StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. Traditionally, primary sources are found public records, archival collections, historic publications, and source books. The primary goals of the society were to: The Mattachine Society was named by Harry Hay, inspired by a French medieval and renaissance masque group he had studied while preparing a course on the history of popular music for a workers' education project. The goal of the Mattachine society was to change people's belief about homosexuality. ... which he published in the Mattachine Society’s July 1969 newsletter. In addition, this collection includes serial literature on its "private" face, exploring the challenges and complexities of building gay and lesbian communities inside and outside of a "straight" world, the need for psychological reinforcement through support groups in an effort combat an often hostile environment, and the yearning for spiritual confirmation of one’s identity and life choices. The organization was founded by a group of young adults aged 16–28 in response to a sharp increase in heterosexist legislation in the Louisiana State Legislature.

Carefully selected for rarity from the thousands of titles in the GLBT Historical Society archives, the collection features more than 200 newsletter and periodical titles totaling nearly 8,000 issues. This product is strong in newsletters from organizations that began their work during the formative years of the gay and lesbian movement. Unrelated to the earlier iterations of the Mattachine Society, a group reorganized under the name Mattachine Society in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2005. Included are minutes, correspondence, and notes related to their work with the ACLU, the San Francisco Coalition for Human Rights, the Commission on Crime Control and Violence Protection, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

The Society for Human Rights (1924) in Chicago predated the Mattachine Society, but was shut down by the police after only a few months. When Mattachine founder Harry Hay first began to contact his friends about creating an organization for homosexuals, many of his friends told him that he was crazy.

Collection of oral history projects with focus on the Midwest. LGBTQ digital oral history is an emerging field built by dedicated activists, historians, and archivists across the web. A guide to resources and strategies for research on marginalized sexualities and gender experiences, https://libguides.wustl.edu/lgbtqiaresearch, Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Parts I and II: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis (Archives Unbound), Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis (Archives Unbound), Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters (Archives Unbound), Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas, 1941-1976 (Archives Unbound), Where we rise: LGBT oral history in the Midwest and beyond, Lavender Legacies Guide: Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable Guide to Sources in North America, Women and Gender Studies - Archival Sources, Women and Popular Culture at the Modern Graphic History Library. Katz, Jonathan. Background information and search tips for this database.

[1] As the Red Scare progressed, the association with communism concerned some members as well as supporters and Hay, a dedicated member of the communist party for 15 years, stepped down as the society's leader. Primary Source Collections.

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The Mattachine Society is one of the oldest gay rights organizations in the United States.

The Mattachine society was one of the first gay rights activists groups. The organization was founded by Harry Hay along with a small group of friends. Contains books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. Under FORMAT, select ARCHIVAL MATERIALS to limit to archive items and finding aids. Primary Sources. Stories of LGBT veterans who served from the WWII era to the present. Harry Hay is one of these brave leaders. The strength of the collection lies in the administrative and work files of the Mattachine Society, the Mattachine Review, Pan-Graphic Press, and the Central City Target Area of the San Francisco EOC. They also lobbied for the repeal of sodomy laws and other laws that are discriminatory toward gay people. Legacy. This collection of periodicals focuses on newsletters issued by gay and lesbian political and social activist organizations throughout the country and on periodicals devoted to gay and lesbian political and social activist agendas—he "public" face of gay and lesbian activism.

A primary source is an immediate account or object resulting from the topic being studied. Items with the Unlocked icon  are free, open resources that are not maintained by Washington University Libraries. The Mattachine Society's goal was to liberate the oppressed homosexual community and provide a variety of services to the gay community, including referral services for legal and other professionals, and counseling.

The term danza de matachines is also used to refer to their characteristic dance and music. An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings related to transgender history throughout the world. A variety of materials comprise this collection, including: meeting minutes, notes, press clippings, reports, mailing lists, correspondence, and memoranda. The strength of the collection lies in the administrative and work files of the Mattachine Society, the Mattachine Review, Pan-Graphic Press, and the Central City Target Area of the San Francisco EOC.

He mentioned the medieval-Renaissance French Sociétés Joyeux: This French group was named in turn after Mattaccino (or the Anglicized Mattachino), a character in Italian theater. The Lucas collection contains an abundance of material relating to the early homosexual civil rights movement (the homophile movement) and the San Francisco manifestation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Most of these organizations are now defunct and their newsletters are the only record of their history and contribution to the movement. Mattaccino was a kind of court jester, who would speak the truth to the king when nobody else would. Like the divide that occurred within the black civil rights movement, the late 1960s and the 1970s brought a new generation of activists, many of whom felt that the gay rights movement needed to endorse a larger and more radical agenda to address other forms of oppression, the Vietnam War, and the Sexual revolution. The collection includes: correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, manuscripts, financial documents, reports, statistics, legal decisions, surveys, counseling records, funding proposals, and subject files. These digitized primary sources include manuscripts,monographs, newspapers,and photographs.

The vast majority of the collection dates from 1953 to 1969. M. Because most people thought it was wrong, (even more than they do today) the leaders who started this organization had to be very brave.

(Box # 82): “To our knowledge, this was the first time that the homosexual community has stood up to Congress.” (Representative John Dowdy, D-Texas, goes after the Mattachine. In-depth interviews with more than 40 early leaders of LGBTQ+ religious movements. Our current projects include a catalog of early LGBTQ online communities, an archive of transgender-related Usenet newsgroups, and interactive maps of TGNet, one of the first international transgender-specific BBS networks. In a 1976 interview with Jonathan Ned Katz, Hay was asked the origin of the name Mattachine.

This collection documents the activist and professional activities of Donald S. Lucas. Matachines (Spanish singular matachín; sword dancers dressed in ritual attire called bouffon) are a carnavalesque dance troupe which emerged in Spain in the early 17th century inspired by similar European traditions such as the moresca.

The QDHP is an ongoing effort to document pre-2010 LGBTQ digital spaces online. It was founded in Chicago in the 1950's.In the 1950's being gay was considered wrong by most people. A primary source is an immediate account or object resulting from the topic being studied. A digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. Links and descriptions for UMSL's larger primary source collections ... dates from 1953 to 1969. History of civil rights in the United States, North American Conference of Homophile Organizations, http://www.glhalloffame.org/index.pl?item=29&todo=view_item, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, Mattachine Society, Shreveport, Louisiana, https://lgbt.wikia.org/wiki/Mattachine_Society?oldid=38142. The D.C. LGBTQ archival activist group Mattachine Society of Washington and gay historian and author Eric Cervini announced this week they are … Gay American History. Features historical records of political and social organizations, publications by and for lesbians and gays, extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis, personal correspondence and interviews with numerous LGBTQ individuals. The Mattachine Society was the earliest lasting homophile organization in the United States. Assist our people who are victimized daily as a result of our oppression. Although acquiring a sizable following for a period of time, the Shreveport Mattachine fell into disorganization and was disbanded in August 2006 by its president and founder, Jesse Smith. Thesis: Although many people think that gay rights are a new issuse, this issue has actually been around for a long time, and the Mattachine society proves this. It includes printed matter, posters, oral histories, and archival video.

Traditionally, primary sources are found public records, archival collections, historic publications, and source books. During the 1960s, the various unaffiliated Mattachine Societies, especially the Mattachine Society in San Francisco and the Mattachine Society of New York, were among the foremost gay rights groups in the United States, but beginning in the middle 1960s and, especially, following the Stonewall riots of 1969, they began increasingly to be seen as stodgy and traditional and not willing enough to be confrontational.