Chronological Guide to DC LGBT History

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DC's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community. We list below topics and materials available online.

19th Century | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s

19th Century

McCalla Memoirs : paper by Mark Herlong
Delivered at the 31st annual Washington DC Historical Studies Conference

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1960s

Academy of Washington
- Academy Awards
- Academy Salute to America 1976
- Brice (Fanny) talks of going in drag [wma format]
- Miss Gay America pageant
American Psychiatric Association
Community Pioneers
New: Freund (Eva) Papers : Digital Collection, 1961-1974
Gay in the Counterculture
New: Gittings (Barbara) and Kay Tobin Lahusen Papers: Digital Collection, 1962-1972
Kameny (Franklin) Writ of Certiorari, 1960
Mattachine Society of Washington
- The petition for a writ of certiorari, the basis of MSW's ideology
- MSW Constitution
- The Insider
- Franklin 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.
- New: Mattachine Society of Washington 50th Anniversary panel discussion : transcript, 2011 October 11 [pdf]
New: Nichols (Jack) Photographs and Papers: Digital Collection, 1955-2005 [html]
Regional Homophile Organizations (Resources for Research) ECHO, ERCHO, NACHO
Summersgill (Robert) Media Collection: One, Mattachine Review, The Ladder
Washington Area Council on Religion and the Homosexual
Womack (H. Lynn), First Amendment Pioneer

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1970s

1724 20th St NW, The Community Building
1971
Acanfora Case: 1974, coverage by David Aiken
- February 1974
- March 1974
- October 1974
New: Aiken (David) Papers and Photographs, 1971-1986
The ClubHouse: DC's trendsetting African-American dance club
Community Pioneers
Fairfax County Human Rights Act
New: Freund (Eva) Papers : Digital Collection, 1961-1974
Friends Radio
- New: Friends Radio Program Digital Collection [html]
- Interviews
- Poetry
The Furies
Gay Academic Union: Articles, programs, proceedings
Gay Activists Alliance – DC
Gay 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 – DC
Gay May Day, 1971
Gay Pride - official and unofficial prides from 1972
Gay Women's Open House, 1971
New: Gittings (Barbara) and Kay Tobin Lahusen Papers: Digital Collection
Just Us guide to the gay community, 1975
Kameny for Congress
Lesbians and Women's Liberation DC : sources
Lesbians and Womens Liberation in the early 1970s
Lost and Found dance club and newsletters
New: Lost and Found Club Photograph Collection [html]
Metropolitan Police Dept.
March on Washington Background, 1979
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
New: Nichols (Jack) Photographs and Papers: Digital Collection, 1955-2005 [html]
New: The Pier Photograph Collection, 1970s [html]
The Black Panthers and Gay Liberation
Title 34
Task Force on Sexuality: DC NOW
Zapping the APA

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1980s

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1990s

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