Pioneering Gay Rights Activist Frank Kameny Dead at 86
Pres. Obama shakes hands with gay rights activist
Frank Kameny on June 17th after signing a memorandum
on federal benefits and non-discrimination.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS) – A man credited as being this country’s first gay rights activist, and who made Philadelphia a base for his fight, has died.
Frank Kameny was 86.
“Frank will be remembered in the scope of American history as an iconic civil rights leader,” says Malcolm Lazin, head of Equality Forum.
Lazin says he is one of many who have followed in Kameny’s pioneering footsteps.
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