Records of the Gay Community Center of DC
(Series XVIII: Lemley component)
Finding Aid Updated:
14 June 2022 by Vincent E. Slatt
Descriptive summary
Title: Records of the Gay Community Center of DC, Jim Lemley component. (“GCC-Lemley”)
Dates: bulk 1988-1990
Accession number(s): 2017.019. MS 0764 RHP, Series XVIII.
Creator: These records were created, collected, and preserved by Jim Lemley, the treasurer and bookkeeper of the Gay Community Center, DC.
Extent: One cardboard banker’s box; including a photo album.
Repository: DC History Center, as of 8 June 2017.
Abstract: The files and records of the treasurer and bookkeeper of the Gay Community Center/DC, from the operations held at its third and final home on 1228 17th Street, NW, during the years 1988-1990.
Biographical note:
Scope and content of collection:
System of arrangement:
Administrative Information
Access: Collection is at the DC History Center. It is open to all people by appointment.
Reproduction and use: All material is believed to be under copyright. Contact RHP for permission to duplicate.
Acquisition information: The material was donated in June 2014 by Thomas E. Brown, the partner of the late Jim Lemley, who served as treasurer of the Gay Community Center (at the request of then president Bob Roehr). When the Gay Community Center was being evicted from its space on 17th street; Brown and Lemley salvaged the records from the office. They were organized by Brown and then stored in their U St. storage shed in DC, until 2006, when they moved to Rehoboth Beach. As the treasurer and corporate officer of the organization, Lemley held custody and ownership of the records after the demise of the GCC/DC; after his death in 2006, Brown inherited the records and titles as the sole heir of the Lemley estate.
Processing history:
2014.07.09 Chuck Goldfarb transported the records from the home of Thomas Brown in Delaware to his home in DC.
2014.07.26 Chuck along with Timothy Meagher, Richard Haight, Esperanza Pastor and Vincent Slatt assessed the materials and created a processing plan and initial inventory and draft finding aid.
2015.07.25 Chuck, Vincent, Jon Shimabukuro, Sarah Geselowitz and Cheryl Fong revisited the original folders, consolidated and alphabetized the material, and removed duplicates when identified. Collection is ready for final folders; transport to HSW; and final boxes.
2017.04.08. Transferred materials from Chuck’s home to Vincent Slatts. Vincent with volunteers John Bailey and Brett Jens relabelled some folders and broke into boxes.
2017.04.16 Brett completed the relabelling and updated the folder labels in the inventory.
2017.05.03 Vincent scanned the photographs from the album, and placed them in printed order in archival sleeves.
2017.06.08 Vincent delivered the collection to HSW.
Next Steps for processing
CONTAINER LIST--INITIAL INVENTORY
Box 1
Series 1: Programming and organizational files
Articles of incorporation and tax exemption, 1978
Bills 1988
Biographies/applications 1989
Board meetings and attachments 1989-1990
Board of directors 1990
Board Packet 24 Oct 1989
Board resignations 1989
Budget 1996
Bylaws and proposed by-laws changes and amendments
CFC: 1990 Application
Combined Federal Campaign 1990
Communication with Landlord, 1990
Donations and Legal Documents 1983-1989
Elections to Board of Directors, 1988
Fund Readings Documents 1985
Fund Raisers, 1989
General Correspondence 1989
Grants Subcommittee 1989
Group meeting feedback, no-date
Income tax and sales tax exemption 89
Insurance 1988-1989
Jim Lemley, Nov 88, Billing
Kamakura, 10 June 1990 Event and Photos
La Gran Scena 1990
Letter of Congratulations from Mayor 9 Jan 1994
Letters to the Board 1989
Letters to the President 1989
Membership forms entered 1990
Membership list 1 July 1989
News press clippings 1989
Newspaper clippings 1990
Options for closing the Center
Pride 1982-1987
Project Oasis, 89-90
Proposals to the Board 89-90
Rent Payments
Special Events, 83-84
Strategic Plans, 89-92
Repayment Schedule for loan from Robert Medford 1988
Riggs Bank Documents 84-87
Stationary
Stock Contributions 79-89
Tenants, 88-90
Thank you letters from president 1989
USPS Bulk rate postal authorization letter, 89-90
Series 2: Financial records of the treasurer; arranged chronologically by date.
Financial records statements and invoices 1987
Financial records statements and invoices 1988
Financial records statements and invoices Jan-June 1989
Financial records statements and invoices July-Dec 1989
Financial records statements and invoices Jan-June 1990
Financial records statements and invoices July-Dec 1990
Financial records statements and invoices 1991
Financial records statements and invoices
Accounting 1987
Check books, Jan 1987-Oct 1989
Checks outgoing, 15 Sept 1988 - 29 Jan 1989
Certificate of Non-Profit Incorporation
Credit Card Plate (no date)
Income statements, Jan 1987-July 1990
Membership List, 1 July 1989
Pride 1988 Financials PEPSI
Pride 1989 Financials
Rent Payments
Series 3: Photo Album
The Gay Community Center: A Place of Our Own, at 1469 Church Street
This photo album documents the creation and early events of the GCC. The first few pages show the creation of the GCC, with some before and after contrast photos. The subsequent photos document a birthday party, presumably of the GCC. Another event that it documents is a promotion of the Center, which included two lovers riding bikes to Harpers Ferry to benefit the GCC. One photo shows a group at Le Gaulois Cafe. Another set of photos documents the GCC holiday party of 1979. It is a magnetic album, with 70 photos: 23-4x5; 39-5x7; 9-3.5x3.5; and 3-8x10.