Frank Kameny - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:58:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Frank Kameny - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 LGBTQ-Rights Pioneer Frank Kameny Gets His Due in a New Book https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/04/lgbtq-rights-pioneer-frank-kameny-gets-his-due-in-a-new-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lgbtq-rights-pioneer-frank-kameny-gets-his-due-in-a-new-book Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:00:02 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1190103 A new book, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, offers an in-depth look at the life and times of an LGBTQ pioneer. What it’s about: Frank Kameny, a Harvard-trained astronomer fired from his job with the Army Map Service in 1957 for being gay. Kameny cofounded the Mattachine Society of Washington, an […]

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This DC Couple Started a Queer-History Instagram. Now They Have Almost 400K Followers and a Book Deal. https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/08/dc-couple-matthew-riemer-leighton-brown-queer-history-instagram-we-are-everywhere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-couple-matthew-riemer-leighton-brown-queer-history-instagram-we-are-everywhere Wed, 08 May 2019 18:08:57 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=707247 Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown had been dating about a year and a half when they decided, on a whim, to attend the 2015 unveiling of a tombstone for longtime DC gay activist Frank Kameny in Congressional Cemetery. As they listened to the dedication, they realized how little they knew about all of this history […]

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