Welcome to the Mattachine Society. We are a Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Trangender rights organization founded for the purposes of furthering the freedom of the Queer community in the United States. Although great progress has been made in this area, quite a bit by our namesake, The Mattachine Society (1961-1989) that arose after the famous Stonewall Riots of 1969, we believe that until the government fully recognizes the legitimacy of the GLBT lifestyle we have not gained enough. When the legislatures refuse to acknowledge gay marriage, and our national congress refuses to pass an anti-hate bill that includes discrimination based on sexual orientation then the men and women that are sworn to defend the constitution forged in the blood of oppressed men and women like ourselves are doing nothing less than officially declaring our way of life a perversion and an abnormality. So many sit idly by and watch this happen with a hope that maybe one day the Heterosexual community, in their benevolence, will allow us to have a half-breed form of marriage than have deemed a "civil union". This is not only a sign of self-loathing and an insult to those of us who today fight with such passion for the freedoms guaranteed to us under the US Constitution, but it is a disrespect to the many who have died because they were proud of who they were and would not simply conform in silence but stood up and declared "WE'RE HERE! WE'RE QUEER! GET USED TO IT!"

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