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We believe in the power of history. Our “Archive Activism” uncovers the historical, original , newly declassified documents, many for the first time, to educate and motivate a new generation of thought leaders, the legal community and the media.

Secretive Arthur Finkelstein, Secret No More

Featuredby Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

By Charles Francis for Washington Blade As Archive Activists, we eagerly awaited this year’s opening of Republican campaign consultant Arthur J. Finkelstein’s papers at the Library of Congress. Donated by […]

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Virginia Governor Youngkin Appoints Bert Ellis–Foe of Frank Kameny and Mattachine–to UVA Board of Visitors

Featuredby Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

The University of Virginia’s student newspaper “The Cavalier Daily” (CD) published archival features from 1975, when Board of Visitors appointee Bert Ellis “canned” an event featuring gay rights pioneer (and […]

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Queering St. Elizabeths

June 23, 2022by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

We were thrilled this year to be contacted by Texas artist Wes Holloway about his interest in our archive activism on St. Elizabeths Hospital (for the Insane) in Washington, D.C. […]

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“New archives at William & Mary will tell the LGBTQ story” – The Virginia Gazette

Featuredby Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

June 22, 2022: Wilford Kale for The Virginia Gazette “WILLIAMSBURG – A new archive collection has been established at the College of William & Mary that focuses on American LGBTQ […]

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Mattachine Donates Document Trove to William & Mary Archive of LGBTQ History

Featuredby Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. documents to be housed in the new American LGBTQ Political and Legal History archive. May 24, 2022: The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. has donated […]

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Homosexuality, an ‘inherently divisive concept’ at UVA

Featuredby Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

Thinking historically, with an archivist’s mindset, about Virginia’s direction today by: Charles Francis, Mattachine president “Inherently divisive concepts” in history and education are targeted for review and elimination in Virginia, […]

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Leontyne Price, “Turbaned goddess of my Zenith” – A conversation with author Kevin Simmonds

September 27, 2021by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

Ever since we completed research—-our archive activism— at the Leontyne Price Library at HBCU Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, we longed to read something about the great Leontyne Price […]

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Archive Activism, People and reputations

“An American apology for decades of anti-LGBTQ persecution is long overdue” – LGBTQ NATION

Featuredby Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

by: John Gallagher One of the darkest stains on American history was the persecution of LGBTQ people. Bar raids, employment purges, entrapments — the tactics used to harass and ruin […]

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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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