Rainbow History maintains an online archive of materials concerning the history of metropolitan Washington, DC's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered
community.  We list below topics and materials available online.  A mouse click on the highlighted word will take you the items listed.
 

Papers

from the 33rd annual Washington DC Historical Studies Conference

Something in the Air: Friends Radio
The Cutting Edge -- A History of The Washington Blade, Metropolitan Washington DC's GLBT Newspaper of Record
On Screen --  Creating Gay Fairfax and TV for the Gay Community

Research, Guides, & Notes:

Errata in the text of Gay and Lesbian Washington, DC

Finding Aid for the Aiken Papers
Finding Aid for the Pennington Papers

AIDS in DC
    Those We Have Lost to AIDS: chronological list; alphabetical list
    AIDS Timeline
Black Pride
The First Blades - the first six issues of The Gay Blade and the October 1970 first anniversary issue
Capital Pride
Community Pioneers
Drag in DC
Freund Papers
Friends Radio tapes
Memorials
Newspaper of Record: 35 Years of the Washington Blade
On Screen --  Creating Gay Fairfax and TV for the Gay Community - paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference
Places and Spaces database of clubs, organization sites, and social spaces in our history
Social Geography paper from the 29th annual DC Historical Studies Conference
Something in the Air: Friends Radio - paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference
Survey of DC GLBT History
The Cutting Edge -- A History of The Washington Blade, Metropolitan Washington DC's GLBT Newspaper of Record
        -paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference
Timeline of DC GLBT History
Timeline of DC Bisexual History
Washington Blade history

Tours (walking and otherwise) of Historic DC GLBT Sites

African American sites
Capitol Hill sites
Drag in DC sites
Dupont Circle sites
East Dupont sites
South Capitol Street sites
Whitman in DC sites
Women’s sites

Collections of Photos & Images

55 K St SE photos of the last night at the former Waaay Off Broadway
Kameny Photos
Kameny Papers photos at the Library of Congress
Lynch Photos of marches on Washington, AIDS protests
Nichols Photos of GLBT events in the 60s and 70s
Performance Life Photos of Wayson Jones, Essex Hemphill, Larry Duckett, Chris Prince
Pride photos of Robert Dardano
Roadwork Images from Amy Horowitz
The Story of a Photo: GLF-DC at Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1971
Yates Photos of the 1979 March on Washington

19th Century

Walt Whitman in Washington, DC
McCalla Memoirs, a paper by Mark Herlong, delivered at the 31st annual Washington DC Historical Studies Conference

1960s

Mattachine Society of Washington

Constitution
The Insider
Kameny
The Gazette, Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 1964 including an account of Rep. Dowdy's attempt to strip MSW of its DC charitable organization registration
Mattachine's own description of itself (circa 1966)
1962 news release announcing the Mattachine Society of Washington
1963 Letter to 1,000 local clergymen
Press release announcing formation of the Washington Area Council on Religion and the Homosexual, May 24, 1965
Mattachine flyer
Letter from John Macy, US Civil Service Commission, September 28, 1962
Letter from John Macy, US Civil Service Commission, February 25, 1965
Presentation to the US Civil Service Commission on Discrimination Against the Employment of Homosexuals, November 15, 1965.
Fighting the American Psychiatric Association

Academy Awards

Fanny Brice talks of going in drag
Miss Gay America pageant
Academy Salute to America 1976

Resources for Research on Regional  Homophile Organizations: ECHO, ERCHO, NACHO
Gay in the Counterculture
Summersgill Media Collection: One, Mattachine Review, The Ladder
Washington Area Council on Religion and the Homosexual

1970s

1724 20th St NW, The Community Building
1971
Acanfora Case: 1974, coverage by David Aiken
    Feb 74
    March 74
    October 74
The ClubHouse
Fairfax County Human Rights Act
Friends Radio
Furies
Gay Activists Alliance – DC
Gay Liberation Front – DC
   GLF flyers
   Pride day, May 1972
   Catholic University zap
Gay in the Counterculture
GayMayDay
Gay Pride - official and unofficial prides from 1972
Gay Women's Open House - 1971
Just Us guide to the gay community, 1975
Kameny for Congress
Lost and Found dance club and newsletters
Metropolitan Police Dept.
Background and the March on Washington booklet, October 1979
Musica: Newsletter of Women's Music, 1974 - 1977
Motive: the Lesbian/Feminist and Gay Men's Issues
Something in the Air: a History of Friends Radio
Title 34
Task Force on Sexuality: DC NOW
Zapping the APA

1980s

ENLACE
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club
Sapphire Sapphos

1990s

Gays and the Holocaust Memorial and Museum
Lesbian Avengers
Black Pride 1991 booklet and list of Prides
The Drag Rag, covering late 20th century drag events in Washington, DC

Places in Our History:

1724 20th St NW

The ClubHouse