The collection is open for research use.
Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow.
Do not use original materials when available on reference video or audio tapes.
The Archives Center continues to add to this collection.
Addendums and gifts were received from: Dr. James P. Davidson; ONE Archive, Los Angeles, California (2019, 2023); the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries; Service Members Legal Defense Network, and Department of Defense Comprehensive Review Working Group; Joan E. Biren (2010); Joseph Dietrich, Bradley Reichard, Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. (2011, 2014, 2020, 2021); Archives of Philadelphia, William Way LGBT Community Center (2012); Joyce Cheney (2012); Patsy Lynch, Rainbow History Community Pioneers (2012-2014); Leah Kelley (2012); Gregory Exline (2013); the Sean O. Strub addendum was collected from Sean O. Strub, publisher and executive editor of
This collection was assembled by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, beginning in 2004.
The collection is divided into twenty-eight series.
Subseries 3.1: Photographs and Slides, 1870-2009, undated
Subseries 3.2: Ephemera and Buttons, 1969-2022, undated
Subseries 3.3: Posters and Prints, 1825-2018, undated
Subseries 3.4: Subject Files, 1958-2023, undated
Subseries 3.5: Pride, 1976-2023, undated
Subseries 3.6: HIV and AIDS, 1987-2020, undated
Subseries 3.7: Gay Games, 1982-2018
Subseries 4.1: Advertising, 1970-2018, undated
Subseries 4.2: Business, 1986-2021, undated
Subseries 4.3: Television, Theater, and Motion Pictures, 1978-2023, undated
Subseries 4.4: Bar ephemera and advertisement, 1979-2018, undated
Subseries 4.5: Publications, 1912-2023, undated
Subseries 5.1: Xerographic Copies of Photoprints, 1971-1995, undated.
Subseries 5.2: Posters and Oversize Advertisement, 1973-2018, undated
Subseries 7.1: Correspondence, 1952-1991, undated
Subseries 7.2: Board of Directors Minutes, 1954-1974, undated
Subseries 7.3: Organizational Information, 1942-1993, undated
Subseries 7.4: Councils, Chapters, and Committees, 1953-1965, undated
Subseries 7.5: Conventions, 1953-1960, undated
Subseries 7.6: Publications, 1944-1996, undated
Subseries 15.1: Photographs, Photographic Negatives, and Slides, 1985-2010, undated
Subseries 15.2: Heritage of Pride (HOP), 1984-2014, undated
Subseries 15.3: Barna, Joseph T., 1910-2013, undated,
Subseries 21.1: Archilla, Gustavo A. and Lokkins, Elmer T., 1916-2014, undated
Subseries 1:
While the quest for equal rights has been pursued by generations, it is generally acknowledged that the modern day Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) civil rights movement began in New York City in June 1969 with the Stonewall Riots. Prior to this time a number of activists, individuals, and organizations such as The Mattachine Society, Daughters of Bilitis and others, fought to bring recognition of LGBT civil rights to the forefront of American society. While the movement was primarily, and most visably, centered in New York City and San Francisco, periodicals, guide books, and ephemeral material interconnected the larger LGBT community throughout the United States. The increased visibility of the LGBT movement inspired affinity groups at odds with the LGBT community's new found visibility and quest for broader civil rights. The challenge to what was termed "traditional" values encouraged these counter-LGBT groups to define and solidfy their constituency and also become more pro-active. This collection comprises material that is generated by individuals and organizations promoting both points of view.
The Sean O. Strub addendum was collected by Katherine Ott, curator, Division of Medicine and Science and transferred to the Archives Center in 2013.
Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Processed by Susan B. Strange, archivist, 2004-2008. Processed by Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., archivist, 2009-2023; assisted by Jennifer Berger, Kendra Ciccone, Erin Molloy (Biren, Lynch, and Mattachine Addendums), Erin Walsh, Katarina Walther, Theresa Worden, Lily Stowe-Ackerman, Ryan Komitor, Amelia Dolbeare, Sara Kunkemueller, Geoff Kelly interns; supervised by Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. and Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist.
Michio and Aveline Kushi Macro-Biotics Collection (AC0619)
The Shamrock Bar: Photographs and Interviews (AC0857)
John-Manuel Andriote
Archives Center Wedding Documentation Collection (AC1131 )
Division of Science, Medicine, and Society HIV/AIDS Reference Collection (AC1134)
John-Manuel Andriote
Joan E. Biren (JEB) Queer Film Museum Collection (AC1216)
World AIDS Institute (WAI) Collection (AC1266)
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) Records (AC1282)
Helping Persons with AIDS (HPA) Records (AC1283)
DC Cowboys Dance Company Records (AC1312)
Bil Browning and Jerame Davis Papers (AC1334)
David Hadley Rockwell New York Disco Ephemera Collection (AC1342)
Leonard P. Hirsch Federal Globe Records (AC1357)
Corbett Reynolds Papers (AC1390)
Mark Segal Papers (AC1422)
The Mattachine Society of Washington "Love in Action" Collection (AC1428)
Academy of Washington Records (AC1458)
Matthew Shepard Papers (AC1463)
The Division of Political History holds artifacts related to gay activist Franklin Kameny and a variety of political buttons. They also hold LGBT related artifacts from Joan E. Biren (JEB).
The Division of Medical and Science holds objects donated from Dr. Renee Richards, Sean O. Strub, and Leonard Hirsch.
The Division of Entertainment and the Arts holds objects donated by
The Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection contains periodicals, ephemera, posters, postcards, advertisements, photographs, organizational records, publications, correspondence, and other materials related to all aspects of the LGBT community and the civil rights issues pertaining thereto. The collection was created by the Archives Center to bring together materials specifically pertaining to the LGBT community. This collection contains material from communities and individuals throughout the United States. The collection is currently strongest in periodicals, newspapers and ephemera and very strong in material from California and New York. The collection continues to add new items and the researcher would be wise to take a broad view in targeting their research topics in the collection.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
This series is arranged alphabetically by publication title. This series contains a variety of periodicals, newsletters, and newspapers produced by and for the LGBT community. There are publications that are both national in scope and locally oriented. There are early issues of
There are a full run of
This series includes copies of the
This series includes Orlando, Florida area publications collected after the Pulse nightclub massacre 2016 June 12.
