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 […]
Why do LGBT Americans need it? Aren’t the tens of thousands of federal investigations, firings and discharges of suspected homosexuals a thing of the past? Why must Congress say […]
Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. Salutes Senate Resolution of Acknowledgment and Apology July 7, 2021: The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. strongly supports the Senate Resolution of formal acknowledgment and […]
We are living through a time of reckoning, a time of acknowledgment and apology for catastrophic mistakes forgotten and erased. For The American Psychiatric Association (APA) this process began long […]
Do you want to remember or forget? A Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. and McDermott Will & Emery white paper calls for the U.S. Government to acknowledge and apologize for […]
The glass slides were so heavy, each nearly 4” square, designed for projection in an old “magic lantern” device at the nation’s first federal mental institution St. Elizabeths Hospital for […]
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