• Kameny is known as one of the most significant activist figures in the American LGBT rights movement.

He notably filed the first known civil rights claim based on sexual orientation pursued in a US court.

• Additionally, he was the first openly gay candidate for US Congress.

• In 1963, Kameny personally drafted a bill to overturn anti-sodomy laws in Washington, DC. It was passed 30 years later, in 1993.

• He also led a successful campaign to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the American Psycological Association’s DSM of Mental Disorders.