All posts tagged "frank kameny"
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Book Ends
Inside Lambda Rising, D.C.'s only bookstore dedicated to the LGBT community, it's hard to find any indication that the store will be closing its doors...
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Convocation to Council
Fresh from his flight home from Germany, where he was part of the final yet unsuccessful push to secure Washington's Gay Games bid for 2014,...
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Our Glass
A Conversation with Cronkite GLBT History Month Calendar Time's Trails Personal Preservation GLBT history is all over the Washington area, easier to spot in some...
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Time's Trails
A Conversation with Cronkite GLBT History Month Calendar Time's Trails Personal Preservation Even if you've never met Paul K. Williams, if you live in the...
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Milestone Medals
The White House has announced that President Obama will soon award the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to legendary gay-rights activist...
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Executive Exchange
Following weeks of criticism from gay activists, bloggers and political leaders, President Barack Obama welcomed more than 275 members of the GLBT community to a...
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Employing Anger
Gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny was in the White House on June 17 to attend the signing of the Presidential Memorandum on benefits for the same-sex...
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Full Circle
Frank Kameny in the 2009 Capital Pride Parade Fifty-two years after being fired from the federal government for being gay, Frank Kameny has now being...
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Wedding Planners
There was no press release, no big speech, no photo for posterity. Instead, it seems the meeting Councilmember David Catania (I-At large) called March 19...
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Gay History Month
In September, for example, the Library of Congress announced that a collection of materials from pioneering gay-rights local Frank Kameny, known as the Kameny Papers,...
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Bloc Party
Gay liberation was a product of its times. Its birth at the end of the '60s was no accident. By the time street queens and...
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Inside Man
Earl Robert Merritt Jr., a.k.a. Butch Merritt, claims humble beginnings outside Charleston, W.Va. Had he remained in West Virginia, it's nearly certain his life would...
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Last Word
Please share your memories of Cheryl Spector below. ''Cheryl and I met in the early 1990s during the days of Queer Nation and ACT UP....
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Frank's Day
To mark two occasions -- the District's 2007 Capital Pride week and the 50-year anniversary of Frank Kameny's entry into the public fight for gay...
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Acknowledging Accomplishment
Washington is a city bursting at the seams with history, though gay history doesn't often come to mind. New York trumps other locales with the...
