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[Joel S. Berson]

Another icon:

 From a comment by "Frank Straight-Rights" on a (UK) Mirror News
article "Top UKIP official quits after gay hate rant exposed by the
Sunday Mirror," 19 Jan. 2013, at
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ukip-dr-julia-gasper-quits-1545955

"The person who did advocate sex with animals was, notoriously,
Frank Kameny, one of the most prominent gay-rights activists in the
USA, described as a gay-rights icon and founding father of the gay
movement."

(The NYTimes obituary, cited by Wikipedia, merely calls him a "pioneer".)

Joel

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