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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 18 > Ruth Simpson a leader in gay-liberation effort

Ruth Simpson a leader in gay-liberation effort

By Elaine Woo / The Bulletin
May 18, 2008

Ruth Simpson, a leader in the gay-liberation movement who wrote a well-regarded critique of social and political attitudes toward lesbians in the 1970s, died May 8, in Woodstock, N.Y., after a series of illnesses. She was 82.

Simpson became prominent in 1970, when she led the New York chapter of....

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