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 […]
Category Archives: Research
Our research is conducted by professional researchers and one of the largest law firms in the United States, using public sources including Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and appeals to ensure that LGBT-related documents are surfaced. We began by researching J. Edgar Hoover’s “Sex Deviate” program. The LGBT document category has been “invisible” prior to the gay rights movement. We know the names. We work with the curators. We want to see what actually happened, a kind of “truth and reconciliation” program for our time and our community.
A Reckoning with Psychiatry’s Past: The American Psychiatric Association Steps Forward
We are living through a time of reckoning, a time of acknowledgment and apology for catastrophic mistakes forgotten and erased. For The American Psychiatric Association (APA) this process began long […]
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 […]
Eric Cervini’s “The Deviant’s War” wins The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-fiction
“Gay is Good” Salute to Dr. Eric Cervini! The Frank Kameny history, “The Deviant’s War” author Eric Cervini was honored as a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for history! How proud we “archive […]
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 […]
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