[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Mattachine Review. Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1960

A$50 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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San Francisco : Mattachine Society, 1960. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly creased and marked), pp. 28, a very good copy of this scarce and important periodical from one of the first gay rights groups in the United States. This issue includes article Homosexuality among the American Indians and other native peoples of the world by Omer C. Stewart Ph. D. with reference to homosexuality amongst indigenous people in North America, Siberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Congo, and with passing mention of bedachism in Polynesia, New Guinea and Australia. The Mattachine Society (initially called the Mattachine Foundation) began as a secret organization in Los Angeles in 1950, with their first Statement of Purpose drawn up in 1951. The group was founded by Communist organizer Harry Hay and other leftists including Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, Dale Jennings, Konrad Stevens, James Gruber and Rudi Gernreich (Jewish Refugee). The Mattachine founders borrowed the initial structure of the organization from the Communist Party, and the leadership, the fifth order was anonymous, so members didn t even know their names. The Mattachine Society went on to become one of several prominent groups organizing during the period of LGBTQ+ activism referred to as the Homophile Movement, with chapters opening up in a number of states. The Mattachine Society began publishing The Mattachine Review in 1955. Regional organizations also published their own periodicals and newsletters. Around 1957, the National Mattach

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