# Frank Kameny
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Franklin Edward "Frank" Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011) was an American gay rights activist. He has been referred to as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement.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".Kameny formally appealed his firing by the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Although unsuccessful, the proceeding was notable as the first known civil rights claim based on sexual orientation pursued in a U.S. court.
When the WHO Finally Admitted Being Gay Isn't a Mental Illness (1990)
On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization endorsed the ICD-10 and quietly removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. It was, in the words of the activists who had fought for it, a seismic moment - the day a global institution finally admitted that the science had been on our side…
Pride: Past, Present, and the People We Don't Get to Lose
Pride didn't start with a parade. It started with a stand. In the Pride Month launch episode of Ty in Progress, queer storyteller Ty Pollock walks through the past, present, and future of Pride — from Sappho to Stonewall to the Pride flag flying year-round on his Salt Lake City house through every …
The Society of Fools: Harry Hay & the Mattachine Society, America's First Gay Rights Group (1950) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about the Mattachine Society, the first lasting gay rights organization in the United States, and Harry Hay, the man who called it into being in a Silver Lake living room.
Born April 7, 1912, in Worthing, England, and raised in Los Angeles, Harry Hay learned to organize …
The Society of Fools: Harry Hay & the Mattachine Society, America's First Gay Rights Group (1950) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about the Mattachine Society, the first lasting gay rights organization in the United States, and Harry Hay, the man who called it into being in a Silver Lake living room.
Born April 7, 1912, in Worthing, England, and raised in Los Angeles, Harry Hay learned to organize …
The Society of Fools: Harry Hay & the Mattachine Society, America's First Gay Rights Group (1950) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about the Mattachine Society, the first lasting gay rights organization in the United States, and Harry Hay, the man who called it into being in a Silver Lake living room.
Born April 7, 1912, in Worthing, England, and raised in Los Angeles, Harry Hay learned to organize …
Stonewall | Eric Marcus Remembers the Voices of Stonewall | 5
When the events of Stonewall happened in 1969, Eric Marcus was just a boy away at a New Jersey summer camp. Nearly 20 years later, he would document the voices of revolutionary LGBTQ activists like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Frank Kameny for his book, “Making Gay History: The Half-Century…
Stonewall | Eric Marcus Remembers the Voices of Stonewall | 5
When the events of Stonewall happened in 1969, Eric Marcus was just a boy away at a New Jersey summer camp. Nearly 20 years later, he would document the voices of revolutionary LGBTQ activists like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Frank Kameny for his book, “Making Gay History: The Half-Century…
Ep. 346: LGBTQ+ History Month: From Sappho to Stonewall to Today | This Is Everything
October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and on this solo episode of This Is Everything, Zach takes you on a whirlwind tour through thousands of years of queer history — the heroes, the heartbreaks, and the hard-won victories most of us were never taught in school.
Zach starts with a candid take on religio…
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