# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-gittings
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:32:23.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-gittings"
name: "Barbara Gittings"
slug: "barbara-gittings"
description: "Barbara Gittings was an American LGBTQ activist. She started the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in 1958, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the ban on employment of gay people in the United States government, the largest employer of the country at the time. In the 1970s, Gittings was most involved in the American Library Association, especially its Task Force on Gay Liberation, in order to promote positive literature about homosexuality in libraries. She was a part of the movement to get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality as a mental illness in the early 1970s."
tagline: "American librarian, LGBT rights activist (1932–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Gittings_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1932-07-31"
deathDate: "2007-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.18
  momentum:             4.415204678362573
  historical:           14.73765866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1040122/"
    handle:    "nm1040122"
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    title: "Барбара Гитингс"
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    title: "Barbara Gittings"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump