Updated On: 02 June, 2021 04:12 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
In a series of tweets, Google said that today's doodle was celebrating Kameny 'who paved the way for decades of progress' and thanked him for 'his efforts, in 1975 the Civil Service Commission finally lifted its ban on hiring #LGBTQ employees.'

In a file picture, former US President Barack Obama with gay rights activist Frank Kameny in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC in 2009. Photo: AFP
Google, on Wednesday, honoured American astronomer and gay rights activist Dr. Frank Kameny with a doodle. The search engine giant celebrated the start of the Pride Month with the doodle on Dr. Kameny, who is one of the renowned figures of the American LGBTQ+ rights movement.