When longtime gay activist Frank Kameny thumbed through Tom Brokaw's latest book, BOOM! Voices of the Sixties, he noticed a distinct lack of effete lisps and wasn't happy about it. So Kameny did what anyone who came of age in the '60s would do: He wrote a letter.

Addressed to Brokaw and his editors at Random House, the letter rips into Duncan the Wonder Horse for "simply delet[ing] the momentous events of that decade which led to the vastly altered and improved status of gays in our culture today.... One does not hear even one single gay voice in your book. The silence is complete and deafening."

Kameny tells Radar that the letter, which was sent out on Sunday, has yet to elicit a response. Brokaw did indirectly respond to Kameny's complaints when Reliable Sources' Howard Kurtz asked him about BOOM!'s lack of limp-wrists: "It wasn't any attempt on my part to suppress it. It is just that the gay rights movement really came later, after the '60s, it really began to take hold in the '70s," he said.

Curious. If memory (and Wikipedia) serves, a fairy intense riot erupted in '69 at a New York club called Stonewall, which was pretty important to the whole gay thing.

"Stonewall was a transformative event," Kameny said, adding that apparently Brokaw's definition of the '60s inexplicably doesn't include 1969 or 1961 when the militant gay rights movement started, or 1967 when Kameny coined the phrase "Gay is good."

What does Kameny hope to accomplish by taking Brokaw to task? "My ideal outcome, which of course is utterly impractical, would be for him to withdraw the book and issue it with a new chapter added. But that's not going to happen," he said.

At post time, attempts to contact Brokaw and his editor at Random House, like his book, were fruitless.