BAR / Bay Area Reporter :"Gay Pride Week" issue, June 12, 1974 [newspaper].
AC1146-0000005.tif (AC Scan No.: front page)
Includes reproduction of photograph from "gay pride" parade at Stanford University.
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
BAR / Bay Area Reporter :"Gay Pride Week" issue, June 12, 1974 [newspaper].
AC1146-0000006.tif (AC Scan No.: front page)
Gay Power, Volume 1, #1", 1969 [newspaper].
AC1146-0000028.tif (AC Scan No.: cover)
Box No. OS4.
Cover in color.
Newswest: "Slasher Murders: Anti-Gay Vendetta?" [headline] [newspaper] 1975.
AC1146-0000029.tif (AC Scan No.: front page)
Box No. OS6.
Newspaper, Entertainment West (EW), Newsworld, "What is Gay Pride?", "Should the Parade Be a Parade?", "New Anti-Gay Police Memo Uncovered", 1975, black, white and gray.
AC1146-0000030.tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No. OS6
NEXT / New York's Gay Guide / Let's Play Ball, Sept. 12, 2008 [magazine].
AC1146-0000009 (AC Scan No.: front cover)
Periodical has cover picture of a sweaty basketball player, from a photograph.
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
One. July, 1954 [magazine].
AC1146-0000012.tif (AC Scan No.: cover)
Cover has illustration of Walt Whitman and title of article inside, "The Mystery of Walt Whitman."
ONE: Are Homosexuals Security Risks? December. [Magazine] 1955.
AC1146-0000014.tif (AC Scan No.: front cover)
Red and buff cover.
ONE Magazine, 1956.
AC1146-0000001.tif (AC Scan No., cover)
On the cover are featured Thomas Hennings Jr. and Robert Hutchins, with "Homosexual Rights" heading.
In January 1953, a small group of tenacious men published the first issue of _ONE Magazine_, the first openly distributed publication focused on issues facing homosexuals in America. In the following years, the magazine's distribution grew well into the thousands and quickly spawned ONE, Incorporated to produce the magazine and pursue additional research and educational efforts. In his new book, _Pre-Gay L.A.: A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights_, C. Todd White traces the histories of this magazine, ONE, Inc., their founders, and several related organizations in a thoroughly detailed narrative. White posits that although many activists and historians may see New York, with the events at Stonewall, and San Francisco, with its large and iconic gay community, as the epicenters of the gay rights movement from 1969 on, Los Angeles was actually the original home to the modern movement. (Christine M. Lamberson, review of C. Todd White. Pre-Gay L.A.: A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights. Urbana University of Illinois Press, 2009. xvii + 258 pp. Published on H-California (March, 2010)
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint. May, 1958.
AC1146-0000013.tif(AC Scan No.)
Cover, printed in black and red, includes title of article, "Is Your Child A Homosexual?"
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint / I Am Glad I Am Homosexual [periodical], August, 1958.
AC1146-0000015.tif (AC Scan No.: front cover)
Front cover shows title and illustration of a standing man.
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint / Homosexual Servicemen [magazine], August, 1960.
AC1146-0000016.tif (AC Scan No.: front cover)
Cover includes reproduction of photograph of men on a ship.
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, "Homosexual, Servant of God", December, 1960 [periodical]
AC1146-0000017.tif (AC Scan No.)
Cover has image of three Magi.
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, "John, Mowing", April, 1961 [periodical].
AC1146-0000018.tif (AC Scan No.)
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, "10th Year", January, 1962 [periodical].
AC1146-0000019.tif (AC Scan No.)
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, "Let's Push Homophile Marriage", June 1963 [periodical].
AC1146-0000020.tif (AC Scan No.)
ONE, April, 1964 [periodical].
AC1146-0000021.tif (AC Scan No.)
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, "Life, Liberty, Happiness", July 1964 [periodical].
AC1146-0000022.tif (AC Scan No.)
Red, white, and blue design.
Out. October 11, 1979 [magazine].
AC1146-0000011.tif (AC Scan No.: cover)
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
RFD. [Copyright Summer 1978, with black & white cover, and "RFD" in bright pink : magazine.]
AC1146-0000004.tif (AC Scan No.: front cover)
Cover image of two women embracing.
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
RFD. [Magazine, Summer 1987]
AC1146-0000037.tif (AC Scan No.)
Summer, 1987 issue.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
This series is arranged alphabetically by organization and company name. This series contains postcards, mailings, and ephemeral information usually given out at PRIDE festivals, street fairs, and large gatherings or through mailings. It includes publications developed by specific organizations and corporations pertaining to their areas of interest of marketing to the LGBT population or their LGBT policies.
There are materials from a variety of organizations that are private, non-profit, for-profit, and governmental. This series contains material relating to ballot initiatives in California and Maine on same sex marriage. This series also contains materials from performance and social organizations. Some folders may only contain a few items. Many materials promotional and informational are undated so as to be able to be used for multiple years.
Atheists.org
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
DC Cowboys Dance Company
Family Research Council (FRC)
Federal Globe: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Employees of the Federal Government
Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)
Gay Men's Chorus of Washington (GMCW)
Postcard, "Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC presents 'The Wizard of OZ', featuring an all-male cast", 2002, color.
AC1146-0000024.tif (AC Scan No.)
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC)
Immigration Equality Action Fund
Lambda Legal
Mary's Center (Washington, DC)
National Organization for Marriage
National Park Service (NPS)
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN),
This man was brutally murdered for being gay. [Color postcard.]
AC1146-0000023.tif (AC Scan No.)
Image shows a uniformed sailor, Allen Schindlerm, with a U.S. flag image behind him.
South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA), correspondence, press releases
Take a stand against / Homophobia, Sexism, and Class Bias [black-and-white flier, 1997].
AC1146-0000071.tif (AC Scan No.)
