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David Mixner Dies: LGBTQ Activist Who Pressed And Persuaded Ronald Reagan And Bill Clinton On Civil Rights Was 77
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The stagings, benefitting major LGBTQ organizations, featured Mixner recalling his early years of rural poverty, his involvement in protests of the Vietnam war, his experiences coming out, living through the AIDS crisis and his support and break with longtime friend Bill Clinton when the then-president failed to end a prohibition on gays and lesbians in the military. Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, said in a statement, “David Mixner changed the world forever and equality would not be where it is today without his leadership, passion, and immense heart and humor. Mixner continued to pursue political organizing, moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s, when he worked on the campaign of Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.
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