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| style="padding:15px;" |''"Our presence there was only the beginning of an increasingly intensive campaign by homosexuals to change the approach of [[psychiatry]] toward homosexuality or, failing that, to discredit psychiatry."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Frank Kameny, a letter to the ''Psychiatric News''<ref name="GayOkay">{{cite book |title=Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything |author=Robert R. Reilly |publisher=Ignatius Press |place=San Francisco |year=2014 |pages=120 |isbn=978-15861-78338 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-JTobNH80 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Gay Crusaders |author=Kay Tobin, Randy Wicker |publisher=Arno Press |place= |year=1975 |pages=131 |url=http://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=AzsbAAAAYAAJ}}</ref></div>
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'''Frank Kameny''' has been a long-time [[homosexual]] activist and self-described [[atheist]]<ref name="AmericanActivism">{{cite book |title=Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism |author=David De Leon |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1994 |pages=253-259 |isbn=978-03132-74145 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oHYD-XUiSBEC |quote=Early on Kameny developed an absolute belief in the validity of his intellectual processes and a habit of challenging accepted orthodoxies.}}</ref> who has had a long career advocating the removal of any restrictions on human acts long considered by sane societies as [[obscene]], dangerous, and [[disturbed character|disordered]].<ref name="Bestiality OK">{{cite web |url=http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/prominent-homosexual-activist-says-bestiality-ok-as-long-as-the-animal-does |author=Peter J. Smith |title=Prominent Homosexual Activist Says Bestiality OK “As Long as the Animal Doesn’t Mind” |publisher=LifeSiteNews.com |date=4 Jun 2008 |accessdate=13 December 2015 |quote=}}</ref> He was a champion of a new militancy in the fledging homosexual “rights” movement of the early 1960s and founder and president of the [[Mattachine Society]] of [[Washington, D.C.]] ('''MSW''')<ref name="AmericanActivism"/>, a [[pressure group]] advancing [[Homosexual Agenda]]. His claim to fame is successfully manipulating the [[American Psychiatric Association]] ('''APA''') into declassifying homosexuality, under pressure from gay activists<ref name="AmericanActivism"/>, as a mental disorder<ref name="Bestiality OK"/> and he was declared ''“in many ways, America’s first gay activist.”''
'''Frank Kameny''' has been a long-time [[homosexual]] activist and self-described [[atheist]]<ref name="AmericanActivism">{{cite book |title=Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism |author=David De Leon |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1994 |pages=253-259 |isbn=978-03132-74145 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oHYD-XUiSBEC |quote=Early on Kameny developed an absolute belief in the validity of his intellectual processes and a habit of challenging accepted orthodoxies.}}</ref> who has had a long career advocating the removal of any restrictions on human acts long considered by sane societies as [[obscene]], dangerous, and [[disturbed character|disordered]].<ref name="Bestiality OK">{{cite web |url=http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/prominent-homosexual-activist-says-bestiality-ok-as-long-as-the-animal-does |author=Peter J. Smith |title=Prominent Homosexual Activist Says Bestiality OK “As Long as the Animal Doesn’t Mind” |publisher=LifeSiteNews.com |date=4 Jun 2008 |accessdate=13 December 2015 |quote=}}</ref> He was a champion of a new militancy in the fledging homosexual “rights” movement of the early 1960s and founder and president of the [[Mattachine Society]] of [[Washington, D.C.]] ('''MSW''')<ref name="AmericanActivism"/>, a [[pressure group]] advancing [[Homosexual Agenda]]. His claim to fame is successfully manipulating the [[American Psychiatric Association]] ('''APA''') into declassifying homosexuality, under pressure from gay activists<ref name="AmericanActivism"/>, as a mental disorder<ref name="Bestiality OK"/> and he was declared ''“in many ways, America’s first gay activist.”''