Lindsay Graham
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But by this time, Kameny had learned about the efforts of a gay society called Matachin, and he asked the New York branch to let him start a chapter in Washington, DC.
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But what Kameny discovered was a tiny movement, splintered by infighting.
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In 1961, eleven years after the Matachin Society was founded, and six years after the beginnings of lesbian group Daughters of Bilitus, their combined national membership still numbered less than 400 people.
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Members were also divided about how or whether the organization should get involved in more direct political action.
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Some, especially white professionals, worried what
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At best there was a sense of ambivalence about whether direct political action could actually find any footing.
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Matachin member and one magazine writer Jim Keppner recalled negative reactions from gay friends when he would invite them to meetings, saying, If you mentioned organizing, they'd say that society hated us and always would, and that you couldn't change things.
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Frank Kemmeny wanted to use his DC chapter to push the homophile movement in a more political direction.
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In his mind, gay people needed to be standing up and demanding full equality.
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Kameny looked to the nonviolent sit-ins and protest marches of the Black Civil Rights Movement and its most prominent leader, Martin Luther King Jr.
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In nineteen sixty three, Kameny and five other Matachin members attended the march on Washington, as a quarter million African Americans demanded civil rights legislation, job training, and school desegregation.
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Looking around the crowded mall, one of the Matachin members wondered aloud, why aren't we having civil rights marches too?
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The march on Washington had been organized by King's Chief Lieutenant Byard Ruston, an openly gay black man who worked behind the scenes of the civil rights movement because his sexuality was considered a public relations liability.
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In nineteen fifty three, Rustin had been arrested on charges of lewd conduct and vagrancy after he was found in a parked car with two white men following a speech he gave in Pasadena, California.
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He was sentenced to two months in jail and forced to register as a sex offender.
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Nevertheless, Rustin went on to play a critical role in the civil rights movement, helping create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and introducing doctor King to Mahatma Gandhi's teachings of nonviolent resistance.
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Kemany felt gay people should be demonstrating in the same manner, peacefully but forcibly.
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In a nineteen sixty four speech, he argued that unless the homophile movement adopted the vigorous civil liberties social action approach of civil rights leaders, we will accomplish nothing of lasting value, and our job will go on literally without end.
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And even though this notion of direct political action was too radical for many in Manachin, a young woman named Barbara Giddings agreed with it.
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Giddings had grown up in Philadelphia in the early 50s, where she would often hitchhike to New York City.
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