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Gay Liberation Front members

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The list Gay Liberation Front members includes Harry Hay, Brenda Howard, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Angela Mason. The list consists of 27 members.

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Gay Liberation Front
Gay liberation groups in major US, UK, and Canadian cities during the 1960s-70s
  • 1.

    Harry Hay
    American activist
    Harry Hay
    Overview: Henry "Harry" Hay Jr. (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. He was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained ...
    Date of birth: 7 April 1912
    Date of death: 24 October 2002
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Radical Faeries members 43T
    Activists from Los Angeles 23T
    Founders of neopagan movements 30T
  • 2.

    Brenda Howard
    Bisexual rights activist (1946–2005)
    Brenda Howard
    Overview: Brenda Howard (December 24, 1946 – June 28, 2005) was an American bisexual rights activist, sex-positive feminist, and polyamorist. Howard was an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement.
    Date of birth: 24 December 1946
    Date of death: 28 June 2005
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Jewish American activists 37T
    Borough of Manhattan Community College alumni 6T
    Syosset High School alumni 25T
  • 3.

    Sylvia Rivera
    American trans woman and activist
    Sylvia Rivera
    Overview: Sylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) was an American gay liberation, and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen ...
    Date of birth: 2 July 1951
    Date of death: 19 February 2002
    Age: 50 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Transgender drag performers 28T
    Activists from New York City 295T
    Hispanic and Latino American drag queens 17T
  • 4.

    Marsha P. Johnson
    Trans Activist
    Marsha P. Johnson
    Overview: Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992), born and also known as Malcolm Michaels Jr., was an American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen. Known as an outspoken advocate for ...
    Date of birth: 24 August 1945
    Date of death: 6 July 1992
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Activists from New York (state) 775T
    Activists from New Jersey 42T
    African-American drag queens 43T
  • 5.

    Angela Mason
    British civil servant and activist
    Angela Mason
    Overview: Angela Margaret Mason CBE (born 9 August 1944) is a British civil servant and activist, and a former director of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lobbying organisation Stonewall. She ...
    Date of birth: 9 August 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
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    Honorary Fellows of the London School of Economics 85T
    LGBT businesspeople from the United Kingdom 41T
    LGBT politicians from England 235T
  • 6.

    Mary Susan McIntosh
    British sociologist, feminist, political activist and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights
    Mary Susan McIntosh
    Overview: Mary Susan McIntosh (13 March 1936 – 5 January 2013) was a British sociologist, feminist, political activist and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights in the UK.
    Date of birth: 13 March 1936
    Date of death: 5 January 2013
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    British women sociologists 58T
    Academics from London 74T
    20th-century English women writers 690T
  • 7.

    Martha Shelley
    American feminist
    Martha Shelley
    Overview: Martha Shelley (born December 27, 1943) is an American activist, writer, and poet best known for her involvement in lesbian feminist activism.
    Date of birth: 27 December 1943
    Age: 81
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Lavender Menace members 4T
    Daughters of Bilitis members 10T
    Bisexual feminists 76T
  • 8.

    Jim Fouratt
    American activist and entertainer
    Overview: Jim Fouratt (born 23 June 1941) is a gay rights activist, actor, and former nightclub impresario. He is best known for his involvement with the Stonewall riots and as co-founder of the Danceteria.
    Date of birth: 23 June 1945
    Age: 79
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    LGBT people from Rhode Island 24T
    Gay entertainers 195T
    Genderqueer people 69T
  • 9.

    Arthur Bell (journalist)
    American activist and journalist
    Arthur Bell (journalist)
    Overview: Arthur Bell (November 6, 1939 – June 2, 1984) was an American journalist, author and LGBT rights activist.
    Date of birth: 6 November 1939
    Date of death: 2 June 1984
    Age: 44 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    American gay writers 986T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,215T
    20th-century American male writers 9,084T
  • 10.

