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Barbara Gittings (1932-2007)

Philadelphia County · dedicated 2016 · 21st & Locust Sts., Philadelphia

Known as the mother of the LGBT civil rights movement, Gittings, who lived here, edited The Ladder, the first wide-spread lesbian journal. She led initiatives to promote LGBT literature in libraries and to remove homosexuality's classification as a mental illness.

Leiden University Libraries

Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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