Longtime gay activist Frank Kameny dies

By Lou Chibbaro Jr. on October 11, 2011

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/11/longtime-gay-activist-frank-kameny-passes-on/

Franklin E. Kameny, one of the nation's most prominent gay rights leaders, died in his home today apparently from natural causes. He was 86.

The death came less than a month before the planned celebration of the 50th anniversary of Kameny's founding of the Mattachine Society of Washington, the first gay rights organization in the nation's capital.