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MSDC Files Lawsuit Against Department of Justice to Unseal “Sexual Perversion” Eisenhower/Burger Security Papers

April 27, 2016by Jonathan Morales

Government claims a “deliberative process privilege” sixty-three years after the federal ban on LGBT employment The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, represented by pro bono legal counsel McDermott, Will & […]

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W&M Mattachine Research Project Documents Queer History: Alcohol, Student Life, and Employment Benefits in Virginia

April 8, 2016by Jonathan Morales

Student researchers in the William & Mary Mattachine Research Project presented their findings this week on Virginia LGBT history. Speaking on different topics of queer Virginia history, the students discussed […]

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Lyndon Johnson’s Pink Purge

February 26, 2016by Jonathan Morales

Newly-released documents from the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas reveal how the Johnson Administration purged two men from the White House after years of loyal service, on the […]

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Tell Congress to strip J. Edgar Hoover’s name from FBI headquarters!

November 12, 2015by Jonathan Morales

SIGN THE PETITION J. Edgar Hoover’s name–synonymous with illegal government intrusion, abuse of power, and warrantless surveillance and harassment of activists and politicians–is a stain on the FBI, and must […]

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50 years on: remembering the first LGBT picket of the White House

April 17, 2015by Jonathan Morales

How better to commemorate the first LGBT civil rights protest in front of the White House–50 years ago today–than by opening up the personal papers of John Macy, former head […]

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Homosexuals and “other sex perverts” unsuitable for Federal employment

March 30, 2015by Jonathan Morales

In the 1950 report and resolution Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government, a Senate subcommittee charges the Civil Service Commission with stepping up investigations–and dismissals–of alleged “moral perverts” employed by […]

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Persecuted by their own government

March 25, 2015by Jonathan Morales

Rick Rosendall, a member of the original Mattachine Society of Washington D.C. and founding member of the present Mattachine Society, wrote this week in the Washington Blade about the leadership […]

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The New York Times reports on Mattachine archive activism

May 25, 2014by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.

Our research on J. Edgar Hoover’s “Sex Deviate” program; and the U.S. Civil Service Commission internal memoranda (1964) on homosexuality–“something uniquely nasty”– is featured in a New York Times, May 21 […]

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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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