwood interview
4/12/78 The Gay South
12/7/78 Lesbian Mothers
1/2/79 Tammany or Marion Barry
Feb 79 Community forum
2/14/79 Valentine's Day Show
4/26/79 Billy Jones, Dolores Barry interview: National Coalition of Black Gays
June 79 Gay Pride 1979
6/4/79 NYC Gay Pride Day
6/15/79 Boston psychiatrist on drug abuse
7/20/79 Gay Talk
7/25/79 Tom Robinson (music)
8/3/79 Capt. Humphries (MPD) on police harassment
9/15/79 Older Gays
10/11/79 1979 March on Washington: music from concert at the Sylvan Theatre
10/12/79 Third World Concert: Harambee House: 
10/13/79 Third World Conference:  Audre Lorde, Blackberri
10/13/79 1979 March on Washington: 9 tapes of speeches, music, etc from the stage
12/31/79 New Year's Eve/Year in Review
4/2/80 Gay posters for Metro issue, Rev. Bob Jones
430/80 Washington for Jesus
6/22/80 Gay Pride Day - DC 2 tapes
June 81 Gay Pride Day - DC 3 tapes
Feb 21 Divine, interview
July 19 Divine and John Waters interview
July 27 Ethnic Forum, Stonewall Nation Media collective, Washington Area Gay Community Council
Aug 2 Stanley Woodruff
Aug 10 Bar harassment
Aug 17 GAA Candidates forum
Sept 8 Holly Woodlawn interview
September 9 'Fanny Brice' of the Washington Academy interview, the world of drag
October 8 Gay Switchboard
October 13 Poetry: Tim Dlugos, Terry Winch
October 14 Masilow interview
November 8 Rick St Clair interview
Dec 14 School counselors
n.d. Alex van Oss on lavender culture
n.d. Black history, police
n.d. Black & white couples
n.d. Blackberri & Ron Morgan
n.d. Bob Schwartz, the Gay Men's VD Clinic
n.d. Craig Russell interview
n.d. Dorothy Allison, Dick Munn, Ernie Acosta in conversation
n.d. Echo Innis: lesbians
n.d. Gay AA:  Cade Ware interview
n.d. Gay Press
n.d. Gay Rights
n.d. Gay Switchboard
n.d. Gays & Drugs
n.d. Benefits & Problems of Gay kids
n.d. Holly Near (2 tapes)
n.d. Homo Madness, Red Shoes Walking group
n.d. New York City, Mike England
n.d. Troy Perry interview

n.d = no identifiable date