Frank Kameny

You’re Frank Kameny! You embrace the KonMari approach to material goods and you hate clutter. You stay up late working through those cold winter nights on your political activism, perched under your favorite electric task light and petting your rescue tabby cat. You’re a trend-setter, not a trend-follower, so when someone asks you whether you’d like chocolate or vanilla ice cream, you say both. Astronomy is all in the details, but you’re focused on the big picture goals of equality and respect for all.

Frank Kameny was an astronomer and gay rights activist. Early in his career, he was fired from a position as an astronomer in the US Army’s Map Service (and barred from any future government positions) due to his homosexuality. He petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn this decision, though they refused to take up the case. Denied a career in astronomy, he spent the rest of his life advocating for gay rights.