Researching LGBTQ DC

Journalist, author, environmentalist, and animal welfare advocate. Writings, oral history transcripts, and photographs in both physical and digital formats. Material in physical format also include correspondence, notebooks, diaries, newspaper clippings, research files, and printed matter. All primarily relate to Free’s journalistic career after 1940, but researchers interested in LGBTQ material will find correspondence regarding romantic relationships that Free engaged in with several women in the 1930s and 1940s.

(Materials related to gay rights in Annual File and Letters from Readers series) Newspaper columnist and author. Correspondence, memoranda, book drafts, research files for books, notebooks and notes, articles and columns by Lewis, reports, speeches, newsletters, photographs, press releases, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material

Civil rights activist and author. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, press releases, financial records, agendas, printed material, and other papers documenting Bayard Rustin's leading role as an activist in the African-American civil rights movement, advocate of international human rights and social reform, and pacifist. Though the majority of the collection focuses on Rustin’s efforts to achieve equality for African Americans, it also contains LGBTQ material pertaining to Rustin’s own homosexuality as well as his activism in later years such as his work to have a LGBTQ rights bill passed in 1980s New York City.

Gay rights activist. Correspondence, case files, legal records, organization records, subject files, printed matter, and other papers relating to Kameny's work in the gay rights movement.

Author, journalist, and civil rights activist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, subject files, speeches and writings, family papers, appointment books and calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Forman's activities as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee. Forman’s LGBTQ material is limited to a few folders of largely printed matter and ephemera, which includes several hard to find periodicals (mostly from California) as well as flyers and other materials related to LGBTQ activism in Washington D.C. in the late 1980s.

Foreign Service officer. Court memoranda, depositions, briefs, correspondence, and other material related to Krc's legal case against the United States Information Agency.

Journalist and editor. Correspondence, interoffice memoranda, interviews, speeches, writings, reports, notes, political ephemera, photographs, and other papers documenting Downie's career as a journalist and editor at the Washington Post. Subjects include national politics, domestic terrorism, international affairs, foreign policy, and the internal operations and culture of the Washington Post. The collection’s LGBTQ material primarily deals with the newspaper’s coverage of the LGBTQ community. Though additional materials exist on the subject in the collection, a folder on the Post’s coverage features a sharp debate over the issue between newspaper and the Gay and Lesbian Allaince Against Defamation (GLAAD) from 1989-1995. Researchers interested in this topic will also want to review the Pugwash folders in the collection. The Meg Greenfield Papers described below, might also be worth consulting on the subject.

Gay rights activist, psychotherapist, and documentary film maker. Correspondence, journals, organizational files, speeches, writings, surveys and questionnaires, press clippings, printed matter, academic files, and other papers relating to Lilli Vincenz's life as a gay civil rights activist, her work to support and empower lesbians and gay men, and her documentation of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement.

Editor and journalist. Correspondence, speeches and writings, research files, interview transcripts, memoranda, minutes, reports, calendars and schedules, cartoons, financial and legal records, travel files, academic records, biographical material, honors and awards, childhood diaries and writings, family papers, photographs, scrapbooks, printed matter, and electronic files documenting Greenfield's career in journalism.

(Includes Pauli Murray materials) Lawyer, educator, diplomat, and cabinet officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, statements, notes, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Harris's cabinet positions as secretary, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (1977-1979) and secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (later, Health and Human Services) (1979-1981)

Gay rights and LGBT activist. Correspondence, news clippings, photographs, and printed matter related to different moments in Kuntzler's life as a gay rights and political activist.

Service Academy Gay And Lesbian Alumni (SAGALA) is an alumni organization dedicated to service, education, and networking. Founded in 1992 with members who attended as cadets or midshipmen one of the five federal service academies, West Point, Annapolis, the US Air Force Academy, the US Coast Guard Academy, and the US Merchant Marine Academy.

Diaries, correspondence, book files, notes, manuscripts and other materials pertaining to the career of the best selling and award winning writer, Thomas Mallon. The collection includes Mallon’s diaries dating back to the 1970s of his life in New York City during the 1980s and 1990s and later Washington D.C. during the 2000s. Mallon was active in the New York literary world while also participating in conservative politics. This collection is unprocessed and has no finding aid at this time. Access to the collection is based upon request and subject to approval by the Manuscript Division. Additionally, access to Mallon’s diaries in the collection requires permission from the donor. (contact Ryan Reft, rref@loc.gov)

Poet. Correspondence, family papers, holograph drafts of Whitman's poetry and prose, printed matter, and miscellany. Includes a printed copy of O Captain! My Captain! with Whitman's handwritten corrections and letters exchanged with Abraham Leech, Whitman's earliest known correspondence. Though largely related to his life in New York, the collection does include materials pertaining to Whitman’s time in Washington D.C. during the 1860s.