Mattachine and “The Deviant’s War”
“Fighting Back” video featuring Dr. Eric Cervini Released by Mattachine (May 20, 2020) Dr. Eric Cervini and his forthcoming history of the early gay rights movement “The Deviant’s War, the […]
Author Archives: Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.
Mattachine Briefs PFLAG
The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. is excited to partner with Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Academy Online to tell the forgotten, often-erased, history of the “cure” […]
MSDC in NY Review of Books
Last August, while researching a book on contemporary gay rights politics, I traveled to Spain, the country with the longest history of policies intended to make amends for past wrongs […]
“The preferred terms were ‘pervert’ and ‘deviate’…”
Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Philip Kennicott on the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.’s amicus brief in the same-sex marriage cases at the Supreme Court today: “an insider’s look at […]
“History must never be erased”
Listen to Charles Francis, President of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., talk with activist Mike Rogers on The Michelangelo Signorile Show about how MSDC is at the center of […]
A Culture of Animus
A “culture of animus” is brought to chilling life in our amicus brief to the Supreme Court, written by a fantastic team of attorneys at the international law firm McDermott […]
Surrounded by Staff, Nancy Reagan “just said no” to Rock Hudson
Mattachine Society researchers discovered these Rock Hudson/Nancy Reagan documents at the Reagan Presidential Library, an illuminating 1985 time capsule from inside the Reagan White House. BuzzFeed did an amazing job […]
Petition Denied. Revolution Begun.
When does a petition denied become a revolution? The answer is history’s judgment. Gay civil rights pioneer Frank Kameny, in 1961, was denied his day before the Supreme Court, and […]
