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Author Archives: Charles Francis

MSDC and Vincenz Featured in Philadelphia

June 25, 2018by Charles Francis

William Way LGBT Community Center announces two exhibits featuring the history of LGBTQ rights in the United States Philadelphia, PA, June 14, 2018 — Following the success of its national […]

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I was 19, gay and ready to be ‘cured’ by conversion therapy

June 10, 2018by Charles Francis

Here’s what Garrard Conley had to surrender the morning he arrived at the Love in Action facility in Memphis, Tennessee in 2004: his phone, his wallet, his driving licence and […]

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LGBTQ “Insane” at St. Elizabeths

June 1, 2018by Charles Francis

St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane was supposed to help straighten Thomas H. Tattersall out, but by all appearances, it put him through a world of pain. Tattersall was admitted […]

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Arkansas Times: Conley’s Plea

February 19, 2018by Charles Francis

Even with his facial stubble, Garrard Conley looks and acts like a diffident teenager, not a 33-year-old man who is a leading exponent of the “gay agenda,” as right-wingers refer […]

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Jan Krc donates his papers to the Library of Congress

January 25, 2018by Charles Francis

Krc represented by Frank Kameny over nine years of litigation fighting Krc’s dismissal as a homosexual from U.S. Foreign Service When U.S. Foreign Service Officer Jan Krc (pronounced Kirch) was […]

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MSDC Goes to Fayetteville

January 21, 2018by Charles Francis

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Memoirist and Arkansas native Garrard Conley – whose story is soon to be a movie starring Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe – will speak about surviving gay […]

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MSDC in the New York Times

December 30, 2017by Charles Francis

Nicolosi’s death comes at a precarious time for the ex-gay movement. Most of its once-formidable organizations (including Exodus International, Love Won Out and Jonah) have closed, and several former ex-gay […]

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Year End Letter

December 27, 2017by Charles Francis

Dear Supporter, We are not living in ‘normal’ times, but has history ever been ‘normal’ for gay Americans? Not since the reign of J. Edgar Hoover have LGBT Americans faced […]

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