Kameny wrote that homosexuals were no different from heterosexuals, often aiming his efforts at mental health professionals, some of whom attended Mattachine and DOB meetings telling members they were abnormal.

To many older gays and many members of the Mattachine Society that had worked throughout the 1960s to promote homosexuals as no different from heterosexuals, the display of violence and effeminate behavior was embarrassing.

Also in the 1960s, the Mattachine Society of New York was associated with other groups ( including the Mattachine Society of Washington ) in ECHO ( East Coast Homophile Organizations ) and, from 1966 ( along with Mattachine Midwest ), in NACHO ( North American Conference of Homophile Organizations ).

In particular, Hal Call and others out of San Francisco along with Ken Burns from Los Angeles wanted Mattachine to amend its constitution to clarify its opposition to so-called " subversive elements " and to affirm that members were loyal to the United States and its laws ( which declared homosexuality illegal ).

* Documents from the Mattachine Society's archives

The decidedly clandestine Mattachine Society, founded by Harry Hay and other veterans of the Wallace for President campaign in Los Angeles in 1950, moved into the public eye after Hal Call took over the group in San Francisco in 1953, with many gays emerging from the closet.

A longtime member of the Communist Party USA, Hay's Marxist history led to his resignation from the Mattachine leadership in 1953.

Although the Mattachine Society began as a provocative organization with roots in its founders ' communist activism, leadership of the Mattachine thought it more prudent and productive to convince heterosexual society at large that gays were not different from themselves, rather than agitate for change.

To assist homosexuals with legal problems, in 1951 labor activist Harry Hay started the Mattachine Society, from his living room in Los Angeles.

The idea for a publication dedicated to homosexuals emerged from a Mattachine Society discussion meeting held on October 15, 1952.

ONE ’ s collection of periodicals comprises nearly 7, 000 different titles, from rare issues of the earliest American queer publications, such as the lesbian newsletter Vice Versa ( magazine ) from the 1940s, and complete runs of ONE Magazine and the Mattachine Review from the early 1950s, to the most recent GLBT titles.

Facing enormous opposition to its radical approach, in 1953 the Mattachine shifted their focus to assimilation and respectability.

Although the eight women who created the DOB initially came together to be able to have a safe place to dance, as the DOB grew they developed similar goals to the Mattachine, and urged their members to assimilate into general society.

Although the Mattachine Society had existed since the 1950s, many of their methods now seemed too mild for people who had witnessed or been inspired by the riots.

Previous organizations such as the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and various homophile groups had masked their purpose by deliberately choosing obscure names.

The Mattachine Society used so-called harlequin diamonds as their emblem.

The Daughters of Bilitis was the counterpart lesbian organization to the Mattachine Society, and the two organizations worked together on some campaigns, although their approaches to visibility in the mass media differed considerably.

The group changed its name to " Mattachine Society " in April 1951, a name chosen by Hay at the suggestion of fellow Mattachine member James Gruber, based on Medieval French secret societies of masked men who, through their anonymity, were empowered to criticize ruling monarchs with impunity.

The DOB also gave awards to men who were allied with them, whom they called " Sons of Bilitis ", or SOBs, including their lawyer, photographer, and members of the Mattachine Society who assisted them with the convention.

ONE and Mattachine in turn provided vital help to the Daughters of Bilitis in the launching of their newsletter The Ladder in 1956.

Leitsch, then, announced to the press that three members of Mattachine New York would turn up at a restaurant on the lower east side, announce their homosexuality and upon refusal of service make a complaint to the SLA.

The Mattachine Society newsletter a month later offered its explanation of why the riots occurred: " It catered largely to a group of people who are not welcome in, or cannot afford, other places of homosexual social gathering ....

The sign in the window reads: " We homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peaceful and quiet conduct on the streets of the Village — Mattachine ".

Finally on November 11, 1950, Hay, along with Gernreich and friends Dale Jennings and lovers Bob Hull and Chuck Rowland, held the first meeting of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles, under the name " Society of Fools ".

Hay and the Mattachine Society were among the first to argue that gay people were not just individuals but in fact represented a " cultural minority ".

" The constitution of the 5, 000 is recognized as his political masterpiece ; his attempt to bring about a similar shift towards moderatism in 404 led directly to his death.

Regarded as a classicist and a traditionalist despite a later shift to modern tastes, Teague is recognized as a critical figure in the spread of mid-century modernism in America.

This was the first time photography was officially recognized as an art form worthy of a museum collection, and it signaled a definite shift in many photographers ' thinking.

While both film manufacturers recognized this fundamental change, it can be said that Fuji Photo had adopted to this shift much more successfully that Eastman Kodak ( which filed for bankruptcy in January 2012 ).

The change of terminology from " External Affairs " to " Foreign Affairs " recognized, albeit belatedly, a shift that had occurred many years before.

Napoleon recognized the situation Ney was in and ordered Marshal Lannes to shift from the center of attack to help Ney.

James Massey recognized its application to linear feedback shift registers and simplified the algorithm.

Official use of police dogs was recognized as being of value on the European Continent as early as 1859, with the Belgium Police in Ghent using dogs to officially patrol with the night shift.

His shift from a liberal New Dealer to a conservative Democrat would become officially recognized after the war ended.

Moreover, Corbett recognized that once the enemy has been sufficiently weakened on sea and on land, the shift to the strategic offensive should not be delayed.

This shift is attributed to a variety of widely recognized social changes that occurred in American society in the 1960s and 1970s: changing sexual morals increased the prevalence of sexual activity outside of marriage and decreased the stigma surrounding out-of-wedlock births ; American attitudes about marriage and divorce changed ; and women made economic gains that increased their independence and ability to leave unhappy marriages.

Traditional classification systems recognized Nelumbo as part of the Nymphaeaceae ( water lily ) family, but traditional taxonomists were likely misled by evolutionary convergences associated with an evolutionary shift from a terrestrial to an aquatic lifestyle.

He recognized the material and energy constraints of the economy and proposed a shift from the cowboy economy to the spaceman economy.

This problem was already recognized in the 1870s, and only 20 years after the Telegraph Station was built there is evidence of plans to shift it about 40 kilometres further north to the crossing at Taylor Creek because of better groundwater supplies.

That shift from free student seating to in effect a reserved seating area for a school recognized spirit group became the basis the S. T. A. K.

He pushed for a shift in policy and practice that recognized the human needs of " retardates " and provided the same basic human rights as for the rest of the population.

" Although it is generally recognized that in this passage we can trace an attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder of the suppliants from the archon Megacles, it is highly improbable that the Prytaneis of the Naucraries did not play a part in the tragedy.

" Following another shift in popular taste, however, he is recognized for his contribution to monumental Victorian architecture.