Documents Tagged ‘gay’
Community Services Listing
Archive Entry Date: 12/12/79
Community Services Listing featuring phone number for Pacific Center and Switchboard
United Way To Aid Gays
Archive Entry Date: 9/1/1977
In a coup for Pacific Center and gay rights, United Way decided to support the center with a grant
Open Letter To CETA Commissioners and Berkeley City Council
Archive Entry Date: 6/9/1977
Pacific Center's director skewered employment commissioners who had mocked him for being gay
Gay Switchboard
Archive Entry Date: 5/8/75
Pacific Center began with a Gay Switchboard that was pivotal for the queer community
East Bay Gay Will Counsel Gays
Archive Entry Date: 7/20/73
East Bay Gay expands service to include free counseling sessions
Splits Radicalize People
Archive Entry Date: 10/71
The Effeminists split off from the Gay Liberation Front, leading to divides within the East Bay gay community
People’s Alternative
Archive Entry Date: 10/1970
A liberated zone across from the White Horse bar for radical gays
NACHO Protest
Archive Entry Date: 8/28/1970
The tensions between the homophile groups and Gay Liberation come to a head at the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations
Macy’s 40 Protests
Archive Entry Date: 8/1/1970
The Gay Liberation Front and the homophile groups unite and splinter over the protest of Macy's discriminatory policing practices
5-Square, 4-Square
Archive Entry Date: 08/1970
Coffeehouses for and by the gay community are created all over the East Bay
Gay Switchboard
Archive Entry Date: 1970-1977
A logistical center for the gay community, using the telephone to create unity
Pat Parker
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
The Black Panther Party and the Berkeley Gay Women's Liberation founder Pat Parker's life and political influence
Judy Grahn and the Women’s Press Collective
Archive Entry Date: 12/69
Gay Women's Liberation is founded in 1969 and fights for the voices of gay identified women
The Tavern Guild’s Beaux Arts Ball
Archive Entry Date: 10/31/1969
Gay Radicals advocate for the decriminalization of gender non-conformity and clash with the homophile organizations
“Friday of the Purple Hand”
Archive Entry Date: 10/31/1969
The homophile organizations and the radical gay groups unify to protest the San Francisco Examiner's treatment of homosexuals
The Committee for Homosexual Freedom
Archive Entry Date: 3/28/1969
Leo Laurence calls for a radical break from homophile organizations and the formation of a new gay coalition