Thank you, Lilli Vincenz!
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 & […]
Author Archives: Charles Francis
Filthy
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 […]
Archive Activism in Action
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 […]
Archive Activism: Memoir of a “Uniquely Nasty” Journey
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 […]
The Chibbaro Files
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 […]
Freedom Summer ‘Homos’, An Archive Story
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 […]
Lilli Vincenz: Lesbian Pioneer
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The Long War Against a Gay ‘Cure’
“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 […]
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