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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 10th Archivist of the United States David Ferriero addressed The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., on May 21 at a reception hosted by the international law firm McDermott Will […]
Our “archive activism” is highlighted in a feature in this week’s “Washington Blade”.
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