Freedom Summer, Opera, and Gay Liberation
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 […]
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.
MSDC Announces the William and Mary Mattachine Research Project
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 […]
Tell Congress to strip J. Edgar Hoover’s name from FBI headquarters!
SIGN THE PETITION J. Edgar Hoover’s name–synonymous with illegal government intrusion, abuse of power, and warrantless surveillance and harassment of activists and politicians–is a stain on the FBI, and must […]
MSDC joins Sen. Baldwin, Lester Hunt Jr. calling for investigation of McCarthy era, anti-gay cold case
The Justice Department is facing new calls to investigate the Cold War-era, anti-gay blackmail plot that led to the suicide of Senator Lester Hunt. The Wyoming Senator’s son, Lester Hunt, […]
NPR: ‘Uniquely Nasty’ Remembers The U.S. Ban On Gay Federal Workers
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 >
“Sounds of Silence”—The Reagan Administration and the AIDS crisis
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 […]
Untold Stories: Recovering the Histories of LGBT Civil Servants
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. […]
“The preferred terms were ‘pervert’ and ‘deviate’…”
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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