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A button used to protest and raised awareness for LGBT Rights

This is a button from the National March on Washington

This photograph from the First National March on WAshington for Lesbian and Gay Rights shows a sign for one of the earliest chapters of PFLAG (parents and friends of lesbians and gays).

This recording is of the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. You can hear protests, people chanting, people speaking their opinions and so on.

This photograph is the main banner that was used in the First National March on Washington for LGBT Rights

This photo shows a woman holding a sign to show her support at the first national march on washington for lgbt rights in 1979

This is a publication created by the Mattachine Society of DC

This is a letter that Frank Kameny wrote to Senator Sam J. Ervin about the rights of LGBT people in the government. Kameny wrote a lot of different letters such as this one to discuss the place of homosexuals in government jobs after he was fired for…

This letter was written by James T. Clark, the secretary for the House of Representatives, requesting that Kameny come and testify on the Dowdy Bill, which was proposed in an attempt to outlaw the Mattachine Society of Washington D.C.

This is the first page of the Kameny's testimony in court on the case of the Dowdy Bill, which was designed to outline the Mattachine Society of DC. In this document, Kameny defneds the Mattachine Society and clearly outlines what the organization…