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