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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyAugust 9th, 2016
Shortly after receiving a fund-raising permit from the District Columbia, Frank Kameny, president of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., sent the following letter to all members of the House of Representatives:
The Mattachine Society of Washington,
Washington, D.C., August 28, 1962.Hon. __________,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.DEAR __________: Enclosed, for your interest and information, is a formal statement of the purposes of the Mattachine Society of Washington, a newly formed organization, devoted to the improvement of the status of our country’s 15 million homosexuals.
Included, also, is a copy of our news release, which was submitted to the Washington newspapers and others, and to the various press services.
The question of homosexuality, and the prejudice against it, both personal and official, is a serious one, involving, as it does, more than 1 out of every 10 American citizens, including roughly a quarter-million in, each, the Federal civil service, the Armed Forces, and security-sensitive positions in private industry, and at least 10 percent at your constituents.
We feel that the Government’s approach is archaic, unrealistic, and inconsistent with basic American principles. We feel, in addition, that it is inexcusably and unnecessarily wasteful of trained manpower and of the taxpayers’ money.
We realize that this area presents you with many potential problems, some of them quite subtle and touchy ones of politics and public relations, and that they are not always subject to easy solution, but policies of repression, persecution, and exclusion will not prove to be workable ones in the case of this minority, any more than they have, throughout history, in the case of other minorities. This is a problem which must be worked with, constructively, not worked against, destructively, as is now the case. A fresh approach by the Federal Government is badly needed.
We welcome any comment which you may have on this subject.
We will be pleased to meet with you personally, at your convenience, to discuss these and related matters.
Thank you tor your consideration of our position.
Sincerely yours,
Franklin E. Kameny,
President.
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