This flier announces a "press conference/community education panel" to address the Federation of Indian Associations' refusal to allow SALGA to participate in the 1997 India Day parade. Sheet contains two copies of the flier.
Queens Pride Day Prade [sic] [color flier, ca. 2000].
AC1146-0000072.tif (AC Scan No.)
Text on pini paper, announcing June 4 SALGA gay pride parade in Queens, New York.
Stardust '98 benefit dance, The Cooler [flier] 1998.
AC1146-0000073.tif (AC Scan No.)
Text on yellow paper. Advertises SALGA benefit at the Cooler, with "star studded drag performances."
South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA), October 1994. [Newsletter.]
AC1146-0000074.tif (AC Scan No.: front page)
Article, "They Have a Right to Love" by Priyamvada Sinha, protests 14th annual India Day parade and its exclusion of SALGA.
SALGA, flyers, advertisements
SALGA Marches in the / NYC Pride 95 Parade]. [flier].
AC1146-0000068.tif (AC Scan No.)
Black text on yellow paper. Advises participants what to wear, including saris, salwar kameez, and dupattas.
Color Me / Queer / on the Pier [color postcard, 2001].
AC1146-0000069.tif (AC Scan No.)
Postcard with reproductions of color portraits. "Our Sixth Annual Queer People of Color Dance."
Heera Mandi / A Night of Music and Masti / ...at The Cooler [color flier], 2001.
AC1146-0000070.tif (AC Scan No.)
Illustrations of three figures in female Indian costume. Printed in red. Advertises benefit at 416 W. 14th St., New York City.
straightmoralline.com
This series is arranged alphabetically by title. It includes programs from street fairs, the Gay Games, PRIDE programs and guides (arranged by state), Pride ephemera, and other LGBT related functions. There are general category folders for Health, Historical, Legal, Political, Religion (Dignity, Affirmation, Metropolitan Community Church and others), Sports, and Travel. This series includes posters from the Defense of Marriage Act hearing demonstration at the Supreme Court in March 2013 and the Supreme Court hearing on Marriage Equality in 2015.
Larson, Gordon P. and unidentified others, Hollywood, California; Montreal, Canada; Paris, France; Greece; Tijuana, Mexico; New York, New York; Fort Worth, Texas
Lynch, Patsy, photographs: March on Washington; Equality March; Protest to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy; Lambda Rising Bookstore; Coleman, Juicy; marriage of Coleman, Joseph H., Jr. and Epinger, Chris F.; marriage of Taylor, Frank and Meinke, Mark; marriage equality protest at the U.S. Supreme Court; Obama, Barak with LA Gallaxy soccer team, Central Alabama Pride
Mooney, William Scott, Scranton, Pennsylvania, mug shot booking card
Mosebacher, Dee and Reid, Frances, filmmakers
Unidentified Chicago, Illinois residents
Coronation Ball, San Francisco
Harvey Milk Street (San Diego, California)
"I Support Traditional Marriage & Chick-fil-A", bumper sticker
Kameny, Frank, notebook 2, Georgia to Missouri
Kameny, Frank, notebook 4, Ohio to Tennessee
"No on Prop 8" (California) advertising cards and bumper stickers
Political buttons and assorted ephemera
Bushnell, Meagan, Laura, Wylie, and Mavis, Pennsylvania, "I Love My Two Moms", poster, and one other, Marriage Equality rally at the Supreme Court
Bushnell, Meagan, Laura, Wylie, and Mavis, Pennsylvania, two posters from Marriage Equality rally at the Supreme Court
Sheets, Justin, Richmond, Virginia, poster from Marriage Equality rally at the Supreme Court
"
Drag
Entertainment
Sean Penn, "Milk" [color postcard], 2008.
AC1146-0000025.tif (AC Scan No.)
Historical
Louganis, Greg, assorted photographs
Religion
Pride began in at least four major cities in the United States (New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and San Diego) in June 1970, one year after the Stonewall Uprising in New York City, New York. In the intervening years the celebration of Pride has spread to many United States and foreign countries and is not only celebrated in June, but throughout the year. Many Pride celebrations were cancelled during the worldwide COVID pandemic, 2020-2021, and as of 2022 many Pride festivals have moved away from printed programs and advertising ephemera to digital formats.
"seize the spirit stonewall 25", commemorative button
Pride ephemera, various locations
Pride, hand fans
Christopher Street West Gay Pride Celebration, program
"Gay Freedom Day Parade and Celebration", program, San Francisco, California
Pride programs and ephemera from Pride celebrations in New York State. Pridefest 2020 in New York City was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic. As of 2022, New York City Pridefest appears to have abandoned printed programs in favor of a digital presence.
Stonewall 25 (New York, New York) pamphlet
Pride Guide, Stonewall 50 World Pride NYC (New York, New York)
Pride programs and ephemera from Pride celebrations in Washington, DC. DC Pride in 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic. As of 2022, DC Pride appears to have abandoned printed programs in favor of a digital presence.
Black Pride (Washington, DC)
1 World Manga [fighting AIDS], 2006 [color comic book].
AC1146-0000044.tif (AC Scan No.: cover)
Story by Annette Roman, ink by Walden Wong. Cover depicts a boy and girl riding a fierce-looking horse with a large long tail.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
AIDS Awareness: The Fight Against AIDS, trading cards
[AIDS Awareness card for Larry Kramer, 1993]. [color].
AC1146-0000045.tif(AC Scan No.)
1993.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness card for Rock Hudson, 1993, color ].
AC1146-0000046.tif (AC Scan No.)
1993. In color.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card of Earvin "Magic" Johnson]. [color trading card], 1993.
AC1146-0000050.tif (AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card of Arthur Ashe]. [color card].
AC1146-0000051.tif(AC Scan No.)
1993.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card, reverse side of the Elizabeth Taylor card]. [color].
AC1146-0000052.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card of Madonna : trading card with color reproduction.]
AC1146-0000053.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card of Children and AIDS]. [color].
AC1146-0000054.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card of Jerry Smith]. [color card].
AC1146-0000055.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card of the AIDS Memorial Quilt]. [color].
