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Arnie Kantrowitz (1940–2022), early LGBTQ rights activist
04.02.2022 - 20:13 / legacy.com
Arnie Kantrowitz was a pioneer of LGBTQ civil rights activism and one of the founders of GLAAD.Kantrowitz got involved with the gay rights movement shortly after the 1969 Stonewall riots that marked the movement’s birth. In 1970, he joined the Gay Activists Alliance, becoming the organization’s vice president. As an English professor at the College of Staten Island, Kantrowitz created one of the first gay studies courses in higher education in 1973.
He later became the chairman of the college’s English department. In 1986, Kantrowitz was among the founders of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He wrote the 1977 memoir “Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay,” one of the first LGBTQ activists’ memoirs.
He also wrote the 2005 biography “Walt Whitman: Gay and Lesbian Writers,” as well as publishing a number of essays in newspapers, magazines, and books. Kantrowitz was elected grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pride parade in 2009. “If a black skin, a Jewish prayer shawl and a woman’s labor are American, then so are two women holding hands or two men kissing.
The emergence of gay affection as an accepted fact of American life—surrounded though we may be by the glorification of heterosexual relationships, which are reinforced by the state, the church, the media, our own families—is simply one more element of variety in America’s national identity.” —from Kantrowitz’ 1973 essay “We Are Already Your Children” for the New York TimesArnie Kantrowitz’s activism paved the way for the growing visibility, protections, and acceptance of the LGBTQ community that we see today. https://t.co/0awtB0ADIMGMHC is saddened by the passing of Arnold (Arnie) Kantrowitz, a renowned activist for LGBTQ+ equality. Arnie was
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