SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Frank Kameny

1925 - 2011

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Franklin Edward Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011) was an American gay rights activist. He has been referred to as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement. During the Lavender scare, in 1957, Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the U.S. Army's Army Map Service in Washington, D.C., because of his homosexuality, leading him to begin "a Herculean struggle with the American establishment" that would "spearhead a new period of militancy in the homosexual rights movement of the early 1960s". Kameny formally appealed his firing by the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Kameny has received more than 1,111,087 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Frank Kameny is the 663rd most popular social activist (down from 537th in 2019), the 12,832nd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,670th in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Frank Kameny ranks 663 out of 840. Before him are Samuel Gompers, Henrietta Edwards, Anthony Dod Mantle, Derek Chauvin, Fartuun Adan, and Fannie Lou Hamer. After him are Tarana Burke, Maryam Namazie, Randa Siniora, Siti Musdah Mulia, Susana Trimarco, and Shin Dong-hyuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Frank Kameny ranks 520. Before him are Jimmy Dickinson, Peggy Cummins, John Compton, Dickie Moore, Frank Borghi, and Bill Eckersley. After him are Nat Hentoff, Philip Carey, Alexei Guryshev, Albert Paulsen, Ebrahim Alkazi, and Jerry Paris. Among people deceased in 2011, Frank Kameny ranks 471. Before him are Carl Robie, Charlie Callas, Margaret Whiting, Zbigniew Jaremski, Mika Myllylä, and Samuel Wanjiru. After him are Uche Okafor, Varkey Vithayathil, Roberta Cowell, Pete Lovely, Ronald Searle, and T. P. McKenna.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Kameny ranks 12,832 out of 20,380. Before him are Colton Haynes (1988), Joe Exotic (1963), Ashley Laurence (1966), Karen Joy Fowler (1950), Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (1926), and Bob Wills (1905). After him are Brian Boitano (1963), MacKinlay Kantor (1904), Molly Quinn (1993), David Gerrold (1944), Monica Barbaro (1990), and Ruth Asawa (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Frank Kameny ranks 110. Before him are Angelina Grimké (1805), Phoebe Hearst (1842), Norma McCorvey (1947), Bobby Henderson (1980), Derek Chauvin (1976), and Fannie Lou Hamer (1917). After him are Tarana Burke (1973), Gloria Allred (1941), Ruthie Tompson (1910), Juliette Gordon Low (1860), Wendell Phillips (1811), and Walter Reuther (1907).

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