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Dr. Franklin E. Kameny (born May 21, 1925 in New York City) is one of the major American gay rights activists. In 1957, Dr. Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C. because of his homosexuality. Four years later, he and Jack Nichols co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, an organization that pressed aggressively for gay and lesbian civil rights. Dr.

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	Interview with Kameny gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/interview/042897in.htm
	Gay Pioneers Frank Kameny was born May 21, 1925 in New York City. He obtained a B.S. in Physics from Queens College in 1948, a M.A. and Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1949 and 1956. In 1957, Kameny commenced an 18 year effort to overturn the US Civil www.gaypioneers.com/soundbitesframe-kameny.cfm
	glbtq >> social sciences >>... One of the founding fathers of the American gay rights movement, Frank Kameny helped radicalize the homophile movement, preparing the way for the mass movement for equality initiated by the Stonewall Riots of 1969. www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/kameny_f.html
	Kameny The conviction and self-assuredness expressed above has marked Dr. Franklin E. Kameny's career in gay civil rights on the national and local front for more than four decades. www.rainbowhistory.org/kameny.htm
	Strategies for sodomy law... ... and charge people. Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, a long-time gay rights activist, put an end to the solicitation charges in Washington, DC in 1972 by writing to the top three law enforcement ... www.sodomylaws.org/strategies.htm
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	The Kameny Papers Visit the Kameny Papers Journalism Archive : More from Frank's attic, one of the most comprehensive collections of early gay journalism! www.kamenypapers.org
	Wikipedia The definitive Wikipedia entry for Franklin E. Kameny. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_E%2e_Kameny
	Reason Magazine - A... "I must admit I am quite shook-up over this matter," Nevin Feather wrote to Franklin Kameny. www.reason.com/news/show/117116.html
	Signs of Progress Once upon a gay time, before the Stonewall riots in New York, before gay marriage, gay adoption and gay real estate, before "Will & Grace," "The L Word" and cable channels called Logo and Here!, before everyone had a gay relative, the www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/...

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