“Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade”

Posted on by Abigail Seaver Caraveo

We were thrilled to be with veteran “Washington Blade” reporter Lou Chibbaro, Jr. and DC drag star Ella Fitzgerald (Donnell Robinson) at the premiere of Mattachine’s documentary film “Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade” (June 22, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Washington, DC).  “Lou’s Legacy” is now streaming on PBS.org. Over seven years, Mattachine helped Lou preserve and donate his archive to George Washington University’s Gelman Library.  In this time of erasure and rewriting of LGBTQ history, our history is everything!

Donnell Robinson (Ella Fitzgerald) and Lou Chibbaro, Jr.
L to R:  Charles Francis; Rebekah Robinson, board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist’s Association; Lou Chibbaro, Jr.; Donnell Robinson (Ella Fitzgerald); Washington Blade publisher Lynne Brown; and the film’s producer and director Patrick Sammon.