July 19, 2017—The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. donated two significant documents from the now-defunct and once largest “ex-gay” conversion therapy ministry “Love In Action”(LIA) to the Smithsonian’s National Museum […]

Charles Francis, president of the Mattachine Society, which conducts research and offers education programs focused on gay and lesbian policies, noted that a 1964 Mississippi State Sovereignty report targeted Smith and […]

The former leader of a religious-oriented ‘conversion therapy’ ministry called Love In Action that sought to change its clients from gay to straight has donated the ministry’s voluminous archives to […]

On June 6, AFGE Local 12, AFL-CIO will hold a screening of “Uniquely Nasty” at the Frances Perkins Building, the national office of the U.S. Department of Labor. MSWDC President […]

I am thrilled to announce that Yahoo News has won an Edward R. Murrow Award in the News Documentary category for “Uniquely Nasty,” our groundbreaking short film that shed new […]

ReDistricted, an online comics anthology focused on Washington D.C.’s history, published a feature on Frank Kameny. Read the full two-page story by clicking the strip below. Story by Bizhan Khodabandeh and James Moffitt […]

“Self-admitted homosexual” was the bureaucratic pejorative for Thomas H. Tattersall, certified insane, federal employee, resident of St. Elizabeth’s federal psychiatric hospital during the 1950s in Washington, DC. A destination for […]

There’s a fear afoot in America. LGBT people have made much progress but are still second-class citizens in many respects. Now, under Donald Trump, there appears to be an intentional […]