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Author Archives: Charles Francis

Vergogna: Ital n. shame

June 16, 2024by Charles Francis

Martha-Ann Alito described a new flag she wants to design and fly when husband Justice Sam Alito is “free of this nonsense”.  Like a mean Betsy Ross responding to PRIDE, her […]

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Thank you, Lilli Vincenz!

Featuredby Charles Francis

June=PRIDE and time to remember the gay and lesbian pioneers who invented the world of Liberation without a roadmap. Lilli Vincenz (1927-2023) produced and directed the historic documentary “Gay & […]

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Filthy

February 29, 2024by Charles Francis

by Charles Francis You heard it right. “Filth” is what the Oklahoma state senator called us in response to a question about the Oklahoma state legislature’s near obsessive focus on […]

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Archive Activism in Action

February 1, 2024by Charles Francis

No better example of how our archive activism works than The Atlantic contributing writer Jonathan Rauch’s piece:  “The U.S. Should Apologize to Gay People” (The Atlantic, January 26, 2024). Rauch powerfully makes the case for an […]

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Archive Activism: Memoir of a “Uniquely Nasty” Journey

June 21, 2023by Charles Francis

I am thrilled to announce my book Archive Activism, Memoir of a “Uniquely Nasty” Journey will be published this August by the UNT (University of North Texas) Press.  The book is about […]

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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 […]

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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 black Rust […]

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Lilli Vincenz: Lesbian Pioneer

June 21, 2019by Charles Francis

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

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