Barbara Gittings, Activist for LGBTQ Equality
Posted by Karen Galle on Nov 25, 2020 in | Comments Off on Barbara Gittings, Activist for LGBTQ Equality Barbara Gittings was one of the leading activists for LGBTQ equality, from the early years of the gay rights movement in the late 1950s until her death in 2007. Born in Austria in 1932 and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, she grew up feeling disconnected from her peers in a time when homosexuality was taboo in American society. She attended college in Chicago where she was called a lesbian. When...read more