Frank Kameny
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American activist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Franklin Edward Kameny was an American gay rights activist. He has been referred to as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement. During the Lavender scare, in 1957, Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the U.S. Army's Army Map Service in Washington, D.C., because of his homosexuality, leading him to begin "a Herculean struggle with the American establishment" that would "spearhead a new period of militancy in the homosexual rights movement of the early 1960s".
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- How It All Started (2009) (18)
- Photoelectric light and color curves of V Vulpeculae. (1953) (0)
- APA Diversity Awards - Past Award Winners (2014) (0)
- Unmasking the Masked Voices (1969) (0)
- Photoelectric photometry of Uranus and Neptune. (1950) (0)
- Photoelectric colors of RV Tauri and yellow semiregular variables. (1957) (0)
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