Justin Trudeau’s epic apology to sexual minorities in Canada for decades of “systemic oppression, criminalization and violence” stands as a stark reminder for LGBT Americans that our history of ruinous […]

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recently acquired an archival collection related to the work of John J. Smid, a former minister and proponent of conversion therapy. The collection […]

What can the passing of Hugh Hefner possibly mean to LGBT Americans? “Hef’s” world at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a dazzling Sixties mash of hetero sex and […]

Government documents related to former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s purge of gay and lesbian federal government employees will be released after McDermott Will & Emery attorneys scored a pro […]

U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth Orders Department of Justice and FBI to Expand Searches; Review and Release More Documents Related to Eisenhower “sexual perversion” Executive Order July 31—In […]

July 19, 2017—The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. donated two significant documents from the now-defunct and once largest “ex-gay” conversion therapy ministry “Love In Action”(LIA) to the Smithsonian’s National Museum […]

Charles Francis, president of the Mattachine Society, which conducts research and offers education programs focused on gay and lesbian policies, noted that a 1964 Mississippi State Sovereignty report targeted Smith and […]

The former leader of a religious-oriented ‘conversion therapy’ ministry called Love In Action that sought to change its clients from gay to straight has donated the ministry’s voluminous archives to […]