Dr. Franklin E. Kameny Residence

The Dr. Franklin E. Kameny House is a 1955 brick Colonial Revival home in Northwest Washington, D.C., that served as the residence and office of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny (1925 to 2011). After being fired from the federal government for being gay in 1957, Kameny co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, led early White House pickets for gay rights, and filed the first known gay rights appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The house was named a D.C. Historic Landmark in 2009, unusual because Kameny was still living there, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 2011, weeks after his death. It is often called a landmark of the movement rather than a National Historic Landmark specifically.