Topical Guide to DC LGBT History

Academia

• Gay Academic Union: Articles, programs, proceedings [html]

African Americans

• African American historic sites [pdf]
• Alexander-Reid (Sheila) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Alston (Wanda) : Memorial, 1959-2005 [html]
• Baker (Cornelius) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Bates (Christopher) : Community Pioneer [html]
• The Black Panthers and Gay Liberation [html]
• Black Pride 1991 booklet and list of Prides [html]
• Boozer (Melvin, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Budd (Earline) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Cheatam (Carlene) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Cheeks (Rainey, Rev. Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Chinn (Barbara) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Coleman (James 'Juicy') : Community Pioneer [html]
• Collins (Tony) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Duckett (Larry) : Memorial, 1953-2001 [html]
• Ferebee (Gideon, Jr.) : Memorial, 1950-2005 [html]
• Fox (Dominique) aka Kirk B. Johnson : Memorial, 1965-2001 [html]
• Hemphill (Essex) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hodge (Theo, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Johnson (Kirk B.) aka Dominique Foxx : Memorial, 1965-2001 [html]
• Jones-Hennin (ABilly S.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Jones-Hennin (ABilly S.) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Mann (Valeria Papaya) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Pannell (Philip) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Parkerson (Michelle) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Performance Life Photographs of Wayson Jones, Essex Hemphill, Larry Duckett, Chris Prince [pdf]
• Robinson (Donnell) aka Ella Fitzgerald : Community Pioneer [html]
• Simmons (Ron, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Sutson (Otis 'Buddy') : Community Pioneer [html]

AIDS (Disease)

• ACT-UP : AIDS Words [html]
• AIDS in DC [html]
      Those We Have Lost to AIDS:
  • chronological list [pdf]
  • alphabetical list [pdf]
• AIDS Timeline [pdf]
• Baker (Cornelius) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Bates (Christopher) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Cheeks (Rainey, Rev. Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Chinn (Barbara) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Coleman (James 'Juicy') : Community Pioneer [html]
• Digioia (Richard, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Duckett (Larry) : Memorial, 1953-2001 [html]
• Gomez (Letitia) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Graham (Jim, Hon.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hawkins (Patricia D., Ph.D.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hemphill (Essex) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hodge (Theo, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Jones-Hennin (ABilly S.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Mann (Valeria Papaya) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Simmons (Ron, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Spector (Cheryl) : Community Pioneer [html]

Authors

• Hemphill (Essex) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Whitman (Walt) in Washington, DC, 19th Century [html]
• Whitman (Walt) in DC: historic sites [pdf]

Bisexual Men and Women

• Hutchins (Loraine, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Survey of DC GLBT History : paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference [pdf]
• Timeline of DC Bisexual History [html]
• Timeline of DC GLBT History [pdf]

Bookstores

• Farmer (Mary) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Maccubin (Deacon) : Community Pioneer [html]

Catholic Church

• Catholic University zap [pdf]

Choruses

• Rosendall (Rick) : Community Pioneer [html]

Civil Rights

• New: Aiken (David) Papers and Photographs, 1971-1986
• Freund (Eva) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Freund (Eva) Papers [html]
• Gittings (Barbara) : Memorial, 1932-2007 [html]
• New: Gittings (Barbara) and Kay Tobin Lahusen Papers: Digital Collection, 1962-1972
• Howell (Craig) : Community Pioneer [html]
• 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]
• Nichols (Jack) : Memorial, 1938-2005 [html]
• Pennington (Bruce) : Memorial, 1946-2003 [html]
• Rosendall (Rick) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Scott (Bruce C.) : Memorial, 1912-2001 [html]
• Title 34 [html]
• Ulrich (Otto) : Memorial, 1935-2001 [html]
• Zais (James, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]

Clubs

• 55 K St SE photos of the last night at the former Waaay Off Broadway [pdf]
• The ClubHouse: DC's trendsetting African-American dance club
• Lost and Found Dance Club [html]
• New: Lost and Found Club Photograph Collection [html]
• New: The Pier Photograph Collection, 1970s [html]

Community

• Community Pioneers
• Just Us guide to the gay community, 1975 [html]
• Maccubin (Deacon) : Community Pioneer [html]

