Based on declassified FBI records and 40,000 personal documents for authentic historical context
Focuses on the Mattachine Society, founded by Frank Kameny, as the first organization to protest gay persecution in the federal government
Explores intersections with the Black freedom movement, LGBTQ+ activism, and trans resistance
Written by historian Eric Cervini, a Pulitzer finalist and recipient of the Randy Shilts Award
Includes personal accounts and public battles against Congress, FBI informants, and institutional racism
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By: Eric Cervini
In 1957, Frank Kameny, an astronomer working for the US Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny—like countless gay men and women for before him—was promptly dismis
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