Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York Records 1951-1976

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Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York Records 1951-1976

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1911

The records include correspondence of the principal officers including Elver Barker, Robert Burdick, Curtis Dewees, Julian Hodges, Michael Kotis, and Richard Leitsch and collateral papers including minutes, memoranda, reports, scripts, photographs, and printed ephemera. The records reflect the origin and development of the homophile movement in America especially in New York and of the struggle to achive through peaceful means the the social integration of gays and the removal of legal sanctions discriminating against gays in housing, employment and assembly.

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6312193

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Mattachine Society of New York

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The Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York was founded in New York City in 1955 for the purpose of educating the public in all aspects of homosexuality, for assisting individual gays in coping with problems related to their homosexuality, and for obtaining full civil and social rights for homosexuals. The MSNY was one of several offshoots of the Mattachine Society founded in Los Angeles in 1951. During the 1960s, its most active period, it was a leader in the struggle to p...

Barker, Elver

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Dewees, Curtis

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Leitsch, Dick

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Hodges, Julian

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Kotis, Michael

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Burdick, Robert, 1965-

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