924 Gilman Rules
924 Gilman Street is a well know punk club in Berkeley California. The club operates as a collective and has a number of rules and bylaws. Most of these rules and bylaws are kept in a folder, along with notes from the membership meetings. The collective is able to change the rules of 924 Gilman Street at these meetings.
Some of the most contentious meetings in the past included the ban on smoking cigarettes inside the club and the raising of the door price from a fixed five dollars. Other rules have stayed the same throughout the clubs existence.
The most well known rules of 924 Gilman Street include:
- NO RACISM
- NO SEXISM
- NO HOMOPHOBIA
- NO TRANSPHOBIA
- NO ALCOHOL
- NO DRUGS
- NO FIGHTING
- NO STAGEDIVING
- NO MAJOR LABEL BANDS
How strictly these rules are enforced depends on those involved in the club at the time. The club is made up of a constantly-changing set of volunteers who interpret rules in different ways.
