If any of you have already read Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War: The Homosexuals vs. the United States of America, or are longtime residents of the DMV, then the name Lilli Vincenz should already be familiar to you. (She figures prominently in Chapter 12 of Cervini's book.) The longtime gay rights activist devoted some six decades to the cause, beginning with her first courageous pickets alongside Frank Kameny in Washington, D.C., in the 1960s, and continuing into her later years, when she acted as a keeper of the history that she and other activists made. Ms. Vincenz died on June 27 at the age of 85; here are obituaries from the Washington Post, Washington Blade and New York Times.
By the way, in case you were wondering, we will (finally) start reading The Deviant's War and James Kerchick's Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington this fall. Due to their bulk, we'll treat them as third-Wednesday selections and read a few chapters at a time.
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