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- Birth nameBarbara Brooks Gittings
- Barbara Gittings was born on July 31, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. She died on February 18, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Founder of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first national organization for lesbians.
- Partner of Kay Tobin-Lahusen.
- Helped lobby the American Psychiatric Association to change its stance on homosexuality from a mental disorder.
- Was the head of the American Library Association's Gay Task Force, now known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table.
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