The Deviant’s Trove
Click here to visit “The Deviant’s Trove” Our new feature, The Deviant’s Trove, is a collection of original, eye-popping documents we have discovered through our nine-year partnership with the law […]
Author Archives: Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. The United States of America
Links to purchase the book: Amazon Due to overwhelming demand, many bookstores are sold out. These independent bookshops are still in stock and shipping immediately. Please consider supporting them: Austin, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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