Useful Links
Frank Kameny, JFK, & the Case for LGBTQ+ Rights
https://jfk.blogs.archives.gov/2021/06/02/kameny-jfk-lgbtq-rights/
Frank Kameny Biography
https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/frank-kameny
Making Gay History Podcast
From Eric Marcus: Here are the absolute basics of what you need to know about Frank Kameny, who 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 18-year battle with the government to change the law so the same thing didn’t happen to other gay people.
https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-1-5/
#Pride50: Frank Kameny — Father of the gay rights movement
Kameny, one of the fathers of the LGBTQ rights movement, started fighting for gay rights more than a decade before the 1969 Stonewall rebellion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pride50-frank-kameny-father-gay-rights-movement-n1005216
https://jfk.blogs.archives.gov/2021/06/02/kameny-jfk-lgbtq-rights/
Frank Kameny Biography
https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/frank-kameny
Making Gay History Podcast
From Eric Marcus: Here are the absolute basics of what you need to know about Frank Kameny, who 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 18-year battle with the government to change the law so the same thing didn’t happen to other gay people.
https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-1-5/
#Pride50: Frank Kameny — Father of the gay rights movement
Kameny, one of the fathers of the LGBTQ rights movement, started fighting for gay rights more than a decade before the 1969 Stonewall rebellion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pride50-frank-kameny-father-gay-rights-movement-n1005216
Primary Sources
This folder contains a statement and letters to President John F. Kennedy and Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Counsel to the President, from Franklin E. Kameny of the Mattachine Society of Washington regarding civil rights for homosexuals, particularly with employment in the federal government.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHCNF/1418/JFKWHCNF-1418-002?image_identifier=JFKWHCNF-1418-002-p0017
The Kameny Papers
http://www.kamenypapers.org/correspondence.htm
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHCNF/1418/JFKWHCNF-1418-002?image_identifier=JFKWHCNF-1418-002-p0017
The Kameny Papers
http://www.kamenypapers.org/correspondence.htm
Lessons
Lesson plan about Kameny using four levels (contributions approach, additive approach, transformational approach and social action approach)
https://legacyprojectchicago.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/Frank%20Kameny%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf