DC pride festival honors gay rights pioneer Kameny - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – Fresh off his doctorate from Harvard, Franklin Kameny had been a government astronomer for just five months when he was asked to meet with federal investigators. They said they had information that he was a homosexual. He was promptly fired.
In that moment in 1957, more than a decade before the Stonewall riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, one of the cause's earliest and most effective activists was born...
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