The Long War Against a Gay ‘Cure’
“The Long War Against a Gay ‘Cure’” by James Kirchick in the New York Review of Books: For most of human history, homosexuality has been condemned on three grounds: that […]
AP: Elections, films help effort to ban gay conversion therapy
NEW YORK (AP) — Activists urging more states to ban gay conversion therapy for minors are expecting major gains in 2019, thanks to midterm election results and the buzz generated […]
The ugly history of LGBT discrimination
“The theme of the Trump Administration with regard to LGBT people is erasure. And in this time of erasure, it is vital that gay, lesbian, and trans Americans understand their […]
StopConversionTherapy.org
Visit the Mattachine Society of DC’s new website, StopConversionTherapy.org.
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 — […]
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 […]
