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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.

Mattachine and “The Deviant’s War”

May 20, 2020by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

“Fighting Back” video featuring Dr. Eric Cervini Released by Mattachine (May 20, 2020) Dr. Eric Cervini and his forthcoming history of the early gay rights movement “The Deviant’s War, the […]

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The Chibbaro Files

March 10, 2020by Charles Francis

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 […]

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Lilli Vincenz: Lesbian Pioneer

June 21, 2019by Charles Francis

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About the Mattachine Society

The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. conducts archive activism–identifying, conserving and interpreting the LGBT historical record.

MSDC is organized and approved for charitable and educational purposes as a 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, and is incorporated as a non-profit corporation in the District of Columbia.

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