Group portrait of volunteers that had refurbished the store in the new Billy DeFrank Center on Keyes Street in San Jose, California. The group includes members of the National Organization of Women (NOW). Written on recto: "3-1-81 Volunteers finish refurbishing 2-room store for the 1st Gay Community Center 25." See: Ted Sahl, "From Closet to Community," pg. 83. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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