No better example of how our archive activism works than The Atlantic contributing writer Jonathan Rauch’s piece:  “The U.S. Should Apologize to Gay People” (The Atlantic, January 26, 2024). Rauch powerfully makes the case for an apology from the U.S. Government to LGBTQ Americans for seven decades of federal assault.  We are thrilled a good deal of his piece was drawn from the results of our archive activism working with the law firm McDermott Will &  Emery.  For more on St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane, patient Thomas Tattersall and the Farrall Instrument Company’s “shocker”, see Mattachine and McDermott’s White Paper, “The Pernicious Myth of Conversion Therapy”(October 12, 2018).  For more on the Senate Resolution of Apology, initially drafted by Mattachine team leader Jeff Trammell working with the McDermott legal team and introduced by Senator Tim Kaine (2021) see “McDermott, Mattachine Society call for the U.S. Government to Apologize” (June 17, 2021). For more on Frank Kameny and how his papers were preserved and donated to the Library of Congress, see Archive Activism: Memoir of a “Uniquely Nasty” Journey.  Bob Witeck and I co-founded the Kameny Papers Project. Mattachine co-founder Pate Felts honchoed our work on the Senate Resolution. It’s all in the book.