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Lesbian pioneer dead at 82 |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Ruth Simpson, author and gay rights
activist since the 1960’s, died May 8 in Woodstock,
New York. After several years of,
as she said, “sampling an assortment of illnesses on the palette of old
age,” she succumbed to breathing difficulties at the age of 82.
Simpson earned her place in GLBT history by heading the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis; and founding
the USA’s first ever lesbian
community centre and facing down the New
York policemen who tried to close it.
She also authored From the
Closet to the Courts, a first-hand account of lesbian life and activism.
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