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Your film introduced ME to him as more than just a name I'd heard in the news. It meant that the jobs I could get were only with a series of second rate companies which were on shaky ground and which, in several instances, went out from under me. All rights reserved. His sources included the Kinsey report, the FBI director J Edgar Hoover’s newly declassified “Sex Deviates” computer program, and interviews with activists Is it due to academic rigor that Cervini fails to mention Hoover’s long-rumored intimacy with his deputy, Clyde Tolson? Frank Kameny’s name came up and I saw that he had just recently passed away. Later, during his interrogation, Kameny would explain that the man touched his penis “for a few seconds” and there had been no erection or solicitation. He takes the reader on an epic journey.

In 1957, he was fired from his government job, evidently because of his sexual orientation. More and more, gay rights activism consumed him. Frank Kameny sued the government in 1957 for firing him as a government astronomer because he was gay.

Kameny on Race Questionnaires The Straight Dope, November 22, 1991; Interview by Jack Nichols April 28, 1997; Frank Kameny on The 7th Avenue Project Radio show, July 4, 2010; News "Signs of Progress" Washington Post, July 23, 2005 "Gay Is Good: How Frank Kameny Changed the Face of America" Metro Weekly, October 5, 2006

On August 28, 1956, an astronomer named Frank Kameny was arrested after hidden police officers observed, through a public restroom’s ventilation grille, Kamney make sexual contact with another man while both stood at urinals. KAMENY: We initiated picketing and demonstrating by gay people in April of 1965 and a little band of 10 rather uncertain people, and those days that kind of demonstration - I mean actually picketing in front of the White House - was the ultimate in protest in 1965. His case is believed to be the first civil rights claim based on sexual orientation that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Frank Kameny in 2009. Never again did the Harvard-trained scientist, the son of eastern European Jewish immigrants, gain long-term employment in his field, or even the barest financial security. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP A more significant issue is the book’s end. That is due partly to Cervini’s admirable use of a wealth of material. This one is about one of the early pioneers of LGBTQ Rights: astronomer Franklin E. Kameny (1925-2011). In 1957, he was fired from his government job, evidently because of his sexual orientation. No one is immune. An early ally is the To convey respectability, Kameny’s marchers were strictly choreographed and costumed. Visit our website Friends and activists are mourning the death of Frank Kameny today. But winning came at a terrible cost.Soon after Russia’s launch of Sputnik, his special skills were needed. And so, each day, even while evaluating The Deviant’s War, I am vigilant against hidden unfairness.Square jawed, film star-handsome, Cervini exhibits a facile charm. But after earlier thoroughness, one yearns for 500 pages more instead. Kameny gained something else of value.

Frank Kameny, Washington DC, November 3, 1978.

Loathed more than other groups, most gays were temporarily protected from worse treatment by an ability to deny their true identity. Okay, kids, gather around. A few years later, he joined with other activists to take the gay rights movement to the streets. Here he is in an interview with NPR in 1995. Before reading The Deviant’s War, I wondered: “How can someone so young, so attractive, have written a book that might be considered important?” My expectations were low. He died yesterday on National Coming Out Day. In 1957, Kameny was fired from his government job in the Army Map Service for being a “sexual pervert”. I saw that this was Frank Kameny's last major interview. Snappily, one learns the resolution of the myriad lives populating The Deviant’s War. He appealed his firing all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Happy Pride! Copyright © 2011 NPR. He was among the first Americans to insist that “gay is good”, to admit to being sexually active but well-adjusted, but he never found the fulfillment of an enduring relationship. I did not anticipate that in writing about Frank Kameny’s heroic stand, Cervini could also cover his own, mine and that of all LGBTQ America. White supremacy is America’s fatal malady. Such illogic has robbed society of women who would make excellent presidents, gays who are outstanding footballers, blacks who are architectural historians, and more. Introduction: Frank Kameny can rightly be considered one of the most important pre-Stonewall homophile activists. I saw that he had donated, I believe, the largest individual LGBTQ+ collection of personal papers to the Library of Congress. Interviews. Perhaps he felt most readers would already be aware of such speculations.A more significant issue is the book’s end. He resolved to come out, in order to fight the federal government.With spare prose and linear sequencing that recalls James Baldwin, Cervini chronicles this mission, unsuccessful appeal after unsuccessful appeal.

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