Barbara Gittings

(1932–2007) Journalist United States

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Barbara Gittings was a journalist from the United States, best known for Gays in library land.

Quick Facts About Barbara Gittings

Born: July 31, 1932
Died: February 18, 2007
Nationality: United States
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Gays in library land

About Barbara Gittings

Barbara Gittings was an American LGBTQ activist. She started the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in 1958, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, 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 in the United States government, the largest employer of the country at the time. In the 1970s, Gittings was most involved in the American Library Association, especially its Task Force on Gay Liberation, 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 the early 1970s.

Biography source: Wikipedia