AC1146-0000056.tif(AC Scan No.)
1993.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card about Heterosexual Men and AIDS]. [color].
AC1146-0000057.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card of Diana, Princess of Wales]. [color].
AC1146-0000058.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card about Gay and Bisexual Men and AIDS]. [color].
AC1146-0000059.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card about ACT UP/PWAC]. [color].
AC1146-0000060.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Ryan White [trading card].
AC1146-0000061.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Ryan White [trading card].
AC1146-0000061.tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No. 11.
Color portrait of Ryan White on trading card, from a series of AIDS Awareness cards.
One of those personalities depicted is Ryan White, a young man with hemophilia. Born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1971, White caught HIV through contaminated blood products. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985. He became a vocal and visible symbol of AIDS. Through his illness he became friends with Elton John and Michael Jackson, among others. He died of AIDS in 1990. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990 was named for him. On verso: "He was taunted and ostracized at school and was finally expelled. Neighbors pelted the Whites' car, and a bullet was fired into their home. Fleeing Kokomo, the family moved to nearby Cicero, where they were welcomed, and Ryan attended school for the rest of his short life."
[AIDS Awareness Card, "Jane Doe"]. [color].
AC1146-0000062.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card, Women and AIDS]. [color].
AC1146-0000063.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[AIDS Awareness Card, AIDS in Latin America]. [color].
AC1146-0000064.tif(AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Born digital files stored in the Smithsonian Institutions' Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).
Teen Life series, Frequently Asked Questions About AIDS and HIV. [color].
AC1146-0000066.tif(AC Scan No.)
Book cover, Teen Life series, Frequently Asked Questions About AIDS and HIV, author Richard Robinson, 2009.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Time Out The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You. [color].
AC1146-0000065.tif(AC Scan No.)
VHS video, Time Out The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You, Arsenio Hall, Magic Johnson, 42 minutes, 1992.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
HIV and AIDS
National HIV Testing Day, 2009. [Picture postcard.]
AC1146-0000040.tif(AC Scan No.)
Event occurred June 27, 2009 at The Bachelor's Mill, Washington, D.C. Image shows face of African American man.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Gay Olympic Games I (San Francisco, California), limited edition poster, autographed by Rob Anderson
Gay Games II (San Francisco, California)
Gay Games [program,] August, 1986.
AC1146-0000008.tif (AC Scan No.: front cover)
Color cover.
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
This series is arranged into four subseries: Subseries 4.1 Advertising, Subseries 4.2 Business, Subseries 4.3 Television, Theater, and Motion Pictures, Subseries 4.4 Ephemera and Advertisement, and Subseries 4.5 Publications. Within the subseries items are arranged alphabetically by company name or title. This series includes
This subseries contains advertisements, posters, maps, and ephemera related to and produced by a variety of businesses.
Advertising ephemera
Postcard, "Dykes on Bikes: 30 Years at the Forefront. We Fought for It, We Earned It, We Own It", 2008, black & white.
AC1146-0000027tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No. 11.
[Specialty advertisement card for me.org, an HIV positive support organization]. [reproduction of color photograph].
AC1146-0000039.tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No.11, folder no.3.
Undated.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Aqualator, advertisement
Spartacus: International Gay Guide for Gay Men, 11th edition, 1981 [book].
AC1146-0000010.tif (AC Scan No.: color cover)
Cover image of two men dining.
tlagay.com
Promotional and advertising fans
[Fan with handle, "Quench your insatiable desire for queer TV, Showtime," 2000, color.]
AC1146-0000002.tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No. 11.
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
[Fan with wooden handle, imprinted "Queer as Folk, coming out Dec/2000, Showtime," 2000, color.]
AC1146-0000003.tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No. 11.
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
J. Crew, promotional fan
Kellogg's x glaad TOGETHER WITH PRIDE Heart-shaped Cereal, cereal boxes
[Photo book for the motion picture Longtime Companion], 1990 [book].
AC1146-0000042.tif (AC Scan No.)
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Longtime Companion [black-and-white advertisement], 1990.
AC1146-0000043.tif (AC Scan No.)
"Academy award" campaign advertisement for the 1989 motion picture, "Longtime Companion," with Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker. The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the words The New York Times used to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS during the 1980s.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Philadelphia [color movie poster].
AC1146-0000048.tif (AC Scan No.)
TriStar Pictures, 1993. Image includes stars Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
TV Week [magazine], .
AC1146-0000041.tif (AC Scan No.: cover).
Chicago Tribune newspaper, November, 1985. Cover illustration: photograph of Aidan Quinn and Ben Gazzara.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
This subseries contains emphera from a variety of bars, restaurants, discos, and businesses. Items may be club cards, flyers, menus, advertising, business cards, there is a menu from the restaurant Nora for the day the Supreme Court ruled on Marriage Equality (2015 June 26), it also includes an employee dog tag from Phase One (Washington, D.C.). This series includes Orlando, Florida area material collected after the Pulse nightclub massacre 2016 June 12.
The Brig, bar advertising poster (Baltimore, Maryland), circa 1979-1980
The Brig bar, Baltimore, Maryland. [black and white poster].
AC1146-0000047m.tif(AC Scan No.)
Oversize folder.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Roxy (New York, New York)
[Specialty advertisement for Roxy Cares benefit for the Gay Men's Health Clinic]. [color advertisement].
AC1146-0000035.tif(AC Scan No.)
Box No.11, folder no.12.
Printed in red. Event took place Saturday, December 9, 1995.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
[Specialty advertisement for Roxy benefit Mark de Solla Price's book, Living Positively in a World with HIV/AIDS : [color advertisement].
AC1146-0000036.tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No.11, folder no.12.
Event took place Saturday, May 6, 1995.
Displayed in Archives Center exhibition, "Archiving the History of an Epdemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009," June 3, 2011-October 3, 2011. Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., curator.
Studio 54
Sundance Saloon, San Francisco, 2 Stepping, 2 Nights! Thursday and Sunday Nights! [undated color postcard].
AC1146-0000026.tif (AC Scan No.)