Drag

• Academy Awards (Academy of Washington)

  • New: Academy Awards of Washington Digital Collection [html]
  • Fanny Brice talks of going in drag [wma format]
  • Miss Gay America pageant
  • Academy Salute to America 1976
  • New: Academy of Washington Panel Discussion : transcript, 2011 May 11 [pdf]
• Brice (Fanny) aka Alex Carlino : Memorial, 1939-2007 [html]
• Carlino (Alex) aka Fanny Brice : Memorial, 1939-2007 [html]
• Drag in DC [html]
• Divine Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Drag in DC historic sites [pdf]
• Fox (Dominique) aka Kirk B. Johnson : Memorial, 1965-2001 [html]
• Johnson (Kirk B.) aka Dominique Foxx : Memorial, 1965-2001 [html]
• Rizzi (Carl) aka Mame Dennis : Community Pioneer [html]
• Robinson (Donnell) aka Ella Fitzgerald : Community Pioneer [html]

Fairfax County (Virginia)

• Fairfax County Human Rights Act [html]

Gay Men

• 1971
• Baker (Cornelius) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Basile (Vic) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Bates (Christopher) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Boozer (Melvin, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Brick (Barrett) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Catania (David) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Cheeks (Rainey, Rev. Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Chibbaro (Lou, Jr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Coleman (James) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Community Pioneers [html]
• Crutchfield (James "Hawk") : Community Pioneer [html]
• Digioia (Richard, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Duckett (Larry) : Memorial, 1953-2001 [html]
• Ferebee (Gideon, Jr.) : Memorial, 1950-2005 [html]
• Graham (Jim, Hon.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hemphill (Essex) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Howell (Craig) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Jones-Hennin (ABilly S.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Kuntzler (Paul) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Maccubin (Deacon) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Memorials [html]
• Mendoza-Gleason (Ric) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Michaels (Don) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Nichols (Jack) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Nichols (Jack) : Memorial, 1938-2005 [html]
• Pannell (Philip) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Pennington (Bruce) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Pennington (Bruce) : Memorial, 1946-2003 [html]
• Pennington (Bruce) Papers [html]
• Rizzi (Carl) aka Mame Dennis : Community Pioneer [html]
• Robinson (Donnell) aka Ella Fitzgerald : Community Pioneer [html]
• Rosendall (Rick) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Scott (Bruce C.) : Memorial, 1912-2001 [html]
• Shulman (Randy) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Simmons (Ron, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Stansbury (Larry) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Survey of DC GLBT History : paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference [pdf]
• Sutson (Otis 'Buddy') : Community Pioneer [html]
• Ulrich (Otto) : Memorial, 1935-2001 [html]
• Zais (James, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]

Health

• AIDS in DC [html]
      Those We Have Lost to AIDS:
  • chronological list [pdf]
  • alphabetical list [pdf]
• AIDS Timeline [pdf]
• Bates (Christopher) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Coleman (James) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Digioia (Richard, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hodge (Theo, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Mann (Valeria Papaya) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Simmons (Ron, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]

Hispanic Americans

• ENLACE
• New: ENLACE : Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Latino Lesbian and Gay Coalition Records : Digital Collection, 1991-1993
• Gomez (Letitia) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Mendoza-Gleason (Ric) : Community Pioneer [html]

Holocaust

• Gays and the Holocaust Memorial and Museum
  Lesbian Avengers

Homophile Organizations

• New: Freund (Eva) Papers : Digital Collection, 1961-1974
• New: Gittings (Barbara) and Kay Tobin Lahusen Papers: Digital Collection, 1962-1972
• Gittings (Barbara) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Gittings (Barbara) : Memorial, 1932-2007 [html]
• Kameny (Franklin) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Kuntzler (Paul) : Community Pioneer [html]
• 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.
  • Fighting the American Psychiatric Association
  • Freund (Eva) Papers [html]
    
    
• Nichols (Jack) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Nichols (Jack) : Memorial, 1938-2005 [html]
• Regional Homophile Organizations (Resources for Research) ECHO, ERCHO, NACHO

Kameny (Franklin)

