Today we celebrate the anniversary of the first-ever march on Washington, led by Frank Kameny
By Jonathan Zalman for Tablet, orginally published April 17, 2015
On April 17, 1965, seven men in suits, and three women in dresses, stood on the sidewalk in front of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s big white home to demand equal rights for the LGBT community. Among them was Frank Kameny, a gay Jew who later worked to have the anti-sodomy law repealed in the 1990s.
“I’ve said for many years that San Francisco was looked upon as the center, but D.C. is very much the success story of the gay movement,” he told the Washingtonian in a 2010 interview. Kameny died in 2011.
Also among the demonstrators was Paul Kuntzler, who recently recalled the day’s events for the Washington Blade:
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