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.
We are living through a time of reckoning, a time of acknowledgment and apology for mistakes long forgotten and erased. For The American Psychiatric Association (APA) this process began long […]
Do you want to remember or forget? A Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. and McDermott Will & Emery white paper calls for the U.S. Government to acknowledge and apologize for […]
The glass slides were so heavy, each nearly 4” square, designed for projection in an old “magic lantern” device at the nation’s first federal mental institution St. Elizabeths Hospital for […]
Vergangenheitsbewaltigung! Leave it to the German language’s ridiculously long compounds to provide a single word for the mission of the Mattachine Society of Washington: “Vergangenheitsbewaltigung.” The eight syllables mean “the […]
We “archive activists” discovered this animus-drenched memo at the National Archives in a box marked U.S. Civil Service Commission/ “Suitability”. Homosexuals were declared “Unsuitable” for government employment, the reason? “What […]
“Gay is Good” Salute to Dr. Eric Cervini! The Frank Kameny history, “The Deviant’s War” by Dr. Eric Cervini was honored this week with The Publishing Triangle’s award for best gay non-fiction. […]
For those of us who lived through the screaming silence of the Reagans during the AIDS crisis, especially so if you are gay, “Washington Post” columnist Karen Tumulty’s “Triumph of […]
