Volunteer with our LGBTQ History Timelines Project

One of Rainbow History Project’s initial projects was to track the milestones and moments for the LGBTQ community in the Washington, D.C., area. Discovering and documenting “what happened when?” was a critical question underlying why RHP was founded.

We need volunteers to update, enhance and research key dates of our community history. Volunteers can also assist with updating the software and presentation of our legacy timelines, which are PDF, Word charts and spreadsheets that contain data that would love to see visualized online.

Our timelines are:

• AIDS History (as of 2005)
• Bi History (1985-2005)
• DC Black Pride 1991-1995
• DC Black Pride 1995-2003
• Gay Liberation
• LGBTQ Washington (as of 2006)
• “Stepping Out:” Interfaith History (as of 2014)
• Trans History
• Trans Timeline

We have also compiled lists of important anniversaries:

• 2003 anniversaries
• 2004 anniversaries
• 2005 anniversaries
• 2008 anniversaries
• 2009 anniversaries
• 2010 anniversaries

• Make sure all legacy timelines are in the Google drive, Timelines folder.
• TimelineJS remains the best free software. It pulls spreadsheet data and can include images. Check out their Whitney Houston timeline as an example.
• Timelines need to be converted to Excel documents.

Contact us for more information or to volunteer.