Kameny, one of the fathers of the LGBTQ rights movement, started fighting for gay rights more than a decade before the 1969 Stonewall rebellion. Pride50
However, unlike most of the thousands of gay and lesbian federal employees who were terminated during the so-called“His whole career was destroyed and all of his aspirations, and he was so furious that he took on the Civil Service Commission and dedicated the rest of his life to fighting for gay rights and to end the kind of discrimination he'd faced,” George Chauncey, an LGBTQ historian and Columbia University professor, told NBC News.
Kameny sued the government in a 1960 lawsuit that went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. He didn’t win the case — regarded as the first civil rights claim based on sexual orientation to be brought to the Supreme Court — but that was just the beginning for Kameny. In 1961, he co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, one of the earliest LGBTQ advocacy groups.
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