On A Pale Horse

Ok, Tim Hardaway, what's the big f-ing deal. So someone's different then you... so what? But it's not really my place to judge him like that... isn't this America, freedom of speech, as long as it's not in a burning theater? Whatever, the world is so fractured at this point it's going to take a lot more then me bitching on an itty bitty blog. I mean really, what the hell can I do? What the hell can anybody do?
Barbara Gittings didn't feel like that. She was one of the pioneering lesbian activist in the United States. During her first year at Northwestern she became close to another female student, this prompted her to examine her own sexuality. In 1958 she founded the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. Later she became an editor of The Ladder, a lesbian newsletter. During the 1970's she joined the movement to have the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder. Ms. Gittings also championed the movement to include gay literature in the American library; in 2003 she was made a honorary member of the American Library Association.

Ms. Gittings passed away from breast cancer. She was with survived by partner of 46 years, Kay Tobin Lahusen and her sister.

July 31, 1932 - February 18, 2007
RIP

sources:
Philadelphia Citypaper
GLBT History Month

Labels: 1913 births, 2007 February deaths, activist, cancer

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