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In this June 1, 2009 file photo, Frank Kameny is seen in his home in Washington. A Canadian amateur astronomer who discovered several asteroids has named one after U.S. gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny who died last year in Washington. Kameny, who earned a doctorate in astronomy at Harvard University, was an astronomer with the U.S. Army Map Service in the 1950s but was fired from his job for being gay. He contested the firing all the way to the Supreme Court and later organized the first gay rights protests outside the White House, the Pentagon and in Philadelphia in the 1960s. Kameny died last year at age 86. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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