Group photo of GCN members. From left to right, back row: possibly Jim Kiley, unidentified person, Mike Riegel; third row: Raymond Hopkins, Janice Irvine, Kim Westheimer, unidentified person bending forward, unidentified person, Loie Hayes,…
Ad with photograph of Richard Burns and Sue Hyde wearing GCN shirts and text: "Richard Burns: GCN, NGLTF, and the Center are institutions central to the gay community. That means they have to accommodate as broad a spectrum of political thought as…
Mev Miller reading from her essay "She’s a witch...burn her--" in Barbara Zanotti's anthology A Faith of One's Own: Explorations by Catholic lesbians (1986) at New Words Bookstore. A copy of the book is visible on the table in the foreground.
Firefighter exiting 22 Bromfield Street, the location of GCN and Fag Rag offices as well as Glad Day Books, after the 1982 arson, from Mike Riegle collection.
Tom Reeves and Mike Riegle embrace next to burned file cabinets outside 22 Bromfield Street, the location of GCN and Fag Rag offices as well as Glad Day Books, after the 1982 arson. From Mike Riegle collection.
Unidentified person, possibly Jeremy Grainger, wearing GCN tank top marching at a demonstration with the sign "for the gay man who taught in the school, rest in peace." From Mike Riegle collection.
Ann Maguire making fists as she speaks behind a podium. In the 1970s, Maguire hosted the WBUR radio show Gay Way, managed the Lesbian bar Somewhere, and served as the manager of Elaine Noble's successful 1974 election campaign. Maguire was a lifelong…
This is a promotional photograph for the lesbian performance group Split Britches in their original play "Upwardly Mobile Home." From left to right are founding members Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deborah Margolin. Split Britches performed at the…
Members of the Combahee River Collective take part in a March and Rally for Bellana Borde (15 January 1980) to protest police brutality directed at communities of color in Boston, Massachusetts.
Portrait of Gary Sandison, then President of the AIDS Action Committee, who went on to serve as the Mayor's AIDS Policy Advisor and helped implement one of Boston's first needle exchange programs.
A group of men waits on the side of the street with a banner reading: "Greetings Pope John Paul II from the Gay- Lesbian Catholics of Philadelphia Dignity" and "Gay Rights are Human Rights".
Pope John Paul II passing through the streets of Philadelphia, waving out of the sunroof of a car, with motorcycle police on either side of the car. A large group of men stand covering the Dignity banner greeting the pope.
A group of men in suits stand blocking the view of Dignity's sign greeting the Pope to Philadelphia. A sign reading "Dignity for Gay Catholics" can be seen in the crowd.
Editorial Contents Panel Members, Gay Press Conference. Left to Right: Joe Di Sabato; Ross Wetzsteon, editor, Village Voice; Dr. James Tinney, Howard University professor of journalism
Joe Di Sabato of the Gay Press Association shakes the hand of Dr. James Tinney professor of journalism at Howard University at the Gay Press Conference.
A large room with rows of tables filled with people wearing nametags and racing forward. One man stands speaking into a microphone in the center aisle of the room.
A man hands Gay Press Association president, Joe Di Sabato a proclamation from the Office of the President of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York.