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.
Unless you read the LGBT newspaper The Advocate or lurk about the State Department website, you may have missed it — but John F. Kerry accomplished something unprecedented on Jan. […]
Charles Francis sets three books down on the table. “These are the last three biographies of President Eisenhower,” he says. “Not one of them mentions Executive Order 10450.” That 1953 […]
When we talk about advances in civil and gay rights, we often talk in terms of famous firsts: Los Angeles’ first Black Mayor Tom Bradley or the state’s first openly […]
Government claims a “deliberative process privilege” sixty-three years after the federal ban on LGBT employment The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, represented by pro bono legal counsel McDermott, Will & […]
Student researchers in the William & Mary Mattachine Research Project presented their findings this week on Virginia LGBT history. Speaking on different topics of queer Virginia history, the students discussed […]
Newly-released documents from the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas reveal how the Johnson Administration purged two men from the White House after years of loyal service, on the […]
The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. has been honored to research the “deleted” gay past at the Leontyne Price Library archive at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Price’s mother […]
The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. is proud to announce the launch of the Mattachine Research Project, in collaboration with the College of William and Mary. Students from the College […]
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