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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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