• The Mattachine Society (/ˈmætəʃiːn/), founded in 1950, was an early national gay rights organization in the United States, preceded by several covert and...
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  • The Mattachine Society of Washington (MSW) was a gay rights organisation founded in August 1961 by Frank Kameny and Jack Nichols. While the organisation...
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  • The Mattachine Family is an American comedy-drama film directed by Andy Vallentine and released in 2023. The film stars Nico Tortorella and Juan Pablo...
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  • needed] The Mattachine Society is considered the earliest gay rights organization in North America, founded after the establishment of the Mattachine Foundation...
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    Harry Hay (category Mattachine Society)
    rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. He cofounded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well...
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    and gay rights activist, had co-founded the Mattachine Society in Washington D.C.in 1961. While the society did not take much political activism to the...
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  • fear of being arrested. Los Angeles area homosexuals created the Mattachine Society in 1950, in the home of communist activist Harry Hay. Their objectives...
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    the movement "The Mattachine Society". It began in 1940 when a man named Harry Hay idealized the term homophile. "The Mattachine Society" originated the...
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    also integral to setting up the Mattachine Society of Washington (MSW) in 1960. Distinct from the other Mattachine Societies established in California and...
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    Frank Kameny (category Mattachine Society)
    organization, Mattachine Society. In the year following the group's founding, Kameny led an initiative to declare the existence of the Mattachine Society of Washington...
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  • women's rights in Germany. Founded in 1950 by Harry Hay the Mattachine Society (also called Mattachine Foundation) was one of the first LGBT rights groups in...
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    Lake, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, dedicated to the Mattachine Society in 2012 in memory of Harry Hay, who cofounded the gay rights group...
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    Homophile Movement, was centered around the male Mattachine Society, formed in 1950. Although the Mattachine Society began as a provocative organization with...
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  • his involvement in the founding of gay organisations, including the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States which in...
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  • rights activist. He co-founded the Washington, D.C., branch of the Mattachine Society in 1961 with Franklin E. Kameny. He appeared in the 1967 CBS documentary...
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  • active in the homophile and gay liberation movements, working with the Mattachine Society of New York as well as the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries...
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    lesbian group Daughters of Bilitis, and the gay men's group Mattachine Society. Mattachine members were also involved in demonstrations in support of homosexuals...
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  • Dale Jennings (activist) (category Mattachine Society)
    national attention to the Mattachine Society and membership increased drastically owing to the decision of the Mattachine Society to help contest the charges...
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  • such Eastern groups as the Mattachine Society of New York, the Mattachine Society of Washington, Philadelphia's Janus Society, and the New York chapter...
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    replacement as president of Mattachine NY by Michael Kotis in April 1970, opposition to the march by The Mattachine Society ended. There was little open...
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    Rudi Gernreich (category Mattachine Society)
    founding member of and financially supported the early activities of the Mattachine Society. He consciously pushed the boundaries of acceptable fashion and used...
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    Dick Leitsch (category Mattachine Society)
    American LGBT rights activist. He was president of gay rights group the Mattachine Society in the 1960s. He conceptualized and led the "Sip-In" at Julius' Bar...
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    director was painting his friend's toenails. Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, said Hoover and Tolson...
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    other men founded the Mattachine Society, the first enduring LGBTQ+ rights organization in the United States. The Mattachine Society was involved in two...
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  • convenience with a gay man. Both are members of the homophile group the Mattachine Society. Wes Ramsey as Max, a bartender at the Playboy Club. David Krumholtz...
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  • arrests and led to the creation of Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights organization modeled after the Mattachine Society. September 19 – A small group pickets...
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  • then goes to a meeting of the Mattachine Society, who work to advance gay rights through conforming to mainstream society and working within the system...
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    organizations was the Mattachine Society. A secretive society which later began to be associated with Communist values, the society became involved in politics...
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    include the regional chapters of Daughters of Bilitis, Janus Society, and Mattachine Society. 1963 – Israel de facto decriminalizes sodomy and sexual acts...
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  • protests. The Janus Society grew out of lesbian and gay activists meeting regularly, beginning in 1961, in hopes of forming a Mattachine Society chapter. The...
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