Primary Sources
East Coast Homophile Organizations Announcement, June/July 1965.
Below are copies of primary sources from 1965 to 1970. Click twice on each image for reading.
East Coast Homophile Organizations Committee on Picketing and Lawful Demonstrations, “Rules for Picketing,” June/July 1965.
“Throngs Enjoy Sun, Shore on the Fourth,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 5 July 1965, 1.
“Homosexuals Picket Independence Hall,” Philadelphia Tribune, 6 July 1965, 4.
“July 4th: Independence Hall,” Eastern Mattachine Magazine, Aug. 1965, 4-5.
Kay Tobin [Lahusen], “Picketing: The Impact and the Issues,” The Ladder, Sept. 1965, 4-8.
Franklin Kameny, “Homosexuals Picket in Washington and Philadelphia,” Eastern Mattachine Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 1965, 19-21.
Kay Tobin and Barbara Gittings, “Interview with Ernestine,” The Ladder, June 1966, cover.
Kay Tobin and Barbara Gittings, “Interview with Ernestine,” The Ladder, June 1966, 4-11.
Kay Tobin and Barbara Gittings, “Interview with Ernestine,” The Ladder, June 1966, 28.
Annual Reminder Day Committee, “2nd Annual Reminder,” June/July 1966.
Annual Reminder Day Committee Press Release, “Homosexuals to Picket Independence Hall,” 30 June 1966.
Mattachine Society of New York Press Release, “Homosexuals Cause Peace Marchers to Get Up Early,” 30 June 1966.
“Pickets Aid Homosexuals,” New York Times, 5 July 1967, 5.
“Homosexuals Launch Protest,” Bucks County Courier Times, 5 July 1967, 12.
“Homosexuals Parade, Demand Equal Rights,” Arizona Republic, 5 July 1967, 8.
Rose DeWolf, “Another Minority Bids for Equality,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 6 July 1967, 33.
“An Uneventful Demonstration,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, July-Aug. 1967, 1-2.
“News,” Drum, Sept. 1967, 7.
Webster Schott, “Civil Rights and the Homosexual: A 4-Million Minority Asks for Equal Rights,” New York Times, 12 Nov. 1967, 44-45, 49-54, 59.
“Mattachine Society Defends Homosexual’s Civil Liberties,” Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi), 15 Feb. 1968, 6.
“July Fourth Demonstration,” Daughters of Bilitis - Philadelphia Newsletter, July 1968, 4.
Eastern Regional Homophile Conference, “Fourth Annual Reminder Day,” 4 July 1968.
M. L. S., “In the Movement,” Homophile Action League Newsletter, Dec. 1968, 5.
A. B. [Ada Bello], “In the Movement,” Homophile Action League Newletter, May 1969, 4-5.
Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations Press Release, “Homosexual Reminder Day Picketing Demonstration,” 19 June 1969.
Bill Wingell, “Great to Be Gay: A Time for Holding Hands,” Distant Drummer, 10 July 1969, 8.
“150 Homosexuals Parade Before Independence Hall to Protest Mistreatment,” Philadelphia Tribune, 12 July 1969, 5.
Len Lear, “Confederate Flag Flies Atop White House,” Philadelphia Tribune, 15 July 1969, 9, 28.
“Reminder Day Demonstration,” Homophile Action League Newsletter, July 1969, 6.
“In the News,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, July 1969, 9.
A. B. [Ada Bello], “The Second Largest Minority,” Homophile Action League Newsletter, Aug.-Sept. 1969, 2.
The Ladder, Oct.-Nov. 1969, front cover, 39-40, 46, back cover.
“ERCHO Spring Conference,” Gay Power, Nov. 1969, 6.
Bob Martin, “ERCHO Meeting Adopts Radical Manifesto,” Los Angeles Advocate, Jan. 1970, 24.
