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Remember California Hall by Frank Fitch
Published in Vector, February 1973, pages 32-35. From private papers of Chuck Lewis.
Report to Concerned People Recaps the Founding of CRH, the California Hall Incident and Resultant Activity
Written by Lewis Durham, program director, Glide Urban Center, mid-1965. Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin Papers.
San Francisco Chronicle Article Reporting the Release of Brief of Injustices
San Francisco Chronicle, September 25, 1965, pages 1 and 4.
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.
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.
Vector, Newsletter of the Newly-Formed Society for Individual Rights, Reports on California Hall Affair
Vector, vol. 1, no. 2, January 1965.
“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.
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.
Oregonian Covers for Second Day
The Oregonian picks up wire stories about the fire on the following day also.
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.
162 Disheartening and Disfiguring Years to Eradicate the Spirituality and Cultural Predilections of Native American Children, and to Kill the Non-Compliant
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…
1950 Harry Hay defined homosexuals as oppressed.
In the manifesto he wrote to liberate homosexuals, he argues: “to earn ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively … for the first-class citizenship of minorities everywhere, including ourselves.”
1968 Symposium Brochure
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin Papers.
1969 Symposium Brochure
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin Papers.
1971 Symposium Brochure
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin Papers.