• Kameny (Franklin) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Kameny (Franklin) Writ of Certiorari [html]
• Kameny (Franklin) Interviews on Friends Radio
• Kameny (Franklin) Photographs at the Library of Congress reception honoring the arrival of the Frank Kameny Papers [pdf]
• Kameny (Franklin) Photographs [pdf]

Leather Community

• Stansbury (Larry) : Community Pioneer [html]

Lesbians

• 1971
• Alexander-Reid (Sheila) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Biren (Joan) aka JEB : Community Pioneer [html]
• Bunch (Charlotte) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Cheatam (Carlene) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Community Pioneers [html]
• Daniels (Mindy) : Community Pioneers [html]
• DC NOW. Task Force on Sexuality brochure [pdf]
• Farmer (Mary) : Community Pioneer [html]
• The Furies [html]
• Freund (Eva) Papers [html]
• Freund (Eva) : Community Pioneer [html]
• New: Freund (Eva) Papers : Digital Collection, 1961-1974
• Gay Women's Open House, 1971 [pdf]
• Gittings (Barbara) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Gittings (Barbara) : Memorial, 1932-2007 [html]
• Gomez (Letitia) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hawkins (Patricia D., Ph.D.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Lesbians and Women's Liberation DC : sources [html]
• Linder (Jerrie) : Memorial, 1920-2005 [html]
• Lynch (Patsy) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Mann (Valeria Papaya) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Memorials [html]
• Musica: Newsletter of Women's Music, 1974 - 1977[html]
• Motive: the Lesbian/Feminist and Gay Men's Issues [html]
• Parkerson (Michelle) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Roadwork Images from Amy Horowitz [pdf]
• Sapphire Sapphos [html]
• Shultis (Candace, Rev. Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Spector (Cheryl) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Survey of DC GLBT History : paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference [pdf]
• Timeline of DC GLBT History [pdf]
• Tucker (Nancy) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Vincenz (Lilli, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• The Women's Tour historic sites [pdf]

Marches

• Gay May Day, 1971
• Lynch (Patsy) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Lynch (Patsy) Photographs of marches on Washington, AIDS protests [html]
• March on Washington background, 1979 [html]
• March on Washington booklet, October 1979 [html]
• Nichols (Jack) Photographs and Papers: Digital Collection, 1955-2005 [html]
• Spector (Cheryl) : Community Pioneer [html]
• University of Wisconsin students re-enacting the 1965 White House picket by Mattachine of Washington [pdf]
• Yates (Tom) Photos of the 1979 March on Washington [pdf]

Military

• Matlovich (Leonard) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]

Miscellany

• Errata in the text of Gay and Lesbian Washington, DC [pdf]

Neighborhoods

• Capitol Hill historic sites [pdf]
• Dupont Circle historic sites [pdf]
• East Dupont historic sites [pdf]
• South Capitol Street historic sites [pdf]

Newspapers

• Aiken (David) Articles: Notes on the 1970s [html]
• New: Aiken (David) Papers and Photographs, 1971-1986
• Chibbaro (Lou, Jr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Gay Blade : The First Blades - the early issues of The Gay Blade including the October 1970 first anniversary issue [pdf]
• King (Jennifer) The Cutting Edge : A History of The Washington Blade, Metropolitan Washington DC's GLBT Newspaper of Record [pdf]
• Michaels (Don) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Nichols (Jack) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Shulman (Randy) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Tucker (Nancy) : Community Pioneer [html]

Photography

• Biren (Joan) aka JEB : Community Pioneer [html]
• Lynch (Patsy) : Community Pioneer [html]

Physicians

• Digioia (Richard, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Hodge (Theo, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• McCalla Memoirs : paper by Mark Herlong
  Delivered at the 31st annual Washington DC Historical Studies Conference

Poetry

• Acosta (Ernie) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Brainard (Joe) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Brass (Perry) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Cox (Ed) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Cubeiro (Emilio) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Dlugos (Tim) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Duckett (Larry) Memorial Website [html]
• Everhard (Jim) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Ferebee (Gideon) : Community Pioneer, October 29, 1950 - September 24, 2005 [html]
• Ferebee (Gideon, Jr.) : Memorial, 1950-2005 [html]
• Friends Radio Program Poetry Readings [html]
• The Furies : Lesbian/feminist monthly. -- Vol. 1, issue 7 (Fall 1972) [html]
• Hemphill (Essex) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Lally (Lee) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Lorde (Audre) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Magnus : a journal of collective faggotry. -- Number 1 (Summer 1976) [html]
• Morgan (Ron) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Munn (Dick) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Parker (Pat) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]
• Parkerson (Michelle) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Young (Ian) Friends Radio poetry reading recordings [html]

