Season 1: Episode 5: Frank Kameny

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Season 1: Episode 5: Frank Kameny

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Nov 10, 2016

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Frank Kameny lived a long and extraordinary life. He was fired from his federal government job in 1957 because he was gay. He didn’t just go home and pull the covers over his head. He fought a successful eighteen-year-battle with the government to change the law so the same thing didn’t happen to other gay people.

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Nov 10, 2016

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Season 1: Episode 5: Frank Kameny

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