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FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Kay Tobin Lahusen poses for a photograph with a portrait of her late partner Barbara Gittings, in Kennett Square, Pa. Lahusen, a pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movement s earliest days through her photography and writing, has died. She was 91. Known as the first openly gay photojournalist, Lahusen died Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at Chester County Hospital outside Philadelphia following a brief illness, according to Founds Funeral Home. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) May 27, 2021 - 12:02 PM
Kay Lahusen, a pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movementâs earliest days through her photography and writing, has died. She was 91.
Photojournalist, gay rights pioneer Kay Lahusen dies at 91
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Kay Lahusen, a pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movement’s earliest days through her photography and writing, has died. She was 91.
Known as the first openly gay U.S. photojournalist, Lahusen died Wednesday at Chester County Hospital outside Philadelphia, following a brief illness.
Together with her partner, the late activist Barbara Gittings, Lahusen advocated for gay civil rights years before the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York helped launch the modern LGBTQ era. She captured widely published images of some of the nation’s first protests.
Photojournalist, gay rights pioneer Kay Lahusen dies at 91
MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press
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1of5FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Kay Lahusen poses for a photograph in Kennett Square, Pa. Lahusen, a pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movement s earliest days through her photography and writing, has died. She was 91. Known as the first openly gay photojournalist, Lahusen died Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at Chester County Hospital outside Philadelphia following a brief illness, according to Founds Funeral Home.Matt Rourke/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5FILE- In this July 4, 1967, file photo, Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, and other demonstrators carry signs calling for protection of homosexuals from discrimination as they march in a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Lahusen, a pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movement s earliest days through her photography and writing died Wednesday, May 26, 20
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