resources

• Rainbow History Project: From oral histories to a places and spaces database to old flyers and t-shirts, explore the history of Queer D.C. through their digital archives and website.

• José Gutiérrez Archives: This archive, organized and created by José Gutiérrez collects, preserves, and promotes the history of the Latine LGBTQ community in Washington, D.C. The collections have four main areas of focus: HIV/AIDS activism and survival; the DC leather community; bars and nightlife; and Latine LGBTQ organizations.

• Dig DC: The People's Archive: The D.C. Public Library has a large online database of old newspapers, like the Washington Blade, photos, videos, and more. With search filters and tagged content, you can find so much information at the touch of your fingertips!

• The Internet Archive: If you’re looking for old videos, webpages, photos, or radio programming, this is your place to look! While this might not be as refined or filtered in terms of D.C. specific topics, you can still find gold, like old recordings of the Friends Radio Program, a Queer radio program from 1973 to 1982 (brought to you by the Rainbow History Project).

Many of the books, dissertations, and works listed below were foundational to not just the research for the podcast, but for the concept of the podcast. You can also hear many of the authors in season one of the podcast (or…coming soon in season two).

Books

• Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen by Theodore Green

• A Queer Capital : A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C. by Genny Beemyn

• A Place of Our Own : Six Spaces that Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas

• Queer Brown Voices : Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism, edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

• All I Could Bare : My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. by Craig Seymour

• Here Because We're Queer : Inside the Gay Liberation Front of Washington by Brian Miller

• African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. : Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation's Capital by Sabiyha Prince

• Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap by Tanya Golash-Boza

• Chocolate City : A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Muskgrove

Dissertations, News Articles, and Other Works

• D.C.’s Gay Bars: An Oral History by Ella Feldman and Sarah Marloff

• D.C. Dykaries: Phase One – D.C.’s Last Dyke Bar by Ty Ginter

• For Us, by Us, Serving Us: The ClubHouse and Prioritizing Historical Black Queer Spaces by Delan K.R. Ellington

• Do it for your sistas: Black same-sex desiring women's erotic performance parties in Washington D.C. by Dr. Michelle Carnes

• Articulating bodies in tapestries of space: Mapping ethnographies of trans social and political coalitions in Washington, DC by Elijah Adiv Edelman

• The Four Days in 1968 that Reshaped D.C. from the Washington Post

There are so many organizations and individuals who are hosting great events and programming to help folks learn more about Queer D.C. Below is a small list of some folks we think people might be interested in following/staying up to date with. D.C. offers such diverse programming, everyone can find something for them!

• Team Rayceen Productions

• Off the Mall Walking Tours

• Rainbow History Project

• DC Public Library

• DC LGBTQ+ Community Center

• Capital Pride

• Friends of Dorothy Cafe

• DC Trans Expansive

• QueerTalkDC

• Mixtape Sapphics

• Spark Social

• As You Are

• Little District Books