By Charles Francis for Washington Blade As Archive Activists, we eagerly awaited this year’s opening of Republican campaign consultant Arthur J. Finkelstein’s papers at the Library of Congress. Donated by […]
The University of Virginia’s student newspaper “The Cavalier Daily” (CD) published archival features from 1975, when Board of Visitors appointee Bert Ellis “canned” an event featuring gay rights pioneer (and […]
We were thrilled this year to be contacted by Texas artist Wes Holloway about his interest in our archive activism on St. Elizabeths Hospital (for the Insane) in Washington, D.C. […]
June 22, 2022: Wilford Kale for The Virginia Gazette “WILLIAMSBURG – A new archive collection has been established at the College of William & Mary that focuses on American LGBTQ […]
Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. documents to be housed in the new American LGBTQ Political and Legal History archive. May 24, 2022: The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. has donated […]
Thinking historically, with an archivist’s mindset, about Virginia’s direction today by: Charles Francis, Mattachine president “Inherently divisive concepts” in history and education are targeted for review and elimination in Virginia, […]
Ever since we completed research—-our archive activism— at the Leontyne Price Library at HBCU Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, we longed to read something about the great Leontyne Price […]
by: John Gallagher One of the darkest stains on American history was the persecution of LGBTQ people. Bar raids, employment purges, entrapments — the tactics used to harass and ruin […]
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