When Frank Kameny was fired by the government for being gay, he embarked on a lifelong fight for equal rights.
Dr. Frank Kameny, who was one of the most prominent LGBTQ activists in the U.S., is celebrated in today's Google Doodle in honor of Pride Month.This sparked the astronomer's lifelong fight for equal rights. However, Kameny appeared to be interested in activism from an early age.
According to NYC LGBT Sites, at the age of 15, Kameny said:"If I disagree with someone, I give them a chance to convince me they are right. "And if they fail, then I am right and they are wrong and I will just have to fight them until they change." Kameny's activism involved organizing one of the first gay rights advocacy groups in the U.S., years before the Stonewall Riots of 1969. In 1965, Kameny is often credited as the first to stage a gay rights protest, with around 10 other people in front of the White House, and later theThen, in the early 1970s, Kameny challenged the American Psychiatric Association's classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, along with Barbara Gittings of the Daughters of Bilitis.
In 1975, the Civil Service Commission finally reversed its ban on LGBTQ employees, a challenge Kameny had pursued for around 20 years.
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