Lectures with Road Scholar: Frank Kameny — Trailblazing the Gay Rights Movement
Abbot Public Library 235 Pleasant St, Marblehead, MA, United StatesIn 1958, astronomer Frank Kameny was dismissed from the U.S. Army Map Service after refusing to answer questions about his sexual identity under President Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450. That dismissal set him on a new course: Kameny became one of the nation’s first openly gay LGBT+ rights activists, founding a grassroots advocacy group and organizing […]