Although his petition was denied, his stand for being gay started a revolution. After being denied by the government, he picketed the white house and the pentagon for equal rights in April 1965. Franklins sign said” Homosexual citizens want to serve their country too. Not long after that they ordered the first gay demonstration at the white house with Franklin. Franklin kept up a relentless campaign directed toward removing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation from civil service employment, in the granting of security clearances, and in qualifying for service in the military(“Frank Kameny”).
Franks work to make all homosexuals equal paid off as you can tell because now so people accept them as normal people more than non-homosexuals. …show more content…
After his campaign failed he realized his radicalism could be effective and he became a full time campaigner. Kameny graduated from New York borough of Queens when he was only 16 and joined Queens College to study physics. After he served in Europe in the army he came back and then tried to get his bachelor's degree in 1948. He then got a master’s degree from Harvard the following year.
Frank Kameny was the father of the LGBTQ civil rights movements. The nonviolence of black civil rights organizers Bayard Rustin and the revolutionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. influenced his methods. Franklin was called a freak because they thought that being homosexual was a mental disorder but he wanted to show the world that they are normal. Frank was one of the greatest Americans “Hero” he has helped so much people feel comfortable for who they are.
In 1973 the APA announced the declassification of homosexuality as a mental illness. Kameny has a very famous slogan “Gay Is Good” (“Frank Kameny.” BNL Blood Drives: 56 Facts, www.bnl.gov/bera/activities/globe/kameny.htm). Kameny appeared in a documentary called “Gay Pioneers”. Kameny was chipping away at the ban of gays in the military since the 1970’s. Some of his signs that he used to picket the white house are now in a National museum of American history of the Smithsonian Institution. His house in Washington D.C was listed on the National register of Historic …show more content…
He was the greatest leader in the fight for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality. Before he made his stand for equality gay people had very little to no self-confidence. They felt their only chance of getting confidence was to ask there psychiatrists to say that they had a mental illness and that should be pitied and get therapy instead of being frowned upon and banned by the government. Kameny came to take the position that "we cannot ask for our rights as a minority group ... from a position of inferiority or from a position ... as less than whole human beings. I feel that the entire homophile movement ... is going to stand or fall upon the question of whether or not homosexuality is a sickness and upon our taking a firm stand on it."( Carter, David. “The Leader Who Made Gay Rights a Cause.” CNN, Cable News Network, 14 Oct.
Franks work to make all homosexuals equal paid off as you can tell because now so people accept them as normal people more than non-homosexuals. …show more content…
After his campaign failed he realized his radicalism could be effective and he became a full time campaigner. Kameny graduated from New York borough of Queens when he was only 16 and joined Queens College to study physics. After he served in Europe in the army he came back and then tried to get his bachelor's degree in 1948. He then got a master’s degree from Harvard the following year.
Frank Kameny was the father of the LGBTQ civil rights movements. The nonviolence of black civil rights organizers Bayard Rustin and the revolutionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. influenced his methods. Franklin was called a freak because they thought that being homosexual was a mental disorder but he wanted to show the world that they are normal. Frank was one of the greatest Americans “Hero” he has helped so much people feel comfortable for who they are.
In 1973 the APA announced the declassification of homosexuality as a mental illness. Kameny has a very famous slogan “Gay Is Good” (“Frank Kameny.” BNL Blood Drives: 56 Facts, www.bnl.gov/bera/activities/globe/kameny.htm). Kameny appeared in a documentary called “Gay Pioneers”. Kameny was chipping away at the ban of gays in the military since the 1970’s. Some of his signs that he used to picket the white house are now in a National museum of American history of the Smithsonian Institution. His house in Washington D.C was listed on the National register of Historic …show more content…
He was the greatest leader in the fight for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality. Before he made his stand for equality gay people had very little to no self-confidence. They felt their only chance of getting confidence was to ask there psychiatrists to say that they had a mental illness and that should be pitied and get therapy instead of being frowned upon and banned by the government. Kameny came to take the position that "we cannot ask for our rights as a minority group ... from a position of inferiority or from a position ... as less than whole human beings. I feel that the entire homophile movement ... is going to stand or fall upon the question of whether or not homosexuality is a sickness and upon our taking a firm stand on it."( Carter, David. “The Leader Who Made Gay Rights a Cause.” CNN, Cable News Network, 14 Oct.