ACKNOWLEDGMENT & APOLOGY: The Time Has Come
Why do LGBT Americans need it? Aren’t the tens of thousands of federal investigations, firings and discharges of suspected homosexuals a thing of the past? Why must Congress say […]
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America’s Promise of Reconciliation and Redemption: The Need for an Official Acknowledgment and Apology for the Historic Government Assault on LGBT Federal Employees and Military Personnel
Do you want to remember or forget? A Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. and McDermott Will & Emery white paper calls for the U.S. Government to acknowledge and apologize for […]
The St. Elizabeths “Magic Lantern” Slides: “Guilt/Guilt/Guilt”
The glass slides were so heavy, each nearly 4” square, designed for projection in an old “magic lantern” device at the nation’s first federal mental institution St. Elizabeths Hospital for […]
LGBTQ People Suffered Traumatic Treatments at St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Mentally Ill
A “Uniquely Nasty” Memo from Our Past
We “archive activists” discovered this animus-drenched memo at the National Archives in a box marked U.S. Civil Service Commission/ “Suitability”. Homosexuals were declared “Unsuitable” for government employment, the reason? “What […]
A Nancy Reagan Parallel Bubble Universe
For those of us who lived through the screaming silence of the Reagans during the AIDS crisis, especially so if you are gay, “Washington Post” columnist Karen Tumulty’s “Triumph of […]
“Midnight Cowboy”: An Archive Rated “X”
An Interview with Glenn Frankel, author of “Shooting Midnight Cowboy” “Midnight Cowboy” stars Jon Voight (Joe Buck) and Dustin Hoffman (Ratso Rizzo) agreed with each other to do a […]
“The Chibbaro Files”
Veteran “Washington Blade” Reporter Lou Chibbaro Completes Donation of “The Chibbaro Files” to George Washington University Special Collections Library. “The Chibbaro Files” gift facilitated and financially supported by Mattachine. January […]
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