Fun Maps, Baltimore and Rehobeth Beach
Fun Maps...mapping the gay & lesbian world, 2006-2007 Edition, Dallas [color pamphlet].
AC1146-0000007.tif (AC Scan No.)
Box No. 11.
Shown in "Stonewall" display, Archives Center display case, June-July 2000.
Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" [booklet].
AC1146-0000033.tif (AC Scan No.: cover)
Published Nov. 30, 2010.
This series contains material collected by and related to JEB (Joan E. Biren) noted lesbian photographer and "internationally recognized documentary artist". This series is arranged chronologically. This series contains publications, calendars, postcards, catalogues from photography exhibitions, press about JEB's exhibitions, and other items using JEB's photography. There is advertising and promotion material from her book,
Subseries 1, Xerographic Copies of Photoprints, ?-?, undated. In some instances, the copyright date that is sometimes stamped on the print is obviously not the date the photograph was taken.
Subseries 2, Posters and Oversize Advertisement, 1973-2009, undated
"A Calendar for Women Photographs by JEB"
Women's concert posters
"Photographs by JEB (Joan E. Biren)" for
Various identified
Bookstores
Identified candid portraits
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) marches, Washington, D.C.
Olivia Records
"Someone in your life is gay", The Gay Activists Alliance (Washington, D.C.), bus card advertisement
Sweet Honey in the Rock, 8th Anniversary Concert (Washington, D.C.), poster
Olivia Records, poster
This series contains material related to the production of
This series contains advertisements, posters, maps, and ephemera related to and produced by a variety of bars and discos.contains material generated or collected by the Mattachine Society. The Mattachine Society Foundation was founded in 1950 and the society was founded in 1953 as a chartered non-profit corporation in California. Chapters were established throughout the United States. These papers were predominately those owned by Harold L. Call (1917-2000), editor of the Mattachine Review and are incomplete but give a broad scope of the beginnings of Mattachine and its eventual demise.
This series contains many publications authored by James Kepner, science fiction, poetry writer and founder of what eventually became the ONE Archive. Many of these were sold with benefits going to fund the on-going work of the archive. This subseries contains publications that would have been produced by the Mattachine Society or found in their library.
This series contains photographic prints of individuals photographed for Washington D.C.'s Rainbow History Project "Community Pioneers, Creators of Washington DC's Day Community". Unless otherwise noted photographs in this series are by Patsy Lynch. Other photographers represented are Joan E. Biren "JEB", Doug Hinkle, and Jim Marks.
This series contains material collected from Sean O. Strub, publisher and executive editor of POZ magazine by Katherine Ott, curator, Division of Medical Sciences, for the HIV and AIDS exhibit mounted at NMAH in 2011. The series contains the premiere issue of POZ magazine from April 1994 and others, one featuring Magic Johnson on the cover. Other materials are fundraising mailings from various HIV and AIDS charity organizations and well as other organizations LGBT rights, the 1993 March on Washington for instance. There is one poster for the My Hero benefit for Stephen Gendin in 2000.
This series contains material collected from Sean O. Strub, publisher and executive editor of POZ magazine by Katherine Ott, curator, Division of Medical Sciences, for the HIV and AIDS exhibit mounted at NMAH in 2011. The series contains the premiere issue of POZ magazine from April 1994 and others, one featuring Magic Johnson on the cover. Other materials are fundraising mailings from various HIV and AIDS charity organizations and well as other organizations LGBT rights, the 1993 March on Washington for instance. There is one poster for the My Hero benefit for Stephen Gendin in 2000.
Gay and Gay Friendly Bars and Restaurants (Baltimore, Maryland and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware) Donna's Coffee Bar and Cafe, Sheridans, Shot Tower Bar, Allegro, Atlantis, Numbers, Stallions, Splash, Ethels, The Irish Pub, One World Café, Caldron Crafts, Pump Room, Never On Sunday, Midtown Deli, Howard's Deli, Buttery Restaurant, Wilson-Lee House B&B, Saturday's, City Café, The Casino Bar, Cloud 9 Restaurant (Rehoboth Beach, DE), Blue Moon (Rehoboth Beach, DE)
Drag performers (Jeff Claggett and unidentified), drag shows
HIV/AIDS related; art installation; memorial garden; AIDS Quilt squares; posters; candlelight vigil, Ellen DeGeneres and Elizabeth Taylor on the Mall (Washington, DC); protests; clinics; AIDS Quilt square for Dr. Tom Waddell; "first fall fundraiser @ Aquarium (Baltimore, Maryland); Act Up; "Day Without Art"; obituary photograph for Dean C. Cooke
Assorted photographs; "Girl's Ranch"; door to Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment; Leonard Matlovich; graffiti "NO FAGS ALLOWED" "FAG FREE CORNER" "HOMOPHOBIA IS A SOCIAL DISEASE" (Baltimore, Maryland); unidentified persons
This series documents Ros, a professional photographer from Miami Shores, Florida. She specializes in artwork, artwork installation, architectural and editorial photography and has made a particular effort to document the Latino LGBT community. These photographs comprises nearly 100 images spanning her career, documenting marches, protests, and individuals not only in Florida, but in California and Washington, D.C. as well.
