Barbara Gittings
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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...
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Portion of “Pride and Progress” mural by Ann Northrup that depicts a poster which itself depicts part of the Annual Reminder picket held in 1966. In the poster, Gittings is the woman in the light gray dress behind the part of the banner that says JULY; her sign says SUPPORT HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL RIGHTS.
Barbara Gittings at UCLA on November 17, 2006.Awards 1
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Wendell FordAlso won American Library Association Honorary Membership
Henriette AvramAlso won American Library Association Honorary Membership
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Claiborne PellAlso won American Library Association Honorary Membership
William O. DouglasAlso won American Library Association Honorary Membership
Edward Everett HaleAlso won American Library Association Honorary MembershipAbout this person
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.
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