Beyond Boy Erased: The Resilience of Conversion Therapy
This month Boy Erased — a film starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Lucas Hedges, Joel Edgerton, Troye Sivan, and Cherry Jones, and based on the memoir by Garrard Conley — […]
UnErased: Mattachine Teams with Radio Lab Producer for Conversion Therapy Podcast
The filmmakers behind Boy Erased have joined forces with the creators of Radiolab for a podcast on conversion therapy, The Advocate has learned through an exclusive press release. The four-part series, called UnErased, will tell the history of the “pray […]
Break Glass: Facilitating Conversations to End Hate – Featuring MSDC Advisory Board Member V.L. Cox
The Virginia Holocaust Museum will feature the poignant and timely work of V.L. Cox with its upcoming exhibition, Break Glass: The Art of V.L. Cox – A Conversation to End […]
Mattachine vs. Conversion Therapy
“This was truly a Trump power-panel of evangelical policy hawks—even at a museum dedicated to the Bible,” Charles Francis, president of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., an LGBT history […]
LGBTQ “Insane” at St. Elizabeths
St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane was supposed to help straighten Thomas H. Tattersall out, but by all appearances, it put him through a world of pain. Tattersall was admitted […]
McDermott and Mattachine
MSDC and Vincenz Featured in Philadelphia
William Way LGBT Community Center announces two exhibits featuring the history of LGBTQ rights in the United States Philadelphia, PA, June 14, 2018 — Following the success of its national […]
I was 19, gay and ready to be ‘cured’ by conversion therapy
Here’s what Garrard Conley had to surrender the morning he arrived at the Love in Action facility in Memphis, Tennessee in 2004: his phone, his wallet, his driving licence and […]
