Collection: Life Before Stonewall

Frank Kameny on the early days of the gay movement and the Mattachine Society

Frank Kameny discusses the types of obstacles that the gay movement of the 1960s had to face, both externally and internally. Kameny was a leading voice in the early gay rights movement, president of the Mattachine Society, and fought for equal employment rights in the Supreme Court. Frank Kameny audio clip courtesy of Making Gay History, www.makinggayhistory.com. Photograph by Diana Davies, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.