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GAY rights activist Frank Kameny is regarded as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement.Google will honor Kameny wit

Frank Kameny seen at a reception hosted by President Barack Obama in 2009.  (Image credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Kameny struggled with poverty while protesting his job loss, which culminated in filing with the Supreme Court, which declined the case. His legal objections to his job loss based on his sexual orientation are the first on government record. At the time, homophobia was common and the federal government had anti-LGBTQ policies amounting to a " Lavender Scare," in parallel to the more notorious anti-communist Red Scare. Historians estimate that more than 5,000 fe...

Share Frank Kameny was fired from his civil-service job for being gay, but he fought back. Photograph by Simon Bruty. Editor’s note: On October, 11, 2011, Frank Kameny passed away. Below is our interview with him from 2010. In 1957, Frank Kameny lost his job with the Army Map Service because he was gay. In being fired, the World War II veteran and Harvard PhD joined the ranks of men and women who, due to their real or perceived sexual orientation, were hounded out of government service. Most moved on to other careers, but Kameny fought back, launching a legal battle that, while initially u...

Photo by Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The pandemic and the presidential election dominated the news in 2020, but natural disasters also loomed large across the U.S. There were 22 extreme weather events last year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including the wildfires that spread across California, the tropical storms and hurricanes that pummeled the Atlantic coast, and a handful of tornadoes. Those disasters left more than $95 billion in damages in their wake, with homeowners and businesses large and small bearing the brunt of the costs. Man...

February 23, 2021 3:14 pm Applications for Northern Ireland’s 2021 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Entitlement Transfer Service will open on March 1, Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons has announced. Welcoming the launch, Minister Lyons said: “I am pleased to announce that the 2021 Single Application and Map Service and Entitlement Transfer Service will open on March 1, 2021. Entitlement transfer applications will be accepted up to May 4, and Single Applications for Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and other schemes such as the Environmental Farming Scheme can be submitted up to May 17 this year ...