These are a couple of the original picket signs we helped gay civil rights pioneer Frank Kameny donate to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.   They were carried […]

Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade, a documentary produced by The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, will receive an Excellence in Journalism Award from NLGJA, The Association […]

Lou’s Legacy: A Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade has been nominated for a Capital Emmy in the “Documentary – Historical” category by the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of […]

It is inspiring to see the Smithsonian magazine describe gay civil rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s pair of handwritten notebooks held in the Archives Center of the National Museum of American […]

Watch a preview of “Lou’s Legacy: A Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade” on PBS’s website.

It was their day. DC drag star “Ella Fitzgerald” and veteran Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. were each honored with an official Mayoral Proclamation from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declaring […]

The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC to premiere documentary film Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade. “Is the Mattachine Society still around?”, people ask incredulously when I […]

With Executive Orders flying, now is a good time for LGBTQ Americans to refresh ourselves on the grandaddy of them all that continue to target us.  This is President Eisenhower’s so-called […]