(Rainbow History board member Vincent Slatt. Photo by Sarah Welz Geselowitz.) On Tuesday, June 30th, the last day of Pride Month, the Rainbow History Project held a public information session at the Southeast Neighborhood Library. Board member Vincent Slatt discussed the history of the organization and our ongoing work, including […]
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(Board member Jim Marks poses at Rainbow History’s booth at the Capital Pride Street Festival. In front of him are historical LGBTQ-related artifacts for visitors to browse – including several old newspaper articles by Jim himself! Photo by Sarah Welz Geselowitz.) On Sunday, June 14th, we welcomed the public to our […]
On the morning of Saturday, June 13 – hours before the Capital Pride Parade – Rainbow History board member Jeff Donahoe teamed up with local historian Brock Thompson to offer free walking tours of historic gay DC. Dozens of locals and visitors participated. Photos by Sarah Welz Geselowitz. Click to enlarge: (Jeff Donahoe […]
(Thanks to the DC Public Library for this flier. Click to enlarge.) Rainbow History Project: Collecting and Preserving D.C.’s LGBT History Tuesday, June 30 | 7pm Meeting Room of the Southeast Neighborhood Library | 403 7th Street SE Washington DC, 20003 The Rainbow History Project is the archive for preserving the city’s LGBT history […]
(Participants in a 1972 Gay Pride event. Find this image and other gay pride artifacts under our “gay pride” tag.) Rainbow History Booth at the Capital Pride Festival (external link) Sunday, June 14, 2015 | 12pm-7pm Booth space O-209 and O-210 | Map (external link) (Please note that our booth is […]
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 […]