Mattachine Society News and Stories

The New York Public Library’s Archives Are a Treasure Trove of Queer History

Queer parties, protests and trans women who started the Stonewall Riots are all hiding in the New York Public Library’s massive photo archive.

The Mattachine Society Helped Lay the Groundwork for Queer Liberation

The Mattachine Society was eventually seen as too reserved, but it laid the groundwork for the entire LGBTQ rights movement

Radical Faeries Have Been Pushing Queer Boundaries for More Than 40 Years

While now it’s mostly just an aesthetic, the radical faeries started out as a counter-cultural community — and changed the world for the better

Don’t Be Dumb at Brunch: Bad Bermuda, #DecriminalizeLGBT, ‘Queer Eye’ Reboot

Today at brunch, be sure to bring up the ‘Queer Eye’ reboot, Bermuda’s baffling gaffe in repealing marriage equality and Hornet’s #DecriminalizeLGBT campaign