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	Mattachine Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mattachine Society of New York, Inc. was the earliest homophile organization in the United States.
		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 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mattachine_Society (897 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Mattachine Society
		The Mattachine Society also began sponsoring discussion groups in 1951, providing lesbians and gay men an opportunity to share openly, often for the first time, their feelings and experiences.
		Mattachine failed to adapt to the increased militancy of gay men and lesbians after the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969 and faded away.
		Activist Harry Hay, an original member of both the Mattachine Society and the Radical Faeries, is recognized as one of the principal founders of the gay liberation movement in the United States.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/mattachine_society.html (1361 words)

	Mattachine Society biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The primary goal of the society was to encourage the public to view homosexuals as a persecuted minority rather than mental deviants.
		All of the Mattachine founders were affiliated with Communism and based the organization on the cell structure of the American Communist Party.
		During the 1960s, Mattachine was one of the foremost gay rights groups in the United States.
	mattachine-society.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (314 words)

	1952: Mattachine battles police harassment
		By the autumn of 1951, the seven founders of the Mattachine society were organizationally confronted by the growth of their discussion groups.
		The first public action the Mattachine leadership took was to weigh in on the side of the Chicano community against racist police repression.
		Mattachine members distributed the leaflets at Santa Monica beaches and Los Angeles bars, in parks and at bus stops in areas frequented by LGBT people, and in public bathrooms where gay men were known to gather.
	www.workers.org /2005/us/lavender-red-43 (1371 words)

	Knitting Circle Mattachine Society (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At first the structure of the society followed that of freemasonry with a pyramid structure, where cells at the same level would be unknown to each other.
		Mattachine failed to adapt to the radical militantism after the Stonewall Rebellion and faded away.
		A fl and white photograph of the inside of Mattachine Society Headquarters is reproduced in Weinberg and Williams, (1974), (photograph 6).
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /mattachine.html (511 words)

	Friday, June 8, 2001
		Their premise was that society, through custom and the force of law, forced people who were attracted to and fell in love with members of their own gender to hide their true identies.
		However, two of the leaders of the "moderate" faction that took over and reorganized the Mattachine Society in 1953 were Marilyn Reiger (President of the Oakland chapter of Mattachine), and Pearl Hart (founder of the Chicago chapter and its President for nearly ten years).
		Leitsch then announced to everyone in the bar that the Mattachine Society and the ACLU were going to sue the bar for denying the constitutional right to assemble.
	village.fortunecity.com /montgomery/459/f010608.html (1663 words)

	Out Of The Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Society's charter stated that homosexuals constituted "one of the largest minorities in America today," and were a group "victimized daily as a result of our oppression." According to Hay, the name Mattachine derived from a medieval French society of unmarried townsmen who performed during the Feast of Fools wearing masks.
		In the context of the anti-Communist crusade of Senator Joseph McCarthy, moderate Mattachine members became suspicious of the organization's radical founders, and, by 1955, had gained control of the organization.
		By the 1960s, working with the women's organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, Mattachine Society chapters all over the country had begun a steady push for greater rights for homosexuals.
	www.pbs.org /outofthepast/past/p4/1950_1.html (277 words)

	Todd Coulter
		After its inception in Los Angeles in 1950, The Mattachine Society from the French Société Mattachine, was embraced in Denver.
		The periphery of society serves as the gay community’s succor and scourge.
		The Mattachine Society cited the traveling theatre troupe as a subversive group who brought society’s hidden masks to light through the use of theatre.
	www.athe.org /FG/lgt/ToddCoulter.htm (989 words)

	Mattachine Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Mattachine Foundation was organized in Los Angeles in 1950 by Harry Hay and seven other gay men.
		The group was named after the Mattachines, a medieval troupe of men who went from village to village advocating social justice.
		In 1953, the organization changed it's name to the "Mattachine Society", and its membership and momentum began to decline.
	members.aol.com /matrixwerx/glbthistory/mattachine.htm (372 words)

