Government claims a “deliberative process privilege” sixty-three years after the federal ban on LGBT employment The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, represented by pro bono legal counsel McDermott, Will & […]
Student researchers in the William & Mary Mattachine Research Project presented their findings this week on Virginia LGBT history. Speaking on different topics of queer Virginia history, the students discussed […]
Newly-released documents from the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas reveal how the Johnson Administration purged two men from the White House after years of loyal service, on the […]
The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. has been honored to research the “deleted” gay past at the Leontyne Price Library archive at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Price’s mother […]
The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. is proud to announce the launch of the Mattachine Research Project, in collaboration with the College of William and Mary. Students from the College […]
SIGN THE PETITION J. Edgar Hoover’s name–synonymous with illegal government intrusion, abuse of power, and warrantless surveillance and harassment of activists and politicians–is a stain on the FBI, and must […]
The Justice Department is facing new calls to investigate the Cold War-era, anti-gay blackmail plot that led to the suicide of Senator Lester Hunt. The Wyoming Senator’s son, Lester Hunt, […]
Why did Ronald Reagan wait seven long, painful years before addressing the AIDS crisis? He became president in 1981, roughly the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but did not mention […]
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