Frank Kameny Papers 1843-2006 (bulk 1957-1996)

Matlovich, Leonard, 1943-1988

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Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988) was an American Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. He was the first gay service member to purposely out himself to the military to fight their ban on gays, and perhaps the best-known openly gay man in the United States of America in the 1970s next to Harvey Milk. His fight to stay in the United States Air Force after coming out of the closet became a caus...

Slater, Don, 1923-1997

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Administrative history ONE Inc. was founded in the last months of 1952, employed W. Dorr Legg as business manager in June 1953, and was officially incorporated by October 1953. The articles of incorporation declared that ONE Inc.'s primary goal was "to publish and disseminate a magazine dealing primarily with homosexuality from a scientific, historical and critical point of view, and to aid in the social integration and rehabilitation of the ...

Willer, Shirley E., 1922-

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Littlejohn, Larry

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Voeller, Bruce R.

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Activist. From the description of Reminiscences of Bruce Voeller : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574628 A biologist, researcher, and founder of the Mariposa Education and Research Foundation, Voeller died from AIDS-related complications on February 13, 1994 at his home in Topanga, Calif. Voeller was perhaps best known for coining the acronym AIDS for "acquired immune deficiency syndrome," a term he used...

Kameny, Frank, 1925-2011

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Frank Kameny (b. May 21, 1925, New York, N.Y.-d. October 11, 2011, Washington, D.C.) was an American gay rights activist. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II with combat duty in Germany and recieved a Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 1956. In 1957 he was dismissed from the U.S. Army Map Service on charges of homosexual activity and appealed the dismissal through government review boards and the federal courts, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court which declined his ap...

Martin, Robert A., 1946-1996

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Gittings, Barbara, 1932-2007

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Barbara Gittings (1932–2007), prominent American GLBT activist, founded the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, and was the first editor of DOB's The Ladder . Gittings was instrumental in forming the first gay caucus in the American Library Association (ALA). To honor her contributions, both the ALA and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) created annual awards bearing her name. From the guide to the Barbara Gittings papers, 1967-2006, (University of Minnesot...

Gunnison, Foster, 1925-1994

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Foster Gunnison, Jr. was born in 1925 in Bronxville, New York. In 1944 he entered Haverford College and soon after transferred to Columbia University, graduating in 1949. Gunnison moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 1955 where he completed a Masters degree in psychology and in philosophy at Trinity College. Gunnision then moved to New York City and decided to join the Mattachine Society, the nation's oldest homophile organization, established in San Francisco in the early 1950s. In the mid 1960s, ...

Polak, Clark P., 1937-1980

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Biography Born on October 15, 1937, Clark Phillip Polak grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After dropping out of Pennsylvania State University, Polak became a businessman and owner of Frankford Personnel and Northeast Advertising Service. An active and outspoken member of the Philadelphia gay community, Polak joined the homophile group, Janus Society, in 1962, and was elected the organization's...

Noble, Elaine, 1944-

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Grier, Barbara, 1933-2011

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Grier is a writer, editor, and publisher of articles and books on lesbians and lesbianism. She is one of the founders of Naiad Press, a lesbian publishing house. From the description of Barbara Grier-Naiad Press collection, 1956-1999. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 47183122 ...

East Coast Homophile Organizations

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In January 1962, representatives of homophile organizations on the east coast met in Philadelphia and agreed to form a loose affiliation called ECHO, for East Coast Homophile Organizations. ECHO organized three successive annual conferences and also undertook sponsorship of the July 4th Annual Reminder picketing at Philadelphia's Independence Hall in 1965. The first annual conference was held in Philadelphia under the theme "Homosexuality -- Time for Reappraisal." The second conference was held ...

Nichols, Jack

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Jack Nichols is a gay activist, co-editor of the newsweekly Gay, and author with Lige Clarke of books and articles. From the description of Jack Nichols papers, 1962-1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517561 Jack Nichols is a gay activist and senior editor of the online daily newspaper Gay Today. He was co-editor of Gay (one of the earliest gay newsweeklies) and is the author of numerous books and articles including The Gay Agenda: Talking Back To The Fu...

