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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.

NPR: ‘Uniquely Nasty’ Remembers The U.S. Ban On Gay Federal Workers

September 30, 2015by Charles Francis

NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Michael Isikoff and Charles Francis about their documentary Uniquely Nasty, which explores the government’s campaign against gay workers starting in the 1950s. Listen >

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“Sounds of Silence”—The Reagan Administration and the AIDS crisis

May 22, 2015by Jonathan Morales

Why did Ronald Reagan wait seven long, painful years before addressing the AIDS crisis? He became president in 1981, roughly the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but did not mention […]

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Untold Stories: Recovering the Histories of LGBT Civil Servants

May 4, 2015by Jonathan Morales

In this feature by McDermott Will & Emery, MSDC President Charles Francis and Partners Lisa Linsky and Paul Thompson talk about the collaborative effort that has uncovered documents detailing the U.S. […]

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“The preferred terms were ‘pervert’ and ‘deviate’…”

April 28, 2015by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

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 […]

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“History must never be erased”

April 22, 2015by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

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 […]

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50 years on: remembering the first LGBT picket of the White House

April 17, 2015by Jonathan Morales

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 […]

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Persecuted by their own government

March 25, 2015by Jonathan Morales

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 […]

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A Culture of Animus

March 10, 2015by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

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 […]

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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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