SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Barbara Gittings

1932 - 2007

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Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007) was an American activist for LGBT equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) from 1958 to 1963, 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 by the largest employer in the US at that time: the United States government. Her early experiences with trying to learn more about lesbianism fueled her lifetime work with libraries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Gittings has received more than 231,965 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Gittings is the 730th most popular social activist, the 1,207th most popular biography from Austria and the 6th most popular Austrian Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Barbara Gittings ranks 730 out of 840. Before her are Inez Milholland, Roman Protasevich, Cenk Uygur, Kumi Naidoo, Karla Avelar, and Lina Ben Mhenni. After her are Gauri Lankesh, Alexandra Shevchenko, Veronika Tsepkalo, Hector Pieterson, Zakia Zaki, and Irom Chanu Sharmila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Barbara Gittings ranks 577. Before her are Pete Domenici, Julie Bennett, Fritz Klein, Bob Said, Dick Garmaker, and Zell Miller. After her are Ivor Richard, Ted Nash, Derek Ibbotson, Prithipal Singh, John Murtha, and Bill Byrge. Among people deceased in 2007, Barbara Gittings ranks 426. Before her are Diego Corrales, Cyprian Ekwensi, Thomas Eagleton, Barbara McNair, Maria Cioncan, and Derek Dougan. After her are Zakia Zaki, Bob Woolmer, Luther Ingram, Alemão, U;Nee, and Óscar Sánchez.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Barbara Gittings ranks 1,207 out of 1,424. Before her are Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (1983), Sybille Bammer (1980), Bernhard Kohl (1982), Jakob Jantscher (1989), Guido Burgstaller (1989), and Michael Walchhofer (1975). After her are Thomas Forstner (1969), Martin Koch (1982), Christoph Baumgartner (1999), Fritz Strobl (1972), Klaus Sulzenbacher (1965), and Zoë (1996).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Austria

Among social activists born in Austria, Barbara Gittings ranks 6. Before her are Alfred Hermann Fried (1864), Bertha Pappenheim (1859), Maria Altmann (1916), Diana Budisavljević (1891), and Marianne Hainisch (1839).

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