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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJune 5th, 2016
The following is excerpted from a letter written by Frank Kameny (May 21), on behalf of the East Coast Homophile Organizations (ECHO), to the national board of the Daughters of Bilitis, which was threatening to leave ECHO over the issue of picketing:
As you know by now, our picketing of White House on May 29 was one of the most successful and important ventures our movement has undertaken.
We had nationwide — and worldwide — publicity — in every favorable sense. It was shown on TV in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Indiana, Texas, Seattle, that we know of so far. … The picketing was sell and properly done. The 10 men and 3 women participating were well-groomed, and well-dressed — suits, white shirts, and ties, for men; dresses for women were mandatory. We were told that ours was an impressive-looking picket line indeed. … The entire enterprise was carried out with order and with dignity.
In view of all of us, the adoption of picketing, on a regular basis, and properly done, is one of the most important advances in the homophile movement in recent years. In every good sense these demonstrations are gaining us attention and respect. …
At the ECHO delegates meeting in New York on Saturday, June 5, we were informed that such demonstrations are considered to be against the policies of DOB, and that if ECHO supported them, DOB would have to leave ECHO.
In addition, we were informed that DOB would picket only when the action was backed by the larger community.
First, this is arrant nonsense! When one has reached the stage where picketing is backed by the larger community, such picketing is no longer necessary. The entire force and thrust of picketing is a protest on issues not yet supported or backed by the larger community, in order to bring issues to the fore, and to help elicit that support.
Second, this is in keeping with a mentality which has pervaded this movement from its beginning — homosexuals must never do anything for themselves; they must never come out into the open. They must work through and behind others. They must never present their own case — let others do so for them. We have outgrown this “closet-queen” type of approach, and it is well that we have.
[Source: Michael G. Long (ed.) Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014): 96-98]
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