age: 86 yrs 4 mos 20 days
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Frank Kameny was "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 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".
Obituary published in the Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco, California) on October 13, 2011.
age: 86 yrs 4 mos 20 days
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Frank Kameny was "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 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".
Obituary published in the Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco, California) on October 13, 2011.
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FRANKLIN E / KAMENY / PFC / US ARMY / WORLD WAR II / MAY 21 1925 / OCT 11 2011 / GERMANY