Silvia Ros National Equality March
Proposition 8 rally, San Francisco, California; Clinton, Kate; Creating Change, Dallas, Texas; Strong, Charlene; Kennedy, Elke; Wolf, Sherry; Amendment 2 protest, Miami Beach, Florida; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal advocates, Miami Beach, Florida; Sousa-Rodriquez, Felipe; Sousa-Rodriquez, Juan; Hierro, Juan del; Health care access; Langbehn, Janice; Littrell, Beth; National Center for Lesbian Rights; Kendall, Kate; Transgender activists; Lam, Jessica; Gay adoption in Florida; Gill, Martin; Gay Pride parade, Miami Beach, Florida; Gay American Heroes Foundation
National Equality March, Operation Shine Youth Speak Out, Washington, D.C.; Hardman, Jill; Noble, Cai Chloe; Choi, Dan; Kelly, Erin; Tolle, Cameron; Sathe, Vineet; Jelley, Blake; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal advocates; Bounville, Alan; Camp, Nora; Dillon, Natasha; Dibona, Lana; Reed, Mark; Tischer, Anne; Pietrangelo, James; Proposition 8 rally, San Francisco, California; Gawlica, Helaine; Amendment 2 protest, Miami Beach, Florida; Gay adoption in Florida; Gill, Martin and children
This series contains two United States diplomatic passports for Ambassador David Huebner, Ambassadour to New Zealand and Samoa from 2009-2014, and his husband, Dr. Duane E. McWaine and four challenge coins issued by Ambassadour Huebner during his time in office. Huebner was nominated to the post by President Obama in October 2009. He was confirmed by the United States Senate in November 2009. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Huebner introduced his partner of twenty years, Dr. Duane E. McWaine; the hearing was held on the couple's 20th wedding anniversary, which Huebner acknowledged in his remarks. He was the first openly gay ambassdor in the Obama administration and the third openly gay ambassador in United States history. Huebner was sworn in by Vice President Joseph Biden in December 2009. Dr. McWaine is the first same-sex spouse of an ambassador to be identified as a spouse in his passport.
This addendum also includes four challenge coins issued during Huebner's term of office. "A challenge coin is a small coin or medallion (usually military), bearing an organization's insignia or emblem and carried by the organization's members. Traditionally, they are given to prove membership when challenged and to enhance morale. In addition, they are also collected by service members. In practice, challenge coins are normally presented by unit commanders in recognition of special achievement by a member of the unit. They are also exchanged in recognition of visits to an organization." (Wikipedia, accessed 2014 July 8.) The coins commemorate the 70th anniversary of U.S. and New Zealand bilaterial relations; 175 years of U.S. diplomatic presence in New Zealand (picturing Jame Reddy Clendon, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Rangitiaria Dennan); Samoa decorated with the U.S., Samoan, and Rainbow flags on the reverse; and New Zealand, decorated with the U.S., New Zealand, and Rainbow flags on the reverse.
This series contains letters and addressed envelopes to Philip St. George (?-1997) of New York City. St. George's correspondents tell of their experiences in the armed forces after World War II and their life after the war.
AC1146-0000117-01 to AC1146-0000273 (AC Scan)
Ink and pencil on paper.
In Box 84, Folders 1 - 10.
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
These letters are clues to a secret life. This is a series of letters and addressed envelopes sent to Philip St. George (?-1997) of New York City who, from all indications, identified as being a closeted gay man. George's correspondents, who may have also have been gay or bisexual, tell of their experiences in the armed forces after World War II and their life after the war, 1945-1953.
Bennett, Constance to St. George, Philip
Kazor, Stephen J. to St. George, Philip
Warren, Christopher to St. George, Philip
Calardo, Anthony to St. George, Philip
Calardo, Anthony to St. George, Philip, envelopes
Cateux, Michel to St. George, Philip, envelopes
Correspondence and envelopes of Philip St. George
Envelopes addressed to St. George, Philip
This series contains material from the popular television show of the same name that aired on network television (NBC) from Sept. 21, 1998 to May 18, 2006. The show is recognized as the one of the most successful television series featuring gay principal characters. This series contains donations from the shows creators David Kohan and Matt Mutchnick, including copies of Mutchnick's correspondence with the Human Rights Campaign, copies of the show's scripts, a press kit, and other materials associated with the production of the show.
This series contains documents, photographs, and personal ephemera produced and collected or produced by Joseph T. Barna (1949-2014), associated with his personal life and his position as board member of Heritage of Pride, New York, New York. Barna was born in Middlebury, Vermont and grew-up in Brandon, Vermont. His parents were teachers at Brandon High School and Otter Valley Union High School where Barna was a member of the debating team. While at Otter Valley he organized a group named The Stage Crew to assist with the lighting for dramatic productions. Barna graduated from Otter Valley Union High School in 1967. Barna graduated with a B.A. from Yale in 1971 and later went on to graduate with his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Dramatics in technical design and construction in 1981.
He occasionally taught a course on electrics at Yale as well as working as a computer programmer and later as a lighting designer for theatrical and dance productions in Oregon, New York, New York, and the New York City area. He was adjunct faculty for the Institute of Design & Construction (IDC). He was an amateur historian of wooden roller coasters. Barna died 2014 June 8 at the Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City from "a combination of illnesses."
Barna's association with Heritage of Pride (HOP), the producing organization for the annual New York Pride Parade, began in the 1980s. He was one of HOP's leading photographers up until his death in 2014. Heritage of Pride (HOP) is the successor organization to the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee. HOP is a non-proft orgainzation that plans, coordinates, and sponsors the annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride week in New York City commemorating the Stonewall riots of June 1969. The HOP archives are housed at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, "The Center", in New York City. This series is divided into three subseries.
This subseries contains photographic prints (not all have corresponding negatives) and photographic negatives, the majority photographed by Barna unless otherwise noted. Many of Barna's photograpic descriptions were copied and inserted into the archival sleeve with the corresponding photographs. Photographic envelopes were also archived within the collection. The bulk of Barna's photographs are centered on New York Pride, events at Yale University, and International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators (IALGPC), as well as various Prides held elsewhere and rallies in New York and other venues.
Heritage of Pride (HOP) Rally, New York, New York
New York City, parade, New York, New York
Heritage of Pride (HOP), parade and street fair, New York, New York
Gay Lesbian Pride Rally, Heritage of Pride (HOP), New York, New York
Heritage of Pride (HOP), parade and street fair
New Jersey Pride, New Jersey
Rally, Heritage of Pride, "B&W Best", New York, New York
Heritage of Pride, Pridefest, New York, New York
Heritage of Pride (HOP), New York, New York
Heritiage of Pride (HOP), Barna, Joseph T. personal
Pride, New York, New York
This subseries contains Pride programs, and other periodical and publications associted with Pride.
This series contains newsletters and material from the Vermont Gay Social Alternative (VGSA), Pride Vermont, and personal material from John E. Becker and his husband Michael.
