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    The Deviant's War: superb epic of Frank Kameny and the fight for gay equality

    Eric Cervini’s story of one man’s struggle touches on many others and leaves the reader wanting 500 pages more
    by Michael Henry Adams Jun 07, 2020 3 minutes
    Frank Kameny picketing in a still from a documentary, The Lavender Scare. Photograph: PBS

    Trained at Harvard and Cambridge, Eric Cervini is an LGBTQ historian. His debut, subtitled The Homosexual vs the United States of America, falls short of perfection. But not by much.

    The book relates the 86-year life of Franklin Edward Kameny, an astronomer turned gay rights activist. Primarily, it concerns a decades-long campaign to combat discrimination against gays in the workplace and US military. Ultimately, by outlining similar struggles among gays, blacks and others oppressed by prejudice and patriarchy, it does far more. 

    In 1957, following arrest for “lewd conduct” in a San Francisco “tea room”, Kameny lost

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