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Frank Kameny dies; D.C. gay-rights activist was 86 Kameny was a founding member of the Mattachine Society, coining the “Gay is good” slogan in 1969.
2005
Franklin Kameny, known as "the father of the gay rights movement" in the District, at his home in Washington.
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1971
Frank Kameny, second from right, leads a group of protesters to the White House.
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1971
As a candidate in the District's first election for a nonvoting delegate to Congress, Frank Kameny called a news conference at which he read a letter he had written to President Richard M. Nixon. At the northwest gate of the White House, Kameny presented his letter to Sgt. John Machoskie of the White House police force; Machoskie promised to put it in the proper hands.
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1971
Frank Kameny, as a candidate for the District’s nonvoting delegate seat in the House, awaits balloting results at his campaign headquarters.
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2005
Frank Kameny in his attic, with his collection of signs, posters and memorabilia from the early days of the gay rights movement.
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2006
Frank Kameny, left, with Harry Rubenstein, curator for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, after Kameny's collection of papers, letters, posters and documents was transferred to the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian.
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2009
President Obama hands Frank Kameny the pen he used to sign a presidential memorandum regarding nondiscrimination in federal benefits.
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2009
From left, Lena Lett, Frank Kameny, Ellen Kahn, Donna Payne and Blair Michaels gather after receiving awards for being "heroes," and in Kameny's case, a "super hero,” by the Capital Pride Alliance in 2009.
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Frank Kameny, who organized the first annual Reminder Day picketing for gay rights on July 4, 1965, at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, takes part in a demonstration for gay rights at Independence Hall in 2009.
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2010
TV reporter Roby Chavez, right, with Frank Kameny at the reception following Chavez's marriage to Chris Roe at the Woodrow Wilson House in the District. Roe proposed to Chavez on the night the District became the sixth place in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage.
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2010
From left to right, Frank Kameny, then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and D.C. Council member Jack Evans (Ward 2) with a copy of the street sign given to Kameny when a two-block section of 17th Street NW was named in his honor.
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2010
Frank Kameny speaks at the ceremony at which a two-block section of 17th Street NW was named in his honor. At right is an original 1965 protest sign he used in front of the White House.
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2010
From left, then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry, Frank Kameny and D.C. Council member Jack Evans cheer as the street sign is unveiled.
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