Birth Name:

Barbara Gittings

Female

Birth Date:

Sun, Jul 31, 1932

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Age:

91

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

7°

Leo

60'

About Barbara Gittings

Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007) was a prominent American activist for LGBT equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963–66, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the ban on employment of gay people by the largest employer in the US at that time: the United States government. Her early experiences with trying to learn more about lesbianism fueled her lifetime work with libraries. In the 1970s, Gittings was most involved in the American Library Association, especially its gay caucus, the first such in a professional organization, in order to promote positive literature about homosexuality in libraries. She was a part of the movement to get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality as a mental illness in 1972. Her self-described life mission was to tear away the "shroud of invisibility" related to homosexuality, which had theretofore been associated with crime and mental illness.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Barbara Gittings at IMDb

• "Kay Lahusen and Barbara Gittings Digital Collection at the New York Public Library". NYPL Digital Gallery. Retrieved April 30, 2014.

• Barbara Gittings And Kay Tobin Lahusen Miscellany, 1965-1982, via Cornell University

• Special Collection #0003: The Barbara Gittings/Kay Tobin Lahusen Collection held by the John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center

• Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs, 1855-2009 (bulk 1963-2007), held by the Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Barbara Gittings

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Barbara Gittings: Sun 7 Leo, Moon 14 Cancer, Mercury 1 Virgo, Venus 0 Cancer, Mars 27 Gemini, Jupiter 27 Leo, Saturn 0 Aquarius, Uranus 23 Aries, Neptune 6 Virgo, Pluto 22 Cancer, Venus Conjunct Mars, Mercury Quincunx Saturn, Mercury Conjunct Jupiter, Mercury Conjunct Neptune, Sun Semi Sextile Neptune, Mercury Sextile Venus, Venus Sextile Jupiter, Venus Quincunx Saturn, Mars Sextile Jupiter, Mars Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Trine Uranus, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

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