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Jul. 31, 2020
A gay rights prophet: The story of activist Frank Kameny
In his new book, “The Deviant’s War,” Eric Cervini chronicles how Kameny’s sheer determination began to chip away at homosexual barriers to tenure and college administration, and laid the groundwork for gay people to work in an environment similar to the one in which they were beginning to finally, openly conduct their lives.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
When you drive down Seventh Avenue in New York City, just before Sheridan Square and the Christopher Street Cigar Store, you can see the Stonewall Building on the left. One might expect a monument of some sort there, but there is only the glossy, nondescript building, its sides shining above the river of cars, its bottom floor no more than a utility space now. In 1969, a gay bar by the same name inhabited this space, and one night, in response to police harassment, ga...
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