Police

• Mendoza-Gleason (Ric) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Metropolitan Police Dept. [html]

Politics

• Basile (Vic) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Boozer (Melvin, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Brick (Barrett) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Catania (David) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Crutchfield (James "Hawk") : Community Pioneer [html]
• Daniels (Mindy) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Gay Activists Alliance – DC [html]
• Gay Activists Alliance documentary sources [html]
• The Gay Left
  • United States
  • District of Columbia
• Gay Liberation Front – DC [html]
• Gay Liberation Front flyers [html]
  
• Gertrude Stein Democratic Club [html]
• Gomez (Letitia) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Graham (Jim, Hon.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Kameny (Franklin) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Kameny (Franklin) for Congress [html]
• Kuntzler (Paul) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Nichols (Jack) Photographs of GLBT events, 1960s-1970s [pdf]
• Pannell (Philip) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Parkerson (Michelle) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Rosendall (Rick) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Tucker (Nancy) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Zais (James, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]

Pride Events

• Black Pride 1991 booklet and list of Prides
• Capital Pride [html]
• Christopher Street Liberation Day photographs, 1974 [pdf]
• GLF/DC at Christopher Street Liberation Day photographs, 1971 [pdf]
• Gay Pride - official and unofficial prides from 1972
• Pride day, May 1972 [html]
• Pride photos of Robert Dardano [pdf]
• The Story of a Photo: GLF-DC at Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1971 [html]

Psychiatry

• Hawkins (Patricia D., Ph.D.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Vincenz (Lilli, Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Zapping the APA

Publications

• Gay in the Counterculture [html]
• Summersgill (Robert) Media Collection: One, Mattachine Review, The Ladder
  

Publishers

• H. Lynn Womack: First Amendment Pioneer [html]

Radio

• Friends Radio Program Audiotape Collection
  • New: Friends Radio Program Digital Collection [html]
  • Interviews [html]
    
    • Delores Berry
    • Charlotte Bunch
    • Divine
    • Barbara Gittings
    • ABilly S. Jones-Hennin
    • Franklin Kameny
    • Leonard Matlovich
    • Troy Perry
    • and more
  • Poetry [html]
    • Ernie Acosta
    • Joe Brainard
    • Perry Brass
    • Ed Cox
    • Emilio Cubeiro
    • Tim Dlugos
    • Jim Everhard
    • Lee Lally
    • Audre Lorde
    • Ron Morgan
    • Dick Munn
    • Pat Parker
    • Ian Young
    • and more
• Pennington (Bruce) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Pennington (Bruce) : Memorial, 1946-2003 [html]
• Pennington (Bruce) Papers [html]

Religion

• Berry (Delores, Reverend) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Cheeks (Rainey, Rev. Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Perry (Troy) Interviews on Friends Radio [html]
• Shultis (Candace, Rev. Dr.) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Washington Area Council on Religion and the Homosexual [html]

Social Spaces

• 1724 20th St NW
• The ClubHouse
• The First Community Center photographs: 1972 [pdf]
• Gay Liberation Front House photographs, 1970 - 1974 [pdf]
• Lost and Found dance club and newsletters
• Places and Spaces database of clubs, organization sites, and social spaces in our history [pdf]

Teachers

• Acanfora Case: 1974, coverage by David Aiken
      February 74
      March 74
      October 74

Television

• On Screen : Creating Gay Fairfax and TV for the Gay Community by John Peter Olinger [pdf]

Transgender People

• Budd (Earline) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Collins (Tony) : Community Pioneer [html]
• Survey of DC GLBT History : paper from the 33rd annual DC Historical Studies Conference [pdf]
• Timeline of DC Trans History [pdf]
• Timeline of DC GLBT History [pdf]
  
  

Youth

• Just Us: Gay Youth