She described her decision in an interview: I decided to have women come into our home every week for seven years, and it just become an establishment.

[3]Vincenz was the only self-identified lesbian to participate in the second White House picket with Frank Kameny in 1965.

[2] A January 1966 photograph of Vincenz, taken by Kay Lahusen, appeared on the cover of the lesbian magazine The Ladder, making her the first woman with her face showing to do so.

[6] In 1972, Vincenz and Kameny headed one of the first LGBTQ+ fundraising groups for a presidential candidate, Gay Citizens for McGovern.

They were among the first open lesbians to appear on television in the US, and debated long-held stereotypes about gays with Susskind.