(image created from footage by TJ Flavell) On Thursday, May 14, 2015, the Rainbow History Project honored the 2015 Community Pioneers through an open event at the Thurgood Marshall Center. We celebrated a dozen individuals, whose creative vision and persistent effort have built and strengthened the D.C. LGBT community. Didn’t make […]
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On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, we held our Annual Meeting at the DC Center. We discussed our recent activities (feel free to read our 2014 annual report!) . Several new volunteers signed up to assist with conducting oral histories, archiving documents, or public programs. The reception was a great time to chat with […]
We’ve scheduled our annual membership meeting and it is open to all who are interested! Tuesday, March 31, 2015 | 6:30 PM The DC Center 2000 14th Street, NW | Washington, DC This is an opportunity to connect with volunteers new and old, artifact donors, oral history narrators, community elders, and […]
District of Change: LGBTQ Life in D.C. Then and Now Wednesday, October 22, 2014 | 7:00 PM Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street, NW | Washington, DC RSVP to districtofchange-lgbtq.eventbrite.com or call 202.727.1183 For decades the LGBTQ community has been a vibrant and prominent part of life […]
On Sunday, October 5, 2014, the inaugural Northern Virginia Pride Festival was held at the Bull Run Special Events Center in Centreville, VA. Rainbow History Project board members staffed a booth and presented information about NOVA related materials in our collections, our efforts collecting histories for the entire metropolitan area, […]
The Rainbow History Project team participated in the 2014 Capital Pride Street Festival. We shared a booth with our archival partner, The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., which covered the enrollment costs. Dozens of people signed up to participate in our oral history program, and countless more took an LGBT […]
On Saturday, June 7, the we held our public panel discussion on the Gay Liberation Front DC. Former members of the GLF-DC, Brian Miller, Kent Jarratt, Michael Yarr, and Nancy Tucker shared their recollections with over 100 community members in attendance. The room was ‘standing-room-only’ and the panelists brought to life […]
An exhibit featuring items from the Rainbow History Project’s collections on the Gay Liberation Front-DC is now on view throughout the month of June at the Kiplinger Library of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. In conjunction with a June 6 2014 panel discussion, the exhibit shows key documents concerning the […]
In conjunction with the 2014 Capital Pride festivities, the Rainbow History Project will host a public panel discussion on the 1970s-era Gay Liberation Front (GLF). Invoking the chants used at political rallies and public demonstrations of the time, the panel is titled “‘Gay Power to Gay People’: The Gay Liberation […]