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Papers - Research, Guides, & Notes - Friends Audio Files
Historic Tours - Photos & Image Collections
19th Century - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s
Places in Our History
Papers
from the annual Washington DC Historical Studies Conference
Social Geography DC's LGBTQ social spaces
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
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Research, Guides & Notes
Errata in the text of Gay and Lesbian Washington, DC
AIDS in DC
Those We Have Lost to AIDS: chronological list; alphabetical list
AIDS Timeline
Aiken Articles: Notes on the 1970s
Black Pride
The Gay Blade/Blade/Washington Blade:The First Blades - the early issues of The Gay Blade including the October 1970 first anniversary issue
Newspaper of Record: 35 Years of The Washington Blade
The Cutting Edge -- A History of The Washington Blade, Metropolitan Washington DC's GLBT Newspaper of RecordCapital Pride
Community Pioneers
Drag in DC
Freund Papers
Friends Radio tapes
Memorials
Places and Spaces database of clubs, organization sites, and social spaces in our history
Survey of DC GLBT History
-paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference
Timeline of DC GLBT History
Timeline of DC Bisexual History
Timeline of DC Trans History
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Audio Files from Friends Tapes
Our Own Interviews Matlovich, Troy Perry, Charlotte Bunch, Delores Berry, Divine, and more
Our Own Poetry Acosta, Cox, Tim Dlugos, Michael Lally, and more
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Tours 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
Collections of Photos & Images
The First Community Center: 1972
Gay Liberation Front House 1970 - 1974
GLF/DC at Christopher Street Liberation Day 1971
Christopher Street Liberation Day 1974
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
University of Wisconsin students re-enacting the 1965 White House picket by Mattachine of Washington
Yates Photos of the 1979 March on Washington
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19th Century
Walt Whitman in Washington, DC
McCalla Memoirs, paper by Mark Herlong
Delivered at the 31st annual Washington DC Historical Studies Conference
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1960s
Franklin Kameny Writ of Certiorari
Mattachine Society of Washington
The petition for a writ of certiorari, the basis of MSW's ideology
MSW 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, Nov. 15, 1965.
Fighting the American Psychiatric AssociationAcademy Awards (Academy of Washington)
Fanny Brice talks of going in drag
Miss Gay America pageant
Academy Salute to America 1976Regional Homophile Organizations (Resources for Research) ECHO, ERCHO, NACHO
Gay in the Counterculture
Summersgill Media Collection: One, Mattachine Review, The Ladder
Washington Area Council on Religion and the Homosexual
H. Lynn Womack, First Amendment Pioneer
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1970s
1724 20th St NW, The Community Building
1971 Acanfora Case: 1974, coverage by David Aiken
Feb 74
March 74
October 74The ClubHouse DC's trendsetting African-American dance club
Fairfax County Human Rights Act
Friends Radio
......Our Own Poetry and Our Own InterviewsThe Furies
the Gay Academic Union: Articles, programs, proceedings
Gay Activists Alliance – DCGay Activists Alliance documentary sources
GLF flyers
Pride day, May 1972
Catholic University zap
Gay in the Counterculture
The Gay Left - US and in DC Gay Liberation Front – DCGay May Day 1971
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
Sources on Lesbians and Women's Liberation DC
Lesbians and Womens Liberation in the early 1970s
Lost and Found dance club and newsletters
Metropolitan Police Dept.1979 March on Washington Background
and the March on Washington booklet, October 1979Musica: Newsletter of Women's Music, 1974 - 1977
Motive: the Lesbian/Feminist and Gay Men's Issues
The Black Panthers and Gay Liberation
Something in the Air: a History of Friends Radio
Title 34
Task Force on Sexuality: DC NOW
Zapping the APA
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1980s
ENLACE
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club
Sapphire Sapphos
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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
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Places in Our History
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