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The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. is an educational non-profit that conducts, and will support, original archival research to tell the oft-deleted stories of LGBT political and policy history.

The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. salutes Eric Julber

October 7, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

  Eric represented One Magazine before the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case One, Inc. v. Olesen (1958), helping secure free speech rights for homosexuals. The U.S. Postal Service […]

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Charlie Baker Returns to Washington

August 28, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. 1 Comment

  Charles W. “Charlie” Baker was fired in 1971 from his job at the National Bureau of Standards for being homosexual. The letter he received from the U.S. Civil Service […]

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Library of Congress Digitizes and Posts Vincenz Documentaries

June 7, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

From 16mm tins “bicycled” around the country for $30 rental fees to today’s Library of Congress digital global platform, Lilli Vincenz’ documentaries on the earliest gay rights demonstrations are now […]

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From the sidewalk to the East Room

May 31, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

A number of the epic picket signs carried in 1965 in front of LBJ’s White House by the original Mattachine Society of Washington will be on display in the White […]

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The Archivist meets The Mattachine

May 25, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. 1 Comment

The 10th Archivist of the United States David Ferriero addressed The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., on May 21 at a reception hosted by the international law firm McDermott Will […]

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“Archive Activism” Explained

May 15, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

Our “archive activism” is highlighted in a feature in this week’s  “Washington Blade”.

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Bob Gray (1923-2014): “You Cannot Conceive”

April 25, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

I interviewed Washington “Power House” lobbyist Robert Keith Gray almost two years ago (when he was approaching 90) on-the-record for the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.  More than fifty years prior to […]

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Vincenz Papers now open at the Library of Congress

March 12, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

She was the first lesbian member of the original Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.  She was Editor of “The Homosexual Citizen”, the Mattachine monthly,  under the nom de plume Lilli […]

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The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. conducts archive activism–identifying, conserving and interpreting the LGBT historical record.

MSDC is organized and approved for charitable and educational purposes as a 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, and is incorporated as a non-profit corporation in the District of Columbia.

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