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In order to launch the first challenge to [[Gedankenexperiment#Marriage_vs._Homosexual_Life-style|moral normatives]] related to [[sexual]] [[behavior]] and to associated policies adopted by [[United States Federal Government]], Kameny employed tactics including '[[zapping the shrinks]]', publicity based on [[marketing|Emotionally manipulative ad campaigns]], [[judicial activism|staged court suits]], lobbying, public demonstrations, and organized harassments directed at specific opponents. In his effort to [[psychological manipulation|manipulate]] the [[public opinion]] about the nature of [[homosexuality]], he took inspiration from the black [[Civil Rights movement]] and redefined homosexuality, traditionally considered a moral or mental health problem, into a civil liberties issue. He misinterpreted the traditional constitutional values such as liberty and pursuit of hapiness and gave them radically new and twisted meanings - to be vehicles for sexual anarchy. In line with tenets of [[moral relativism]], he misrepresented the group of people indulging in the sexual misconduct as marginalized "minority" that deserves public protection and special privileges. For this purpose, MSW lobbied the local affiliate of [[ACLU]], government officials, distributed press releases, and testified before committees. Exploiting the know-how on marketing trickery, Kameny was focusing primarily on emotions and avoided attempts to engage in usage of rational arguments or in educating audience. Thus, unlike earlier groups that had sponsored debates by medical authorities on the causes or problems of homosexuality, Kameny took strong pro-gay stands that were based on bare assertions like the one from Jack Nichols of MSW that homosexuality is ''"a preference, orientation, a propensity, on a par with, and not different in any kind from, heterosexuality"''; and at the same time orchestrated a series of test "discrimination" cases in the courts. In 1965, he also helped organize a series of gay pickets in front of [[White House]] and other government buildings in the Washington, D.C.. In order to minimize the influence of the negative scientific data on homosexual behavior, he realized he needed to mask them by adopting positive labels. That's why by 1968 he coined the slogan ''"Gay is Good"'' that was consciously mimicking the often chanted motto ''"Black is beautiful."''                 

In order to launch the first challenge to [[Gedankenexperiment#Marriage_vs._Homosexual_Life-style|moral normatives]] related to [[sexual]] [[behavior]] and to associated policies adopted by [[United States Federal Government]], Kameny employed tactics including '[[zapping the shrinks]]', publicity based on [[marketing|Emotionally manipulative ad campaigns]], [[judicial activism|staged court suits]], lobbying, public demonstrations, and organized harassments directed at specific opponents. In his effort to [[psychological manipulation|manipulate]] the [[public opinion]] about the nature of [[homosexuality]], he took inspiration from the black [[Civil Rights movement]] and redefined homosexuality, traditionally considered a moral or mental health problem, into a civil liberties issue. He misinterpreted the traditional constitutional values such as liberty and pursuit of hapiness and gave them radically new and twisted meanings - to be vehicles for sexual anarchy. In line with tenets of [[moral relativism]], he misrepresented the group of people indulging in the sexual misconduct as marginalized "minority" that deserves public protection and special privileges. For this purpose, MSW lobbied the local affiliate of [[ACLU]], government officials, distributed press releases, and testified before committees. Exploiting the know-how on marketing trickery, Kameny was focusing primarily on emotions and avoided attempts to engage in usage of rational arguments or in educating audience. Thus, unlike earlier groups that had sponsored debates by medical authorities on the causes or problems of homosexuality, Kameny took strong pro-gay stands that were based on bare assertions like the one from Jack Nichols of MSW that homosexuality is ''"a preference, orientation, a propensity, on a par with, and not different in any kind from, heterosexuality"''; and at the same time orchestrated a series of test "discrimination" cases in the courts. In 1965, he also helped organize a series of gay pickets in front of [[White House]] and other government buildings in the Washington, D.C.. In order to minimize the influence of the negative scientific data on homosexual behavior, he realized he needed to mask them by adopting positive labels. That's why by 1968 he coined the slogan ''"Gay is Good"'' that was consciously mimicking the often chanted motto ''"Black is beautiful."''                 

Kameny spread his activist agenda across the country by giving speeches, radicalizing existing gay organizations and and helping a myriad of new groups to emerge in other cities. Kameny ventured into local politics and became the first openly gay person to run for [[Congress]]. He used the elections to increase the publicity for his "personal freedoms" platform and to politicize the local gay community. After the lost elections, Kameny's campaign committee reorganized into [[Gay Activists Alliance]] ('''GAA''').  

Kameny spread his activist agenda across the country by giving speeches, radicalizing existing gay organizations and helping a myriad of new groups to emerge in other cities. Kameny ventured into local politics and became the first openly gay person to run for [[Congress]]. He used the elections to increase the publicity for his "personal freedoms" platform and to politicize the local gay community. After the lost elections, Kameny's campaign committee reorganized into [[Gay Activists Alliance]] ('''GAA''').  

In the 1990s, Kameny formed a corporation in Washington, D.C., under the name of "Traditional Values Coalition," thereby preventing a [[California]]-based pro-family organization of the same name from operating in the city.<ref name="AmericanActivism"/>   

In the 1990s, Kameny formed a corporation in Washington, D.C., under the name of "Traditional Values Coalition," thereby preventing a [[California]]-based pro-family organization of the same name from operating in the city.<ref name="AmericanActivism"/>   

[[Zapping the shrinks]]

[[Zapping the shrinks]]

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[[Category: Pseudoscience]]

[[Category: Pseudoscience]]

[[Category: Sexual Revolutionaries]]

[[Category: Sexual Revolutionaries]]