Archive activism for LGBT civil equality

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Mission
    • Board of Directors
  • The Deviant’s Trove
  • Stop Conversion Therapy
  • Pictures, Films, and Documents
    • “Uniquely Nasty” by Yahoo News
  • Legal Activism
    • Executive Order 10450
    • Amicus Brief in Support of Marriage Equality
  • Contact Us
  • Support Us

Author Archives: Charles Francis

Pete Buttigieg as Cabinet secretary is more than a ‘first’

December 21, 2020by Charles Francis

It is so much more than another “first,” Pete Buttigieg nominated as Transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be named to a Cabinet post requiring Senate confirmation. Far […]

Read Article →
Archive Activism

The Chibbaro Files

March 10, 2020by Charles Francis

Veteran Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. donates the “Chibbaro Files” to George Washington University Library Special Collections Research Center The “Chibbaro Files” gift facilitated and financially supported by The […]

Read Article →
Archive Activism

Freedom Summer ‘Homos’, An Archive Story

October 12, 2019by Charles Francis

New: Charles Francis on AHR Podcast >     This “archive story” documents how the infamous Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission harnessed homophobia to crush gay civil rights activists at historically […]

Read Article →
American Historical Review

Lilli Vincenz: Lesbian Pioneer

June 21, 2019by Charles Francis

  Visit lesbianpioneer.org >

Read Article →
Archive Activism

The Long War Against a Gay ‘Cure’

January 11, 2019by Charles Francis

“The Long War Against a Gay ‘Cure’” by James Kirchick in the New York Review of Books: For most of human history, homosexuality has been condemned on three grounds: that […]

Read Article →
Archive Activism

AP: Elections, films help effort to ban gay conversion therapy

January 9, 2019by Charles Francis

NEW YORK (AP) — Activists urging more states to ban gay conversion therapy for minors are expecting major gains in 2019, thanks to midterm election results and the buzz generated […]

Read Article →
Archive Activism

The ugly history of LGBT discrimination

December 29, 2018by Charles Francis

“The theme of the Trump Administration with regard to LGBT people is erasure. And in this time of erasure, it is vital that gay, lesbian, and trans Americans understand their […]

Read Article →
Archive Activism

StopConversionTherapy.org

December 2, 2018by Charles Francis

Visit the Mattachine Society of DC’s new website, StopConversionTherapy.org.

Read Article →
Archive Activism

Post navigation

1 2 … 5 Next →
  • Archive Activism
  • Documents
  • Films
  • Pictures

About the Mattachine Society

The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. conducts archive activism–identifying, conserving and interpreting the LGBT historical record.

MSDC is organized and approved for charitable and educational purposes as a 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, and is incorporated as a non-profit corporation in the District of Columbia.

Follow Us

Follow Us
Facebook Twitter

Categories

  • About Us
  • American Historical Review
  • Archive Activism
  • Documents
  • Films
  • Pictures

Navigation

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Mission
    • Board of Directors
  • The Deviant’s Trove
  • Stop Conversion Therapy
  • Pictures, Films, and Documents
    • “Uniquely Nasty” by Yahoo News
  • Legal Activism
    • Executive Order 10450
    • Amicus Brief in Support of Marriage Equality
  • Contact Us
  • Support Us
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×