He considered the District’s repeal of an anti-sodomy law in early s to be another achievement. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington in , a pioneering activist group. The federal
Divorced women want hot sex czech dating government, which had cast him aside, issued a formal apology in for letting him go. The story of his struggle, chronicled in 77, pages of papers and memorabilia, was accepted in by the Library of Congress. Living into his 80s, he was able to recognize and revel in the turnaround of American actions and attitudes toward the community. Although he was aware that obstacles remained, he told a reporter last year that “it’s like a storybook ending.” “Frank was active at a time when he had no backup,” said Rosendall, a longtime rights activist in the District. “There was no significant organizational support. It was his sheer nerve, his patriotic indignation” that carried him. His home, the site of the interview in which he reflected on the turnabouts in his life, was, in a further testament to the esteem in which he was held, designated as a. Historic Landmark. Kameny, was born in the New York area on 21. In the interview with the Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner, he told of enlisting in the Army at the height of World II, a few days before he turned 18. In discussing how he had been “asked,” but “didn’t tell,” he said that “as a, vigorous teenager,” there were indeed “things to tell.” (Although, he said, there were not.) “I have resented for 67 years that I had to lie in order to serve in a effort that I strongly supported,” he said. “I did serve and I saw combat in Europe.” After his Army service he received a doctorate in astronomy in , and he came to Washington to work for the Army Map Service. His dismissal from that job came in. Published accounts say the dismissal was based on his homosexuality. One report said that he was arrested in Lafayette Square, which was known at that time as a place for cruising. The loss of the job subjected him to deprivation, and he surviving on 20 cents’ worth of food a day in some of the most difficult times. It forced his life into new paths.