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1920 Harlem Takes the Drag Ball to New Heights

162 Disheartening and Disfiguring Years to Eradicate the Spirituality and Cultural Predilections of Native American Children, and to Kill the Non-Compliant

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An interactive map of North America indicating the locations of the 523 schools (and 53 burial sites containing Native student bodies) established and operating between 1807 and…

10 Ways to Serve Transgender Congregants

Upstairs the Musical by Wayne Self

Playwright/composer Wayne Self wrote and produced this original musical drama portraying events around the Upstairs Lounge Fire to mark its 40th anniversary.

Oregonian Covers for Second Day

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The Oregonian picks up wire stories about the fire on the following day also.

Let The Faggots Burn: The Upstairs Lounge Fire by Johnny Townsend.

New Orleans activist and writer Townsend interviews a large number of survivors and other persons associated with the Upstairs Lounge tragedy to produce this anecdotal account of the persons who were involved in and effected by this catastrophe.

“New Orleans: Fire Upstairs” in Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America by Dudley Clendinen & Adam Nagourney.

This detailed account of the early years of the political movement for LGBT rights—1969 to 1980—includes a chapter on the beginnings of MCC and how Troy Perry and other MCC leaders responded to the Upstairs Lounge tragedy.

Vector, Newsletter of the Newly-Formed Society for Individual Rights, Reports on California Hall Affair

Vector, vol. 1, no. 2, January 1965.

The Challenge and Progress of Homosexual Law Reform (38 pages)

Published by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, Daughters of Bilitis, Society for Individual Rights, and Tavern Guild of San Francisco, 1968. From private papers of James Waller.

San Francisco’s Stonewall: Raid on Gay Dance Shoot Up the City by Allen White

Published in Bay Area Reporter, June 22, 1989. From research papers of James Waller.

San Francisco Chronicle Article Reporting the Release of Brief of Injustices

San Francisco Chronicle, September 25, 1965, pages 1 and 4.

Report to Concerned People Recaps the Founding of CRH, the California Hall Incident and Resultant Activity

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Written by Lewis Durham, program director, Glide Urban Center, mid-1965. Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin Papers.

Remember California Hall by Frank Fitch

Published in Vector, February 1973, pages 32-35. From private papers of Chuck Lewis.

Homosexuality: A Contemporary View of the Biblical Perspective by The Rev. Dr. Robert Treese (39 pages)

Prepared for the Consultation on Theology and the Homosexual, sponsored by Glide Urban Center and The Council on Religion and the Homosexual in San Francisco, August 22-24, 1966.