Prime Time Radio presents  Before and After Stonewall:  A Talk with Dr. Frank Kameny
(84, activist, historian and raconteur)

On June 1, 2009, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the [Stonewall] riots as a reason to “commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans”.

Frank Kameny, Ph.D., age 84, is acknowledged as the founding father of the modern gay rights movement. In this rollicking conversation, he takes on all issues from gay marriage to the impact of AIDS on the gay rights movement.

“The most momentous single Gay Movement event occurred at the end of June, 1969, when the “Stonewall Rebellion” in New York…converted what had been a tiny, struggling gay movement into the vast grass-roots movement which it now is.

(…) At the start of the Sixties gays were completely invisible. By the end, and especially after Stonewall, we were seen everywhere: in entertainment, education, religion, politics, business, elsewhere and everywhere.”

Frank Kameny, Letter to Tom Brokaw

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