Gay Pioneers Guests at HRC Dinner

WASHINGTON (PRNewswire) -- Two of the original "gay pioneers" who kicked off the modern civil rights movement for lesbians and gays with demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia in the mid-1960s will be the special guests of the Falls Church News-Press, a progressive weekly newspaper in Northern Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital, at the Human Rights Campaign's 25th Anniversary National Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, October 1.

Frank Kameny and Lilli Vincenz, long known for their seminal roles in the movement in its early days prior to the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, are the guests this Saturday of the Falls Church News-Press, whose founder and owner Nicholas F. Benton was also an activist in the formative days of the movement just after Stonewall in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Kameny and Vincenz, along with Vincenz' long-time partner Nancy Davis, were featured speakers at a event held in Northern Virginia in May sponsored by the Falls Church News-Press called "The Gay Pioneers" which included the showing of a video documentary by the same name that featured them and was aired on PBS.