The late psychiatrist Dr. John Fryer will be celebrated May 2, the 50th anniversary of his speech — delivered anonymously — at the American Psychiatric Association's conference.
The late psychiatrist Dr. John Fryer will be celebrated May 2, the 50th anniversary of his speech — delivered anonymously — at the American Psychiatric Association’s conference.
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Kay Tobin Lahusen, Gay Rights Activist and Photographer, Dies at 91
She and her partner, Barbara Gittings, were on the front lines long before Stonewall, and Ms. Lahusen photographed protests during the movement’s earliest days.
The photographer and activist Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, at a gay rights demonstration in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1967. She and her partner, Barbara Gittings, helped organize a number of protests in the 1960s.Credit.Associated Press
May 27, 2021
Kay Tobin Lahusen, a prominent gay rights activist whose photographs documented the movement’s earliest days and depicted lesbians who were out when they were virtually absent from popular culture, died on Wednesday in West Chester, Pa. She was 91.