Gayer, Richard L.

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Schlegel, Richard LaMar

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Editor and publisher of gay magazines, gay activist. From the description of Richard L. Schlegel papers, [ca. 1960-1980] (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934438 ...

Inman, Richard, 1926-1985

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Gay activist and taxi driver; founder of the Florida Mattachine Society. From the description of Richard Inman papers, 1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971998 ...

Scott, Bruce Chardon, 1912-2001

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Bruce Chardon Scott (March 7, 1912 - December 26, 2001) brought one of the first anti-gay employment discrimination suits in the United States. Fired from the federal civil service in 1956 for alleged homosexuality, Scott joined the Mattachine Society of Washington in the early sixties and brought suit against the federal government for re-instatement. That case, Scott v. Macy, was one of the first major gay rights legal victories and was instrumental in leading to an end of twenty-five years of...

Tobin, Kay

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Barbara Gittings (1932-2007), gay rights activist. Kay Tobin, gay rights activist. From the description of Kay Tobin and Barbara Gittings collection of printed materials on the Gay Liberation Movement, 1964-2007 (bulk 1965-1980). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702199204 ...

Leitsch, Dick

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Crawford, Donald Lee

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Sagarin, Edward, 1913-1986

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Mattachine Society of Washington. Mattachine Society of Washington records. 1956-1984.

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Grey, Antony, 1927-2010

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English gay activist. Secretary of the Albany Trust and the Homosexual Law Reform Society. From the description of Antony Grey's "Sex, Morality and Happiness." (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64054450 From the guide to the Antony Grey's "Sex, Morality and Happiness.", (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Warner, Arthur Cyrus, 1918-2007

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Manford, Morty, 1950-1992

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Morty Manford (1950-1992) was an activist and key strategist in the early days of the gay rights movement, a Legal Aid lawyer, and an Assistant Attorney General of New York State. While an undergraduate at Columbia University in 1971, he founded Gay People at Columbia, one of the first gay campus groups in the country. Subsequently, he began writing about the goals of the gay movement, speaking on college campuses and at gay clubs, and organizing protest demonstrations, ...

Gay Rights National Lobby (U.S.)

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Historical Note Created in Chicago in 1975, the Gay Rights National Lobby was "registered in Washington, D.C., as a civil rights lobby dedicated to obtaining federal legislation which will guarantee equal protection under the law to all men and women, whatever their affectional or sexual preference." GRNL's activities included serving as an advocate for gay and lesbian civil rights issues such as housing and employment discrimination; buildin...

National Gay Task Force

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Tabler, Otis Francis

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Gay Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C.

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United States Civil Service Commission

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The United States Civil Service Commission was established by the Civil Service Act of 1883. The Commission replaced the “spoils system” and democratized the process of hiring for federal jobs; first, because it required that these positions be filled through competitive examinations which were open to all citizens; second, because it required selection of the best-qualified applicants without regard to political considerations. During World War II, the need for federal ...

Mattachine Society of Washington

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Wicker, Randy

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Ulrich, Otto H., 1935-2001

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Otto H. Ulrich, Jr., was born in New York on 9 Nov. 1935. He received his B.A . from The George Washington University, graduating with honors in German and Spanish. He pursued graduate work in Russian and taught himself French and a variety of other languages. Ulrich became a translator/indexer, then editor, at the Library of Congress. He was open about his homosexuality, joining the Mattachine Society of Washington in 1964. He was involved in a number of protests by gay groups during the 1960s....

Kight, Morris, 1919-2003

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Born in Texas, Kight was an early advocate of integration; involved with Southern Christian Leadership Conference; graduated, US Career Service Training School, 1942; arrived in LA, 1957, beginning career as "underground gay liberationist"; in 1967 member of Dow Action Committee, opposing defoliants; spokesperson in the Gay Liberation Front of Los Angeles; helped found Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade Committee; co-founder Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center; member of California State Democra...

Wentworth, Benning

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Epithet: Governor of New Hampshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x0003d0 ...

Fulton, Robert Lee

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