In 1970, Richard Rohrbaugh was one of six co-founders of the Gay Activists Alliance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This series includes gay related periodicals from Philadelphia as well as Washington, D.C.. There are early issues of Washington's
Gay Pride march, photographs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This series includes material relating to the appointment and career of Michael E. Guest, openly gay United States Ambassador to Romania, 2001-2004 during the George H. Bush presidential administration. He was dean of the Foreign Services Institute, 2004-2007 until the time he resigned from the State Department over the treatment of LGBT persons and same-sex couples. This series includes many of the items associated with his appointment, invitations, remarks, Guest''s diplomatic passport and the accompanying Romanian identify card issued to his husband Alexander Nevarez, issued because the State Department did not recognize Nevarez as Guest's husband. There are news clippings and an e-mail whose contents denote the negative criticism received by the Bush adminisration due to Guest's appointment.
Pride at Work was formally founded in June 1994, in New York City, New York during the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN) had been dissatisfied with the labor movment's non-involvement during the debate over the Defense of Marraige Act (DOMA) and looked to form an organization concerned with the interests of LGBT workers. The name for the new organization was taken from a 1990 booklet titled
This series contains material collected by marriage equality pioneers Michael Sabatino and Robert Voorheis as they pursued their quest for marriage equality, this series contains correspondence, photographs, ephemera, and news clippings related to their story as well as the overarching story of marriage equality. There are also materials related to their experience of being confronted over their marriage within their church. There are materials covering the long-term relationship of Gustavo Archilla and Elmer Lokkins who became prominent examples in the quest for marriage equality. There is a complete set of The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's "And Marriage for All" playing cards. This series also contains photographs, digital photographs, and copies of two documentaries. There is an autographed copy of
Letters of support when expelled from church
News clippings
Thank you letters
Photographs: Sabatino, Michael; Voorheis, Robert, wedding ceremony
This subseries contains photographs, copies of postings on memorial websites, obituaries, and information about Gustavo A. Archilla (1915-2012) and Elmer T. Lokkins (1919-2013), marriage equality pioneers. This subseries also contains remembrances and biographies written by their neice Christina Dean. Archilla and Lokkins met in 1945 in New York City, New York and lived together over sixty years. They were married in Canada in 2003. They were profiled in the
Archilla, Gustavo A. and Lokkins, Elmer T., photographs
This series contains correspondence, ephemera, news letters, HIV and AIDS information, programs, flyers, photographs and publications related to the Gay Officers Action League. This series also includes with its correspondence hate mail received by the GOAL and material related to a harassment incident that took place during the Pride march of 1990 in New York City. This series also contains a portrait of Sargeant Charles H. Cochrane, Jr. (1943-2008) founder of GOAL, painted by Chris Morano. The portrait was presented to Cochrane's family at the naming of Charles H. Cochrane Way, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York in 2016. The Cochrane family then donated it to GOAL who donated it to the Archives Center.
This material was donated by Adele (Del) Brown. This material is memorabilia, newsletters, films, audio-visual, and ephemera from Changing Herizons, Incorporated, a 501(c)3 that was known as Herizon, a membership only "women's social club" in Binghamton, New York, a, "lesbian community center, dance club, and safe lesbian and woman-centered social space" that was open from 1975-1991. Brown supplied this biographical note, "Producer of 1980's lesbian-feminist culture (including women's music concerts, Herizon home movies, photography, and collage) and, in 1981, one of the first women to work on Capitol Hill as a broadcast news 'cameraman' (field producer/videographer.) She was also a radio producer, sound engineer, university instructor, media tech specialist, editor, queer media collector, writer, and advocate for social justice. As an active Herizon member (1982-1991) Del Brown worked to build, and document, this membership-only "women's social club." This series contains material from the 1987 and 1993 Marches on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights. This series also contains correspondence and photographs from Brown's friend Steven F. Sleap. Sleap was a puppeteer. This series is arranged chronologically with the Sleap material at the end.
Herizon Bar, scrapbook
Herizon's Haggadah
Personal correspondence and ephemera
Ferron, event poster
"I Love You Like a Ball and Chain" and "Sisters Are Doin It for Themselves," 45 rpm recording, Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
Womyn's Art, bumper sticker
Newsclippings
"The Courage to Dare," compact disc, Rogow, Faith
Herizon, ephemera
The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), later the Universal Fellowship Metropolitan Community Church (UFMCC), was founded by the Reverend Mr. Troy Perry in 1968. From their website, "Founded in 1968, Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) has been at the vanguard of civil and human rights movements by addressing issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, economics, climate change, aging, and global human rights. MCC was the first to perform same-gender marriages and has been on the forefront of the struggle towards marriage equality in the USA and other countries worldwide." (MCC website accessed 2019 December 13)
This series contains photographs from the Perry family, MCC events, materials related to and developed by the HIV/AIDS ministry under the direction of the Reverend Mr. A. Stephen Pieters. There are also publications, anniversary books, a program from the 2019 convention in Orlando, Florida and a 1993 typescript of MCC history.
This short biography was submitted by the donors Myra Lynn Cones and G. Yvonne Harris in October 2022
"Short Biography from 1981-2022
We first met in 1980, at on a military base in Hampton, Virginia. We were both working at the Arts and Crafts Center. We became friends first, through our love of art and being artists ourselves.
Soon there after we discovered that this was not the first time we had met. While discussing one day about our lives in Hampton, we discovered that we went to the same kindergarten school, at the same time! The conversation started like this:
Yvonne: I went to Jones Kindergarten. Myra: So, did I. Yvonne: Do you remember the Humpty Dumpty play at the end of the year? I played one of the soldiers in the group. Myra: Yep, I was a soldier too. Do you remember the Christmas party? Yvonne: Yeah, I do. Myra: Well, my dad played Santa.
That's when we knew this was too special to ignore.
In March of 1981 we moved in together as roommates. By May, we were a couple.
