The Friends Radio tape collection at Rainbow History covers nine years (1973 to 1982) of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activism and community building in Washington, DC and around the nation. The Friends collection includes poetry, music, interviews, candidate interviews, social and political commentary and analysis and accounts of the creation of community services and organizations.
Rainbow History received a collection of more than 300 1/4inch acetate tape reels of varying diameters from Bruce Pennington, a founder of the Stonewall Nation Media Collective, which produced and broadcast the show at WGTB and WPFW. Rainbow History raises funds to pay for preserving, digitizing and sharing the recordings. Stay tuned, there is more to come.
The following recordings are copyright of Rainbow History.
recorded live on Friends Radio 1974
brief biography and artistic details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Brainard [html]
For biographical details and publications, see http://www.perrybrass.com .
For biographical details from Richard McCann, see http://washingtonart.com/beltway/cox.html
from Friends Radio poetry show 1974
poet, musician, filmmaker
interviewed by David Aiken circa 1974
See the brief biograph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Dlugos. Dlugos' papers are held in the special collections at New York University.
recorded live in Georgetown and on Friends Radio 1974
See Terence Winch's recollections of the DC Poetry scene at http://www.dcpoetry.com/history/winch
See http://douglangsdcpoetryblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/lee-lally.html for biographical background and also http://www.dcpoetry.com/history/lally for comments by her husband Michael Lally
recorded live at Mount Vernon College 1974
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde for a brief biography
recorded live at Harambee House during the Third World Conference October 1979
recorded live at Harambee House during the Third World Conference October 1979
recorded live on Friends Radio 1974
See biographical details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Parker
The National Womens Studies Association sponsors an annual Pat Parker Poetry Award.
Gay Canadian poet and editor of The Gay Muse an early 1970s anthology of queer poetry
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