	Student Paper: Michael LaRegina: The Struggle for Gay Rights in America
		So, just as the Mattachine was viewed by many as the NAACP of gays, the GAA became the gay version of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.8 Since it was a group that considered itself an oppressed minority, the GAA was a political pressure group.
		It is interesting to note that the founders of the Mattachine viewed homosexual oppression in Marxist terms: they saw their oppression stemming not only from bias, but from connections inherently rooted in the very structure of society.19 The revolutionary gay movement is in many ways reflective of this aspect of Marxist thought.
		He writes of society and their views and perceptions of homosexuals, the reasons why homosexuality came to be regarded as criminal behavior, the laws established against homosexuals, and why he considers these anti-homosexual laws to be unjust.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/laregina-gayrights.html (2285 words)

	Mattachine victory sparks internal debate
		The successful defense of a Mattachine founder against criminal charges stemming from police entrapment in the summer of 1952 was a heady victory, expanding the membership at a geometric rate.
		The foundation could also ease the fears of the mass membership in Mattachine about who the leaders of the organization were and who was organizing the discussion groups at a historical moment when such doubts always fanned the flames of anti-communism.
		Mattachine leaders arranged a sit-down with Dr. Alfred Kinsey in 1953 while he was in Los Angeles on his travels.
	www.workers.org /2005/us/lavender-red-46 (992 words)

	Gay and Lesbian Rights Movements
		The Chicago chapter of the Mattachine Society engaged in few overtly political activities and functioned primarily as a social group.
		The new Mattachine Midwest monitored police harassment of gay bars, published a politically conscious newsletter, and by 1968 succeeded in securing ACLU support in defending gay men arrested by the police.
		Inspired by the Stonewall riots in New York, Henry Weimhoff, a former University of Chicago student, spearheaded the organization of the University of Chicago Gay Liberation Front.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/508.html (578 words)

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		The Mattachine's charter stated that homosexuals constituted "one of the largest minorities in America today," and were a group "victimized daily as a result of our oppression." According to Hay, the name Mattachine derived from a medieval French society of unmarried townsmen who performed during the Feast of Fools wearing masks.
		In the context of the anti-Communist crusade of Senator Joseph McCarthy, moderate Mattachine members became suspicious of the organization's radical founders, and, by 1955, had gained control of the society.
		A "homophile" organization like the Mattachine Society, the DOB challenged the idea that lesbians and gay men were sick, and argued instead that homosexuals were an oppressed minority.
	www.pbs.org /outofthepast/past/p4/p4txt (1053 words)

	Movie Poop Shoot - Off the Radar
		In the Middle Ages, The Mattachines were troupes of men who traveled from village to village, taking up the cause of social justice in their ballads and dramas.
		The Mattachine Society thought that if gays and lesbians were able to find each other and talk about their experiences they would have a simple, yet powerful mechanism for building community.
		The Mattachine Society ousted Hay in 1953 when the other members wanted the organization to be more democratic and Hay insisted on maintaining dicatatorial control.
	www.moviepoopshoot.com /off/7.html (994 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Gay Today: Jack Nichols
		The first American gay activist group to adopt a policy stating unequivocally that homosexuality is not a disease was The Mattachine Society of Washington, an independent organization founded in 1961 in the nation’s capital.
		The Mattachine Society of Washington takes the position that in the absence of valid evidence to the contrary homosexuality is not a sickness, disturbance or other pathology in any sense but is merely a preference, orientation or propensity on par with, and not different in kind from, heterosexuality.
		Crafted by Franklin Kameny and the Mattachine Society of Washington’s board, this statement effectively opened the door to the adoption of similar policies by gay and lesbian groups nationwide.
	www.gvny.com /columns/nichols/nichols03-09-01.html (1194 words)

	House Group Continues Homosexuality Hearing
		A congressional hearing on a bill to curb the activities of the Mattachine Society continued yesterday amid a series of digressions that ranged far afield of the legal implications of the proposed law.
		Dowdy is author of the bill that would strip the Society of its permit to solicit contributions and would require the District Commissioners to deny similar permits to any group not deemed beneficial to "the health, welfare and morals" of the city.
		At another point, Kameny said the Society hoped to influence public opinion into changing the law so that homosexual acts committed in private between consenting adults would not be regarded as criminal conduct.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/dc/dcnews03.htm (822 words)

	HARRY HAY Radical Faerie Written
		"I first thought of the idea of The Mattachine Society in 1948 and I had to wait until 1950 to find one person, one recruit who would stand with me against the heterosexual outside, so great was the terror because we were surrounded by stool pigeons.
		It was the kind of thing where you couldn't wait to go to another meeting to discover what we all had in common, things that we never guessed in a million years we'd ever share with anybody else.
		Harry Hay and his "left of center" founders were ousted from their own organization by "opportunists" who wanted to assimilate the Mattachine Society.
	www.pflagdetroit.org /HarryHay.htm (1138 words)