We were invited to our first lesbian bar, by a couple who could not believe in the three years we were together thus far, we had never been to one. We went to a place in Norfolk, Virginia called the Her She Bar. Funny how we describe the night like that scene in the Wizard of Oz, when the film is in black and white and the door of the bar opened up and there was color. And that was the start of our foray into the Gay and Lesbian scene in the 80's. We came out to our family in the 80's. Considering both of us coming from Christian raised families, they did very well with their acceptance.
We became part of the community, by participating in art shows at the local women's bars, and women events at the local college. Later we ventured outside the area to do shows at other women's events in Norfolk, Richmond, and the famous Women's festival Sisterfire.
We decided that we wanted to move to Washington DC, because there was an active artists and LGBT community. We both worked retail, we found that we could transfer through our companies.
In 1990, we both moved to Washington DC. While starting out in DC Yvonne had a part-time job at the well known LGBT bookstore Lambda Rising, owned by Deacon MacCububbin, and then Lammas Women Bookstore, owned and operated by Mary Farmer. We were learning about the community, participating in Pride events, and living our best LGBT life. We stayed for 10 years in a little one-bedroom apartment and later bought our first home in 2000.
After Washington DC legalized gay marriage in 2010, We decided to jump the broom. We were first going to have the ceremony done at the justice of the peace. But remembered that we had a client, who was a patron of our work who was not only clergy, but was also Lesbian. We contacted the Reverend Bonnie Berger. Reverend Bonnie conducted many weddings, and after the announcement of legalized marriages came through, she was indeed a busy woman. So, we gave her a date and she was ready to do the ceremony on May 9, 2010. We had a boat at the time, and thought that having the ceremony at the marina would be great. So, we had our boat at the dock and the guests on the pier. Not only did the invited guess come, but we were surprised to see all the folks we knew at the marina, our fellow boaters. The guys and their wives and girlfriends showed up for support and love.
As of this year 2022, we have been together 41 years. And we have enjoyed being in the city, in the heart of the artistic world, galleries, and museum that continues to feed our creativity, and seeing the advances that have been made in rights and visibility in the LGBTQ community. We've seen a lot in these 40 odd years. One doesn't realize that until you have a conversation with a 20 something year old young gay man, who looks at you in astonishment when they discover that you've been an out lesbian in the 80's.
Co-worker: How long have you two been together Yvonne: We've been together 41 years, married for 12 Co-worker: (eyes wide) Wow, that long. That was at a time when it was hard, being out in the 80's. Was it scary?
That is how far we've come. Wizard of Oz, black and white to color!"
This series contains materials collected and created by Myra Lynn Cones and her wife, G. Yvonne Harris. The series includes photographs, emphemera, periodicals, magazines, programs and commemorative materials from musical groups (The Village People) and television shows (Queer as Folk) as well as materials relating to marches (A Simple Matter of Justice, 1993), the AIDS Quilt, the women's festival Sisterfire, and an original poem.
Sisterfire (Takoma Park, Maryland) festival program
Sisterfire (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) festival program
Sisterfire (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) festival program
Sisterfire, vending booth of Harris and Cones (Takoma Park (school grounds), Maryland)
Sisterfire, Alice Walker signing, Odetta, Yvonne Harris at vending booth, Prince George's Equestrian Center (Upper Marlborough, Maryland)
AIDS Quilt on the National Mall (Washington, DC)
On Our Backs (San Francisco, California)
Gay rodeo competition has been a part of the LGBT culture since the first rodeo was held in Reno, Nevada in 1976. The Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA) is a member of the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA). IGRA, founded in 1985, is the sanctioning organization for gay rodeos in the United States and Canada. ASGRA was founded and seated at the 1991 IGRA Convention. ASGRA covers the states of Delaware, Maryland, metropolicant New York, New Jersey, and Virginia as well as the District of Columbia. ASGRA's annual rodeo is the Atlantic Stampede.
From the 2003 Atlantic Stampede program, "What is ASGRA? The Talantice States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA) is a charitable and social organization whose primary purpose is to promote the sport of rodeo and foster country and western lifestyles in the gay and lesbian community. ASGRA members enjoy the fellowship of numerous social, recreational and education activities.
ASGRA educates, trains, and fields individuals and teams to compete in International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) rodeos.
ASGRA provides rough stock and camp events training, training in horsemanship and horse speed events, and calf roping, trail riding as well as barbecues and other social events, country and western dance instruction and competition, and promotes awareness and provides information regarding animal welfare. ASGRA also sponsors Atlantic Stampede, the annual rodeo and country western festival held each fall in the Washingon, DC metropolitan area. Atlantic Stampede is one of the largest gay rodeos in the U.S.
Since the founding of ASGRA in 1991, the association has raised and distributed thousands of dollars to gay, lesbian, and other local charities in Maryland, Virginia, New York, and the District of Columbia.
Over the years, ASGRA has grown to become one of the largest gay and lesbian organizations in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, with approximately 200 registered members throughout the United States and Canada." Atlantic Stampede 2003, program, page 3.
ASGRA fully subscribes to the IGRA Animal Welfare Statement.
This series contains programs for the Atlantic Stampede, newsletters, photographs, and ephemera from the Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA).
Meryl Hooker (1971--) was President of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi Alliance at The George Washington University from 1992 – 1995 and helped coordinate the student activities for the 1993 March on Washington. In spring 1994, she was a volunteer with Stonewall 25 in New York. She was the recipient of the 1995 Baer Award for Individual Excellence by the George Washington University Office of Student Life. From 1996 – 1997, she worked as the Event Coordinator at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In the late 1990's she worked at Lammas Women's Books and More, produced some of the early DC drag king shows with Puss 'N Boots Productions, and helped to build community through the True Spirit conferences (1998 – 2003). She was an activist, organizer, performer, and amateur historian of the queer community in Washington, DC until 2023.
Materials collected by Meryl Hooker in a variety of activities as an activist, organizer, performer, and amateur historian. The material contains programs and ephemera from Pride celebrations, the 1993 March on Washington, and other events. There are also materials from Hooker's thesis centering on The Furies a Washington DC woman's collective of twelve young lesbians the early 1970s. These include interviews with the remainging Furies and a copy of Hooker's thesis.