Watch a preview of “Lou’s Legacy: A Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade” on PBS’s website.
Category Archives: Archive Activism
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.
Drag Star Ella Fitzgerald and Lou Chibbaro’s World Premiere!
It was their day. DC drag star “Ella Fitzgerald” and veteran Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. were each honored with an official Mayoral Proclamation from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declaring […]
Is the Mattachine Society still around?!
The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC to premiere documentary film Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade. “Is the Mattachine Society still around?”, people ask incredulously when I […]
Alan Simpson: Republican from another country
by: Charles Francis 93-year-old conservative rode with us when no one else would The senator from Wyoming was authenticity itself — a Western force coming at you like a bobcat […]
Before the Supreme Court Revisits the “Cure”….The Justice’s clerks should visit the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
By Charles Francis “Welcome, Garrard!”, the creepy conversion therapy handbook greeted teen Garrard Conley when he was checked into the nation’s largest conversion therapy residential enterprise Love in Action (LIA) in Memphis. “You […]
Notoriously Disgraceful Conduct
With Executive Orders flying, now is a good time for LGBTQ Americans to refresh ourselves on the grandaddy of them all that continue to target us. This is President Eisenhower’s so-called […]
R=A (Research equals activism)
“Fucking prick! FAGGOT” We archive activists go back to the recordings to cope with the shock of the mass J6 pardons. Listen yourself to the riot video recording played at […]
Christian Nationalism: a ‘prop’ to achieving power?
The drive toward an authoritarian theocracy. By: Charles Francis “Ladies and Gentlemen, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.” I clearly remember this call from a pulpit decades ago because […]
