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LGBT civil rights hero, Frank Kameny accepts National Capitol Area Leadership award.
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Transcript Provided by YouTube:
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I was fired in 1957 in those days
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homosexuality as such was I was no
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further reason or rationale was the
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basis for exclusions in the civil
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service and by the end of the year sort
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of at the Christmas presents I was out
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and I was to my knowledge the first
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person who ever fought that back and I
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took it all the way up to the Supreme
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Court for which I wrote my own petition
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for writ of certiorari where the Supreme
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Court chose not ticked case in late
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March 1951 and I realized he was an
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issue that something had to be done over
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the years and if it’s important to me
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can technically take all the money I
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have tended not to adjust myself to
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society but with considerable success
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have adjusted society to me and society
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is much the better off for the for the
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adjustments that I haven’t
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in July of 1968 I came up with gay is
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good and if there is one thing that I
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would want to be remembered for even in
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the action perhaps of everything else
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it’s having coined that slogan I’m
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delighted to receive this award from HR
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see these cause I have an ego along with
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everybody else and it’s always nice to
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feel that the things that I’ve worked on
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have paid off to the extent whether
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they’re considered worthy enough to be
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recognized
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