Documents Tagged ‘LGBT’
West Coast Women’s Festival
Archive Entry Date: 11/81
When a show of solidarity with Latin America failed in the presence of white privilege, activists repaired to Pacific Center
San Francisco Women’s Musicians
Archive Entry Date: 02/1981
The Bay Area women's music community was coalescing, but being a female musician still had its challenges
Breakdown of Trans Surgery Costs
Archive Entry Date: 1979
When a trans woman explored getting surgery, she also was directed to find community at Pacific Center
Open House
Archive Entry Date: 10/5/79
Cause for celebration: Pacific Center concluded its move to its current location on Telegraph Ave
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 07/79
Debbie and Suzanne discuss the band's musicianship and songwriting process.
Tryin’ To Survive
Archive Entry Date: 07/79
The Collective's music unifies women and fuels their struggle for liberation.
Olivia Records Advertisement for BWMC
Archive Entry Date: 04/78
The women in the BWMC describe their relationship with Olivia Records
Advertisement for “Lesbian Concentrate”
Archive Entry Date: 08/77
The members of the Collective speak to their off-center place on Olivia's roster of artists
Lesbians of Color at 1977 SF Gay Freedom Day
Archive Entry Date: 6/25/77
Lesbians of Color represent Pacific Center at 1977 SF Gay Freedom Day
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
Record Review
Archive Entry Date: 06/77
The band's first album is an "affirmation of the power of women together"
Have You Seen These Women?
Archive Entry Date: c. 1976
A flier for the BWMC suggests how they upended gender roles
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 08/75
The band on its relationship with the women's movement -- in its mid-70s moment and in retrospect
Gay and Proud
Archive Entry Date: 1975/1976
The song that profoundly affected the BWMC's audience — the uplifting but hard-edged "Gay and Proud"
We’re Hip
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Finding inspiration in incarcerated women, the BWMC were skeptical of "the bossman's game"
San Francisco Bank Song
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A portrait, in music, of a bank worker and her aspirations to broaden herself and the world
Gay Switchboard
Archive Entry Date: 5/8/75
Pacific Center began with a Gay Switchboard that was pivotal for the queer community
Fury
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A song about women's built-up rage, and how it led to a tense border stop
“No Thanks Mister”
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Nancy Henderson said "no thanks" to the bad "trips" of men she'd known
Mercy Me, I’m Lonely Tonight
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Nancy Vogl explored how the personal was the political on this track from the BWMC's first album
Sound Not Unsound Concert Review
Archive Entry Date: 05/1975
A concert critique reveals the challenges of the DIY nature of the women's music movement.
Is Women’s Music for Lesbians: A Review of Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 05/75
In "Lesbian Connection," a listener faulted the Collective for playing music for women, not lesbians
The Bloods
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Lesbians had "natural rhythm," the BWMC proclaimed in this "self-help" song about menstruation
Tryin’ To Survive (the BWMC’s second album)
Archive Entry Date: 1978
The Collective's broadened their musical palette on their second album
The Berkeley Music Collective Songbook
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A powerfully illustrated document of DIY feminist-lesbian liberation
East Bay Gay Opens New Center
Archive Entry Date: 12/19/74
When East Bay Gay opened its brick-and-mortar Pacific Center, it signalled a new inclusiveness
Redwoods, Lovely Women, New Culture: Amazon Music Project
Archive Entry Date: 10/74
The Collective lent their music to a politically charged, clothing-optional feminist festival in the Santa Cruz mountains
Bay Area Women
Archive Entry Date: 04/74
The BWMC discusses the importance of the women's music community and the shelter from the male-dominated industry it provided
“Fury” Performed Live on KQED’s “Open Studio”
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975
A video of the Collective performing "Fury" on KQED's "Open Studio" program