Senate Committee Report on homosexuality in the U.S. Government, published 1950. Courtesy of the National Archives.

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This file appears in: DC's LGBTQ+ History: Howard Hall at Saint Elizabeths Hospital
Senate Committee Report on homosexuality in the U.S. Government, published 1950. Courtesy of the National Archives.
This file appears in: DC's LGBTQ+ History: Howard Hall at Saint Elizabeths Hospital

In 1852, Congress chartered Saint Elizabeths Hospital as the Government Hospital for the Insane, with a mission of providing “the most humane care and enlightened curative treatment” for patients from the Army, Navy, and District of Columbia. The…