one of the mattachine society's founders, a man named frank kameny, he is a worker with the postal servicee house. >> i understand that we're being picket bade group of homosexuals. the policy of the department is that we do not employee homosexuals knowingly, and if we discover homosexuals in the department, we discharge them. >> every american citizen has the right to be considered by his government on the basis of his own personal merit as an individual. >> frank kameny is a pioneer. he's standing there, doesn't care what people think. he's saying, i am just as normal as you are. it's a polite reform movement. >> homosexuality is, in fact, a mental illness which has reached epidemiological proportions. >> the american psychiatric association deems homosexuality to be a mental disorder. >> this involves showing the gay man pictures of nude males and shocking him with a strong electric current over a short period of time. hopefully, he will be unable to get sexually aroused. >> it's very hard to achieve civil rights for a group where the medical world is describing this group as mentally