Queering St. Elizabeths
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. […]
Author Archives: Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.
“New archives at William & Mary will tell the LGBTQ story” – The Virginia Gazette
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 Donates Document Trove to William & Mary Archive of LGBTQ History
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 […]
Homosexuality, an ‘inherently divisive concept’ at UVA
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, […]
Leontyne Price, “Turbaned goddess of my Zenith” – A conversation with author Kevin Simmonds
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 […]
“An American apology for decades of anti-LGBTQ persecution is long overdue” – LGBTQ NATION
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 […]
Buffett erased gay Margaritaville?
Long before Jimmy Buffett, the gay community saved Key West. Did Buffett ever mention in public the gay community in Key West? Let Mattachine hear if he ever said the […]
ACKNOWLEDGMENT & APOLOGY: The Time Has Come
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 […]
