Just a quick note, this episode includes outdated language that is offensive.

Inik, can you describe for our listeners the video that I'm showing you right now?

Yes, so you've got people picketing in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and

they look like sort of clean-cut people.

They're well groomed.

And they also have signs, signs that say things like sexual preference is irrelevant to employment,

homosexual citizens want equal treatment as human beings.

But it's kind of eerie, Hannah, because nobody's saying anything.

There's no chanting, there's no yelling.

Yeah, this is a silent protest.

The group protesting is part of the Madashine Society.

The founder and leader of the silent protest is that guy wearing the suit and the tie with

the pocket square talking to a reporter.

That's Frank Kammany.

I lived for eight months on 20 cents worth of food a day when I had the 26.

This is at a time when people in my profession were in higher demand and they had been meaning

all human history.

And I could not get a job specifically because I was at 12.

Frank Kammany was very rare in his fighting back against the federal government and his

being fired from his job.

What usually happened when a homosexual, as we were all called, was fired from his job or

her job is that that person would sort of slink off into silence and hope that nobody

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