Pioneering Gay Rights Activist Ruth Simpson Dies at 82
Bilerico May 12 08
Ruth Simpson, author and gay rights activist since the 1960's, died May 8 in Woodstock, New York. After several years of, as she said, "sampling an assortment of illnesses on the palette of old age," she finally succumbed to her breathing difficulties at the age of 82.
Ruth is the daughter of Ethel and Edward Simpson, two prominent leaders of the early labor union in Cleveland, Ohio. A veteran of rallies and strike violence by the age of 12, she earned her place in GLBT history by heading the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, founding the country's first lesbian community center and facing down the New York policemen who tried to close it. Full story...
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