    Roz Kaveney
    British writer, critic, and poet (born 1949)
    Roz Kaveney
    Overview: Roz Kaveney (born 9 July 1949) is a British writer, critic, and poet, best known for her critical works about pop culture and for being a core member of the Midnight Rose collective. Kaveney's works include ...
    Date of birth: 9 July 1949
    Age: 75
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    British LGBT poets 15T
    British LGBT novelists 11T
    21st-century British women writers 848T
  • 11.

    Karla Jay
    American feminist
    Overview: Karla Jay (born February 22, 1947) is a distinguished professor emerita at Pace University, where she taught English and directed the women's and gender studies program between 1974 and 2009. A pioneer ...
    Date of birth: 22 February 1947
    Age: 78
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Lavender Menace members 4T
    American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
    Lesbian academics 74T
  • 12.

    Angela Lynn Douglas
    Transsexual activist and musician
    Overview: Angela Lynn Douglas was an American transgender activist and singer. She was a transgender woman who performed as a rock musician and was a prominent figure in transgender activism during the 1970s. She ...
    Date of death: 2007
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  • 13.

    Sam Green (councillor)
    Psychiatric nurse and Liberal politician
    Overview: Sam Green was an openly gay psychiatric nurse and Liberal politician who was elected as a member of Durham City Council in 1972. He has been described as the first openly gay councillor in England and ...
    Occupation: Activist
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  • 14.

    Charles Pitts (broadcaster)
    American radio personality and activist (1941-2015)
    Charles Pitts (broadcaster)
    Overview: Charles Pitts (1941-2015) was an American gay activist and radio personality. He co-hosted The New Symposium on New York City's WBAI from 1968 to 1969, the first weekly public radio program to offer an ...
    Date of birth: 1941
    Date of death: 2015
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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  • 15.

    Allen Young (writer)
    American journalist
    Allen Young (writer)
    Overview: Allen Young (born June 30, 1941) is an American journalist, author, editor and publisher who is also a social, political and environmental activist.
    Date of birth: 30 June 1941
    Age: 83
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T
    American male journalists 4,321T
    American anti–Vietnam War activists 252T
  • 16.

    Mark Segal
    Gay activist
    Overview: Mark Allan Segal (born 1951) is an American journalist. He participated in the Stonewall riots and was one of the original founders of the Gay Liberation Front where he created its Gay Youth program. He ...
    Date of birth: 1951
    Age: 73
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    American male journalists 4,321T
    LGBT people from Pennsylvania 190T
    LGBT journalists from the United States 206T
  • 17.

    Arthur Evans (author)
    American writer
    Overview: Arthur Scott Evans (October 12, 1942 – September 11, 2011) was an early gay rights advocate and author, best known for his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. Politically active in New ...
    Date of birth: 12 October 1942
    Date of death: 11 September 2011
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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  • 18.
    Overview: N. A. Diaman (known as Nikos Diaman born Nickolas Anthony Diaman) November 1, 1936—November 7, 2020 was a gay American novelist and artist. He received a BA in 1958 from the University of Southern Ca ...
    Date of birth: 1 November 1936
    Age: 88
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    American people of Greek descent 1,066T
    LGBT writers from the United States 1,691T
    Gay writers 1,879T
  • 19.

    Jim Toy
    LGBT activist and educator
    Jim Toy
    Overview: James W. Toy (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) was a long-time LGBT activist, considered a pioneer among LGBT activists in Michigan.
    Date of birth: 29 April 1930
    Date of death: 1 January 2022
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    University of Michigan School of Social Work alumni 22T
    Activists from New York City 295T
    Activists from Michigan 30T
  • 20.

    Bob Mellors
    British gay rights activist
    Overview: Bob Mellors (1950 – 24 March 1996) was a British gay rights activist.
    Date of birth: 1950
    Date of death: 24 March 1996
    Age: 45 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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    Deaths by stabbing in Poland 5T
    LGBT writers from England 339T
    1996 deaths 6,047T
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