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.
Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Philip Kennicott on the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.’s amicus brief in the same-sex marriage cases at the Supreme Court today: “an insider’s look at […]
Listen to Charles Francis, President of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., talk with activist Mike Rogers on The Michelangelo Signorile Show about how MSDC is at the center of […]
How better to commemorate the first LGBT civil rights protest in front of the White House–50 years ago today–than by opening up the personal papers of John Macy, former head […]
Rick Rosendall, a member of the original Mattachine Society of Washington D.C. and founding member of the present Mattachine Society, wrote this week in the Washington Blade about the leadership […]
A “culture of animus” is brought to chilling life in our amicus brief to the Supreme Court, written by a fantastic team of attorneys at the international law firm McDermott […]
Our research on J. Edgar Hoover’s “Sex Deviate” program; and the U.S. Civil Service Commission internal memoranda (1964) on homosexuality–“something uniquely nasty”– is featured in a New York Times, May 21 […]
On Friday, October 2, at 7 p.m., the National Archives presents a special documentary screening of “Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government’s War on Gays.” Using records found in the National […]
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