Frank Kameny-George Painter correspondence, 1981-1997.

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Frank Kameny-George Painter correspondence, 1981-1997.

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Letters relating to a history of Washington which Painter was writing and for which he was seeking information about the history of legislation against gays, especially the city's sodomy law.

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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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Painter, George D.

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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...