# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-leitsch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:11:20.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-leitsch"
name: "Dick Leitsch"
slug: "dick-leitsch"
description: "Richard Joseph Leitsch, also known as Richard Valentine Leitsch and more commonly Dick Leitsch, was an American LGBT rights activist. He was president of gay rights group the Mattachine Society in the 1960s. He conceptualized and led the \"Sip-In\" at Julius' Bar, one of the earliest acts of gay civil disobedience in the United States, LGBT activists used \"sip-ins\" to attempt to gain the legal right to drink in bars in New York. He was also known for being the first gay reporter to publish an account of the Stonewall Riots and the first person to interview Bette Midler in print media."
tagline: "American activist (1935–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Leitsch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1935-05-11"
deathDate: "2018-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.677142666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Dick Leitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Leitsch"
    title: "Dick Leitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86"
    title: "دیک لایچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Leitsch"
    title: "Dick Leitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Leitsch"
    title: "Dick Leitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Leitsch"
    title: "Dick Leitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28836844"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump