Asteroid named for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny

Associated Press ^ | July 10, 2012 | BRETT ZONGKER

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Canadian amateur astronomer who discovered several asteroids has named one after gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny who died last year in Washington.

Kameny was a U.S. government astronomer in the 1950s who was fired from his job for being gay. He contested the firing all the way to the Supreme Court and organized the first gay rights protests outside the White House in the 1960s.

[Lockbar]

Someday it will be sucked into a black hole.

[jimmygrace]

My mama told me to avoid impact events from assteroids originating from the Crab Nebula...

[albie]

Astronaut Ben Dover will fly up and take a look at this here assteroid.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

The way these fag activists work — they start out wanting something little like an asteroid named after ‘em — but before long they’ll be demanding that you give ‘em Uranus.

Oh my, that is a good twist on an old joke.

[Verginius Rufus]

The usual propagandistic reporting. He wasn't fired for "being" gay but after being arrested by the police in a notorious "cruising" area in Washington, D.C. He became a very militant gay activist which is probably why he was selected by the Canadian astronomer to be honored.

The asteroid "honored" with his name seems to be a normal asteroid with an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. If they were serious about pushing the "safe sex" message, shouldn't they have named one of the Trojan asteroids after Kameny?

[longtermmemmory]

is this an official name or one of those “memory in a book” BS?

It seems not enough were and are being fired.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Wouldn’t it be ironic if someday this asteroid crashed into San Francisco?

[ozzymandus]

Beavis and Butthead would be right at home on this thread. “Assteroid!”

[Rocky]

He was bent upon honoring somebody south of the border, so to speak.

[SunkenCiv]

Frank Kameny was with another man.

Damn, that was subtle. ;’)

Thanks Free ThinkerNY.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Free ThinkerNY.

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[Cvengr]

Asteroid named for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny,

..but why would they name an asteroid, “Flaming A**hole”?????

[Cvengr]

If he was a gay rights pioneer, does that mean he went where no man had gone before???? eeeewwwww....