Before there was Stonewall or Harvey Milk, Frank Kameny, an astronomer in the US Army Map Service Department who was fired by the federal government in 1957 for being gay, introduced militancy into the staid agitation among homosexuals that had defined the protest movement since its inception in the early-1950s. Gay is Good collects for the first time highlights from the author's private papers from the Library of Congress, functioning as a memoir of 50 years of activism.