	Gay Rights Movement: Series I: Mattachine Society
		During the 1950’s other Mattachine societies were established in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, and the District of Columbia.
		The records of the Mattachine, Inc. of New York form part of the collection of records of the International Gay Information Center, Inc. which were donated to the Library in April of 1988 by Mr.
		Included is correspondence with the Boston, Chicago, and Denver Area Councils of Mattachine, Midwest Mattachine, the Mattachine Society of Philadelphia, the Mattachine Society, Inc. (San Francisco), the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., the Atheneum Society of America (Miami), and the Janus Society (Philadelphia).
	microformguides.gale.com /Data/Introductions/20230FM.htm (1228 words)

	The Real (Radical) Harry Hay, by Michael Bronski
		After the Mattachine Society gained notoriety in the early 1950s, Hay was unceremoniously kicked out of the Communist Party.
		Hay took the name Mattachine from a secret medieval French society of unmarried men who wore masks during their rituals as forms of social protest.
		The spiritual core of the Radical Faeries was the same as the one Hay had envisioned for his original Mattachine Society: the conviction that gay men were spiritually different from other people.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Dec2002/bronski1202.htm (2172 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Hay, Harry
		The modern Mattachine Society had its genesis at a November 1950 meeting of five men--Hay, his lover fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, Robert Hull, who was a student in Hay's classes, and two of Hull's friends, Charles Rowland and Dale Jennings.
		Hay oversaw the development of the society, taking as his model the Freemasons of the eighteenth century, an underground fraternal organization.
		The Mattachines attempted to operate by unanimous consensus, which, given the strong personalities involved, including the sometimes volatile Hay, caused occasional difficulties.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/hay_h,2.html (793 words)

	Harry Hay - gay activist - Interview - Cover Story Progressive, The - Find Articles
		It took its name from a dance, les Mattachines, that groups of unmarried men performed in France during the Renaissance.
		But the membership of the Mattachine Society grew too conservative for its founders.
		The founders all resigned, Mattachines' grassroots base declined, and Hay retreated from most gay activism until the rise of a more radical lesbian and gay movement in the early 1970s.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n9_v62/ai_21132617 (959 words)

	Harry and the Mattachine Society (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Over the course of the next two years, the Mattachine Society worked to organize and increase regional chapters throughout most of Southern California, but it was not until the arrest of member Dale Jennings on police entrapment charges that the Mattachine Society took on its first political battle.
		This victory was not reported in the papers, but the Mattachine Society took it upon themselves to publicize the vent through flyers distributed throughout Los Angeles to areas where homosexuals met.
		The Mattachine Society grew into a national movement, and in conjunction with a lesbian organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, became the above ground civil rights organizations for gays and lesbians until the Stonewall riot in 1969.
	www.harryhay.com.cob-web.org:8888 /AH_matt.html (581 words)

	IDSnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Mattachine Society, founded in 1948 in California by ex-Communist Harry Hay, began with a radical vision, but by the early 1950s Hay had been expelled and Mattachine turned rightward.
		For me, one powerfully symbolic moment was an appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee by admitted heterosexual Tom Hayden, then associated with Students for a Democratic Society: instead of abasing himself before the abusive patriarchs of the HUAC, Hayden attacked the legitimacy of the committee itself, refusing to acknowledge its authority.
		Many of the people who flocked to GLF meetings in New York City, or who founded such groups elsewhere in the country, had little interest in larger radical politics, but such ideas had moved closer to most Americans' angle of vision than they were a few years earlier.
	www.idsnews.com /news/story.php?id=5040 (820 words)

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		The Mattachine Society was founded in Los Angeles in 1950 by a small group of Gay men who had communist and/or radical ties.
		In 1951, Mattachine began sponsoring discussion groups among Gay men to raise awareness of their plight; these discussion groups spread across the county and new chapters were permanently established in Denver, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and other cities across the country.
		The goal of Mattachine was to fight discrimination and to support and build a positive homosexual community.
	special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/scrbt018.xml (347 words)

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