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 […]
Author Archives: Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.
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 […]
Message in a bottle from a terrible time: Gary Bauer to Ronald Reagan, no homosexuals on the AIDS Commission
We discovered this gem of animus earlier this year at the Reagan Presidential Library: “I have opposed the notion that we should seek out a homosexual to be on your […]
The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. salutes Eric Julber
Eric represented One Magazine before the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case One, Inc. v. Olesen (1958), helping secure free speech rights for homosexuals. The U.S. Postal Service […]
Charlie Baker Returns to Washington
Charles W. “Charlie” Baker was fired in 1971 from his job at the National Bureau of Standards for being homosexual. The letter he received from the U.S. Civil Service […]
Library of Congress Digitizes and Posts Vincenz Documentaries
From 16mm tins “bicycled” around the country for $30 rental fees to today’s Library of Congress digital global platform, Lilli Vincenz’ documentaries on the earliest gay rights demonstrations are now […]
From the sidewalk to the East Room
A number of the epic picket signs carried in 1965 in front of LBJ’s White House by the original Mattachine Society of Washington will be on display in the White […]
The New York Times reports on Mattachine archive activism
Our research on J. Edgar Hoover’s “Sex Deviate” program; and the U.S. Civil Service Commission internal memoranda (1964) on homosexuality–“something uniquely nasty”– is featured in a New York Times, May 21 […]
