Comments on: Kameny in context http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/20/kameny-in-context/ the gay community's news source Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Don Charles "Stuffed Animal" http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/20/kameny-in-context/#comment-37242 Don Charles "Stuffed Animal" Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:12:01 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=30382#comment-37242 Bronski and Boneberg are idiots! There isn’t, never has been and never will be a “queer” community. Frank Kameny didn’t advocate for any f*cking “queer” community. He worked tirelessly on behalf of Lesbian and Gay Americans. He was a Gay Rights activist! Don’t take that away from him by imposing the insulting word “queer” on his legacy, or linking him with bisexual and transsexual issues. Give him the credit he deserves. If he wasn’t our greatest, he was surely in the top tier.

]]> By: Jerry Pritikin http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/20/kameny-in-context/#comment-37239 Jerry Pritikin Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:06:05 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=30382#comment-37239 There are many unsung heroes in the early gay Rights Movement. I consider myself a one man army. In my case, too often those in charge of various gay organizations were self appointed. They acted like the kid who owned the baseball and bat, and unless you did it his way… would threaten to quit and take their equipment with them.

I am proud of my footnotes in gay history… but when I tried to get the attention of people like Paul Boneberg and the Homel wing of the S.F. Library… they were not interested. Today, with the www. you can make waves by yourself and not depend on those who want full control over things they were not involved in.

I am thankful that I arrived in San Francisco at the end of the Beatnik era… and got to know so many pioneers there. I always knew it was courageous drag queens who fought back to change anti-gay laws or gave birth to gay politics. Those who came later, too often forgot to thank the pioneers.

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