ABSTRACT
This speech was delivered in the summer of 1964 by Dr. Franklin Kameny, at that time president of the Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, as the 100th monthly public lecture sponsored by the Mattachine Society of New York at Freedom House in New York City. The bill referred to in the text (HR-5990) was later passed by the House of Representatives, but Congress adjourned without Senate action being taken on the measure. The statement opposing federal employment discrimination issued by the Capitol Area chapter of the ACLU is the next chapter in this book.ECHO was the East Coast Homophile Organizations, and the San Francisco meeting referred to by the Methodist clergyman was the beginning of the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
