DC pride festival honors gay rights pioneer Kameny
(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 …
Home of gay activist Frank Kameny named DC landmark
(Washington) The Washington, D.C., home regarded as the epicenter of the city’s gay rights movement is being designated a historic landmark.
The home belongs to 83-year-old Franklin E. Kameny, who is considered the “father of gay activism” by the Historic Preservation Review Board.
Kameny fought in World War II, earned a doctorate …
