In 1957, Frank Kameny was working as an astronomer for the U.S. Army Map Service when investigators discovered he was gay. He was fired immediately and placed on a federal blacklist - he'd never work for the government again. But instead of hiding in shame, Kameny decided to fight back. He took his case all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing that the government had no right to discriminate based on sexual orientation. He lost. But that failure ignited something in him. In 1965, four years before Stonewall, Kameny organized the first-ever picket of the White House for gay rights. He stood there with a sign demanding equality while America watched in shock. Kameny founded the Mattachine Society of Washington and coined the slogan "Gay is Good" - revolutionary words at a time when homosexuality was classified as a mental illness. He spent decades fighting until, in 2009, President Obama invited him back to the White House to extend rights to gay federal employees. He died in 2011, vindicated.