Tradition
Mattachine Society
Overview
The Mattachine Society (), founded in 1950, was an early national gay rights organization in the United States, preceded by several covert and open organizations, such as Chicago's Society for Human Rights. Communist and labor activist Harry Hay formed the group with a collection of male friends in Los Angeles to protect and improve the rights of gay men. Branches formed in other cities, and by 1961 the Society had splintered into regional groups.
At the beginning of gay rights protests, news on Cuban prison work camps for homosexuals inspired Mattachine Society to organize protests at the United Nations and the White House in 1965.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
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Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
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While the first step of organization consisted in excluding parents and children from mutual sexual intercourse, the second was the erection of a barrier between brother and sister. This progress was much more important on account of the greater equality in the ages of the parties concerned, but also far more difficult.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Mattachine Society; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Los Angeles
- Library of Congress
- Stonewall riots
- United Nations
- Vietnam War
- United States
- Civil and political rights
- Johns Hopkins University
- Communist Party USA
- Civil rights movement
- Cuba
- Chicago
- Arabic
- Communism
- Harry Hay
Place in the tradition
Part of Socialism.