Gay Men Heroes
Craig RodwellCraig L. Rodwell was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors, and as the prime mover for the creation of the New York City pride demonstration.
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Fred SargeantFrédéric André Sargeant is a French-American gay rights activist. He took part in the 1969 Stonewall riots and was one of the many organizers of the first Gay Pride march and celebration.
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Jim OwlesJim was the founding president of the Gay Activists Alliance of New York, the largest militant gay rights organization in the United States, and in 1973 was the nation's first openly gay person to run for public office.
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Frank KamenyKameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer because of his homosexuality, leading him to begin "a Herculean struggle with the American establishment" that would "spearhead a new period of militancy in the homosexual rights movement of the early 1960s"
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Harvey MilkHarvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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The Perfect Camping Mug
Alan TuringAlan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. In August 2009, British programmer John Graham-Cumming started a petition urging the British government to apologize for Turing's prosecution as a homosexual.
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