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Author Archives: Charles Francis

“Uniquely Nasty” to be screened at U.S. Department of Labor PRIDE event

May 29, 2017by Charles Francis

On June 6, AFGE Local 12, AFL-CIO will hold a screening of “Uniquely Nasty” at the Frances Perkins Building, the national office of the U.S. Department of Labor. MSWDC President […]

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“Uniquely Nasty” Wins Edward R. Murrow Award

May 27, 2017by Charles Francis

I am thrilled to announce that Yahoo News has won an Edward R. Murrow Award in the News Documentary category for “Uniquely Nasty,” our groundbreaking short film that shed new […]

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Redistricted Comics: Gay is Good

May 16, 2017by Charles Francis

ReDistricted, an online comics anthology focused on Washington D.C.’s history, published a feature on Frank Kameny. Read the full two-page story by clicking the strip below. Story by Bizhan Khodabandeh and James Moffitt […]

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Archive Activism: Vergangenheitsbewaltigung!

May 16, 2017by Charles Francis

“Self-admitted homosexual” was the bureaucratic pejorative for Thomas H. Tattersall, certified insane, federal employee, resident of St. Elizabeth’s federal psychiatric hospital during the 1950s in Washington, DC. A destination for […]

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LA Blade: ‘No history, no equality’

April 17, 2017by Charles Francis

There’s a fear afoot in America. LGBT people have made much progress but are still second-class citizens in many respects. Now, under Donald Trump, there appears to be an intentional […]

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MSDC v. DOJ: Read the Motion in Opposition to the Department of Justice

March 19, 2017by Charles Francis

Read MSDC’s new motion in opposition to the Department of Justice.

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Washington Post: Kerry’s “Lavender Scare” apology reveals an important shift in LGBT politics

January 19, 2017by Charles Francis

Unless you read the LGBT newspaper The Advocate or lurk about the State Department website, you may have missed it — but John F. Kerry accomplished something unprecedented on Jan. […]

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Roll Call: The Quest to Recover Lost Gay Histories

June 24, 2016by Charles Francis

Charles Francis sets three books down on the table. “These are the last three biographies of President Eisenhower,” he says. “Not one of them mentions Executive Order 10450.” That 1953 […]

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