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Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007) was a prominent American activist for LGBT equality.
Mar 15, 2007 · Barbara Gittings, a prominent gay rights activist who a decade before the Stonewall rebellion of 1969 was agitating for the rights of lesbians and gay men, died on Feb. 18 at her home in...
Gittings was co-Grand Marshall of the 1997 New York City Gay Pride Parade where she was declared a “Mother of Lesbian and Gay Liberation." In 2001, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) bestowed to her the first “Barbara Gittings Award” for Activism.
Jun 3, 2019 · Barbara Gittings was unafraid. The iconic lesbian activist lived her life trying to make things better for the LGBTQ community in a time when being open and visible didn’t come easy.
Mar 5, 2020 · Barbara Gittings is one of the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the last century. Find out why TIME chose Barbara Gittings as one of the 100...
Feb 18, 2007 · Barbara Gittings is widely regarded as the mother of the LGBT civil rights movement. In the 1950s gay activism was in its infancy. “There were scarcely 200 of us in the whole United States,” Gittings said of her fellow crusaders.
Barbara Gittings interviewed by Jonathan Ned Katz in 1974 about her development as a Lesbian, and about the founding and early history of the New York Daughters of Bilitis.
Introduction. Barbara Gittings was born in 1932 in Vienna, where her father was a member of the United States diplomatic service; she, a brother, and a sister attended Catholic schools in Montreal, Canada. Her family returned permanently to the United States at the start of World War II.
Barbara Gittings, known to some as the “Mother of the Gay Rights Movement,” was one of the earliest lesbian activists in America. Gittings grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, before moving to Philadelphia in 1950 where she joined the Homophile Movement.
Mar 14, 2024 · Barbara Gittings is considered one of the pioneers of LGBTQ+ rights and women's rights movements. In the 1960s, the activist fought against employment discrimination and...
