David Hughes – The Tangent Group

David Hughes

David Hughes is an independent writer in Denver slowly drafting a triple biography of Mattachine Society cofounders Bob Hull and Chuck Rowland as well as Mattachine Foundation stalwart Wallace de Ortega Maxey. He can be contacted here.

August, 2020

Banned from California: Jim Foshee – Persecution, Redemption, Liberation… and the Gay Civil Rights Movement

A review of the book by Robert C. Steele. (more…) ...

August 06, 2020

January, 2018

The 1952 Gay-Latinx Coalition That Wasn’t

Harry Hay Meets His Match by David Hughes ...

January 04, 2018
Who Arrested Mattachine Cofounder Dale Jennings?

Blown Cover: The Arrest of Dale Jennings by David Hughes ...

January 04, 2018
Mattachine’s Queer Questionnaire and the Paul Coates Column

In 1952, the Mattachine sent candidates a survey that was exposed in the local press. Who responded? ...

January 04, 2018

July, 2017

The Live Wire Who Nearly Singlehandedly Organized the Bay Area Mattachine

Gerry Brissette: Mattachine Momentum, Misgivings Profile by David Hughes ...

July 11, 2017

May, 2017

Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out

A review of the book by Martin Aston. ...

May 14, 2017

March, 2017

An Unfinished Life; A Harry Hay Analog

Paul Benard: Mattachine Misfit Profile by David Hughes ...

March 31, 2017

August, 2016

An Unlikely FBI Informant Identifies a ONE Magazine Author

Vile Vault: The FBI Gets Its Man (or Woman) by David Hughes ...

August 28, 2016

January, 2014

Wallace de Ortega Maxey

Wallace de Ortega Maxey Profile by David Hughes ...

January 19, 2014

June, 2009

Chuck Rowland

Charles Dennison “Chuck” Rowland Profile by David Hughes ...

June 15, 2009