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    Franklin Edward Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011) was an American gay rights activist. He has been referred to as "one of the most significant figures"...
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  • and early 1966, Ernestine Eckstein and Frank Kameny corresponded by letters about Eckstein's wish to bring Kameny to speak on April 17, 1966 at DOB headquarters...
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  • Washington (MSW) was a gay rights organisation founded in August 1961 by Frank Kameny and Jack Nichols. While the organisation was named after the original...
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  • the East Coast. Gradually, members of these organizations grew bolder. Frank Kameny founded the Mattachine of Washington, D.C. He had been fired from the...
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  • national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the...
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    the Gay Revolution. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-0-312-67193-8. As Frank Kameny stated, 'By the time of Stonewall, we had fifty to sixty gay groups in...
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    Ashbrook, Frank Drake, Harlan Smith and Paul W. Hodge, all of whom made important contributions to astronomy. She also supervised Frank Kameny and Owen...
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    Beautiful", gay civil rights pioneer and participant in the Annual Reminders Frank Kameny originated the slogan "Gay is Good" in 1968 to counter social stigma...
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  • (LGBT) communities and LGBT rights. Gay pride Pride parade LGBT symbols Kameny, collected in Blasius and Phelan, p. 374 ""We're here, we're queer, I'm...
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  • June 16, 2016. Geen, Jessica (12 October 2011). "Gay rights campaigner Frank Kameny dies aged 86". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015...
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  • employment discrimination, Mattachine Society of Washington founder Frank Kameny wanted to portray homosexuals as "presentable and 'employable'". Many...
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    the first and most influential members of the gay rights movements, Frank Kameny, was thrust into unemployment because of his sexual orientation in 1957...
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  • Fat Tony Joanne Vannicola as Sam Yan England as Terry Arthur Holden as Frank Kameny Veronika Vernadskaya as Marianne Winters Richard Jutras as Queen Tooey...
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  • attended the first picket, including veteran activists Frank Kameny, Barbara Gittings, and Kay Tobin. Kameny insisted on a strict dress code for participants...
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  • Halpern (1913–1997), represented New York in Congress from 1959 to 1973. Frank Kameny (1925–2011, class of 1941), LGBT rights activist. Herb Karpel, Major...
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  • newspaper in the Philadelphia area. The publication was inspired by activist Frank Kameny, whom Segal first met in 1970. In 1988, Segal had a televised debate...
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    in 27 years. The Deviant's War is the first full-length biography of Frank Kameny, a key figure in the gay liberation movement who is widely considered...
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  • reflected in the political strategies of American homophile groups. Frank Kameny, an American astronomer and gay rights activist, had co-founded the Mattachine...
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    integration into society and the workforce seem non-threatening, Mattachine's Frank Kameny insisted on conservative dress and behavior at the protests: women were...
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  • first psychotherapist in the country to come out as gay to the public. Frank Kameny became the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress...
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  • homosexuality as a mental disorder. At the 1971 conference, gay rights activist Frank Kameny, working with the Gay Liberation Front to demonstrate against the convention...
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  • repeal of all victimless crime laws, including the sodomy laws. Dr. Frank Kameny became the first openly gay candidate for the United States Congress...
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    began a relationship with gay activist Frank Kameny, who had a great influence on him. Donaldson later wrote: Frank gave me a complete education both in...
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  • it. March 20 – The United States Supreme Court denies certiorari to Frank Kameny's petition to review the legality of his firing by the United States Army's...
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  • Action Jonathan Danilowitz, activist Jazz Jennings, transgender activist Frank Kameny, prominent gay rights activist from 1957 to 2011 (born to Jewish parents...
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  • Nichols co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington in 1961 with Frank Kameny, and the Mattachine Society of Florida in 1965. The Mattachine Society...
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    reflected in the political strategies of American homophile groups. Frank Kameny, an American astronomer and gay rights activist, had co-founded the Mattachine...
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    The Dr. Franklin E. Kameny House in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C., is a two-story, brick Colonial Revival-style house built in 1955, with...
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    Frank Kameny...
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  • (681) in Alberta, Canada. The asteroid was named after American activist Frank Kameny. Frankkameny is a non-family from the main belt's background population...
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