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  • Final Farewell

    By on March 2, 2012

    [UPDATE: Organizers of the planned March 3 service for Frank Kameny announced today, March 2, that the service is “on hold in deference to the...

  • National News Briefs

    By on January 26, 2012

    Astronomical Society Honors Kameny Frank Kameny's lifetime efforts to ensure equal employment rights for all were inscribed on a certificate of appreciation presented on the...

  • Friendly Fire

    By on January 12, 2012

    ''Some of my best friends are '' is deservedly one of the most mocked phrases in the English language, given that it...

  • Hurry! The Smithsonian’s Frank Kameny exhibit closes Monday

    By on January 11, 2012

    The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s exhibit on the gay pioneer Frank Kameny, who died in October, includes protest signs donated by Kameny, and...

  • The Rule of Three

    By on December 22, 2011

    The idea that significant deaths come in threes is an attractive myth that's always easy to see in hindsight – consider December 2011's intriguing grouping...

  • Golden Hour

    By on November 24, 2011

    It was the ''golden hour'' of late afternoon on Nov. 3 during the viewing for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny when I walked outside the...

  • Federal Leaders Honor Kameny

    By on November 15, 2011

    Various government officials, members of Congress, local community leaders and others congregated at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill to bid a final...

  • Kameny To Be Honored on Capitol Hill

    By on November 10, 2011

    The official memorial service for Frank Kameny, the pioneering gay-rights activist who died Oct. 11 at age 86, will be held on Capitol Hill Tuesday,...

  • Kramer vs. Everyone

    By on November 10, 2011

    Larry Kramer has kept his Cassandra act going for an awfully long time. To summarize: Why aren't you angrier? Why aren't you in the streets?...

  • Farewell to a Fighter

    By on November 4, 2011

      (Photo by John Riley)} Hundreds of members of the LGBT community and local civic leaders gathered at the historic Carnegie Library in D.C.'s Mount...

  • National Register to Accept Kameny House

    By on October 31, 2011

    The house and office belonging to recently deceased gay civil rights pioneer Frank Kameny will be added to the National Parks Service's Register of Historic...

  • Kameny in Combat

    By on October 27, 2011

    My first direct experience of Frank Kameny's combative style came during a gay rights debate that I arranged at Villanova University in March 1978 for...

  • Kameny's Artifacts on Display at Smithsonian

    By on October 24, 2011

    The tributes to local gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny continue in the days following his death on Oct. 11, with the Smithsonian offering the public...

  • Kameny Viewing Announced

    By on October 20, 2011

    The Dr. Franklin E. Kameny Host Committee today announced details for ''Lying-in-State for Dr. Franklin E. Kameny,'' a five-hour viewing of the gay-rights pioneer who...

  • Golden Years

    By on October 20, 2011

    I've been thinking a lot lately about aging, mostly because it's something my body seems to be rapidly doing. Of course, much of this obsession...