DC pride festival honors gay rights pioneer Kameny
Posted on June 9, 2009
Filed Under 365Gay, 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 …
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