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Bookmark or Share- Mattachine: unmasking a ‘masked people’ - workers.orgAs the Mattachine founders met to discuss organizing, the “Lavender Scare” was becoming a sensationalized propaganda component of the McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunt. The Senate was making public its report rooting out “sexual perverts” from government employment.
- Remembering a 1966 'Sip-In' for Gay Rights - NPRToday, the bar called Julius(ph) welcomes gays and commemorated the sip-in on Thursday as part of Pride Week in New York. Dick Leitsch was then head of the New York Mattachine Society.
- The Mattachine Society Helped Lay the Groundwork for Queer ... - HornetBy providing a framework around which organizers could meet, the Mattachine Society provided a crucial opportunity to gather and lay strategy. When the time came for organizers to lay siege to queer-excluding institutions, they were able to do so because of the foundation laid by Mattachine.
- The Mattachine Society - LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide - Research ...The Mattachine Society went on to become one of several prominent groups organizing during the period of LGBTQ+ activism referred to as the Homophile Movement, with chapters opening up in a number of states. The Mattachine Society began publishing The Mattachine Review in 1955.
- Mattachine Society - WikipediaThe Mattachine Society (/ ˈ m æ t ə ʃ iː n /), founded in 1950, was an early national gay rights organization in the United States, [1] preceded by several covert and open organizations, such as Chicago's Society for Human Rights. [2]
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