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3 unusual facts about North American Conference of Homophile Organizations


Mattachine Society

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).

North American Conference of Homophile Organizations

Mattachine New York leader Dick Leitsch, who had influence within Mayor John Lindsay's administration, did not want to give up his organization's independence.

Mattachine New York and ONE, Inc. refused to attend the 1967 conference in New York because of these concerns.



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