SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Barbara Gittings

1932 - 2007

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Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Barbara Gittings is the 768th most popular social activist (down from 737th in 2024), the 1,221st most popular biography from Austria (down from 1,208th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Barbara Gittings ranks 768 out of 840. Before her are Salatyn Asgarova, Nils Muižnieks, Veronika Tsepkalo, Denis Kapustin, Parvin Ardalan, and Elisa Loncón. After her are Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Reyhaneh Jabbari, Aleta Baun, Alexandra Shevchenko, Enric Duran, and Ruhollah Zam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Barbara Gittings ranks 579. Before her are Bob Said, Al Arbour, Zell Miller, Harry Sinden, Julie Bennett, and Vic Crowe. After her are Pete Domenici, Derek Ibbotson, Prithipal Singh, John Murtha, and Ted Nash. Among people deceased in 2007, Barbara Gittings ranks 429. Before her are Charles Nelson Reilly, Maria Cioncan, Diego Corrales, Seung-Hui Cho, Barbara McNair, and U;Nee. After her are Thomas Eagleton, Luther Ingram, Derek Dougan, Alemão, David Vanole, and Bob Woolmer.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Barbara Gittings ranks 1,221 out of 1,424. Before her are Barbara Paulus (1970), Walter Kogler (1967), Susanne Riess (1961), Robert Pecl (1965), Christoph Leitgeb (1985), and Christoph Baumgartner (1999). After her are Manfred Zsak (1964), Götz Spielmann (1961), Gerald Glatzmayer (1968), Harald Cerny (1973), Heinz Lindner (1990), and Helmut Mayer (1966).

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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), Diana Budisavljević (1891), Maria Altmann (1916), and Marianne Hainisch (1839).

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