The Chibbaro Files
Veteran Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. donates the “Chibbaro Files” to George Washington University Library Special Collections Research Center The “Chibbaro Files” gift facilitated and financially supported by The […]
Category Archives: Documents
Lyndon Johnson’s Pink Purge
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 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 […]
50 years on: remembering the first LGBT picket of the White House
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 […]
Sister Souljah and DOMA
President Clinton’s liaison to the gay and lesbian community Marsha Scott warns, in this Memorandum, Vice President Gore about the “growing fear… that we are doing a ‘Sister Souljah’ and […]
Homosexuals and “other sex perverts” unsuitable for Federal employment
In the 1950 report and resolution Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government, a Senate subcommittee charges the Civil Service Commission with stepping up investigations–and dismissals–of alleged “moral perverts” employed by […]
Petition Denied. Revolution Begun.
When does a petition denied become a revolution? The answer is history’s judgment. Gay civil rights pioneer Frank Kameny, in 1961, was denied his day before the Supreme Court, and […]
Message in a bottle from a terrible time: Gary Bauer to Ronald Reagan, no homosexuals on the AIDS Commission
We discovered this gem of animus earlier this year at the Reagan Presidential Library: “I have opposed the notion that we should seek out a homosexual to be on your […]
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