Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Frank Kameny’s pioneering gay journey
The letter began, “The United States federal government has received information indicating immoral conduct on your part.” It demanded, “Have you ever engaged in acts of anal copulation, sometimes referred to as sodomy or anal sodomy?
If yes, approximately how many such acts have occurred? … Dates of those acts? Were they in public? With how many people?” The letter’s author, Eric Cervini, Ph.D., added, “Just kidding.
