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David Mixner, the activist and political strategist who lobbied — and protested — political figures in the movement for LGBTQ equality, died on Monday. He was 77.
Mixner suffered from complications from long Covid, a friend, Steven Guy, told The New York Times.
Mixner also was a playwright, having recounted his decades of activism in a series of plays, including Oh Hell No!, which he performed in New York, Los Angeles and other cities in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and later 1969 and Who Fell Into the Outhouse? The stagings, benefitting major LGBTQ organizations, featured Mixner recalling his early years of rural poverty, his involvement in protests of the Vietnam war, his experiences coming out, living through the AIDS crisis and his support and break with longtime friend Bill Clinton when the then-president failed to end a prohibition on gays and lesbians in the military.
Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, said in a statement, “David Mixner changed the world forever and equality would not be where it is today without his leadership, passion, and immense heart and humor. David was a beloved mentor to me and so many other LGBTQ leaders, always pushing for more for our community. He dedicated his life to our community and now we must strive to live up to his legacy.”
Mixner had been attending the University of Maryland when he dropped out and began working for the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator seeking the presidency in 1968 on an anti-war platform. He attended the Democratic Convention that year, when, in the ensuing police riot, he was beaten as authorities went after demonstrators with their nightsticks. “I remember going into a fetal position and feeling the blows of the billy
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Editor’s Note: This in-depth interview with David Mixner, who passed away on Monday, March 11, 2024, at the age of 77, originally appeared in the issue of July 29, 2004. Photography by Todd Franson.“You want a soundbite?”David Mixner grins.“I’ll give you a soundbite. I’m a man who’s devoted forty years of his life — sometimes at great validation and sometimes at great pain — to the struggle for freedom and human rights.“You know, when I was a child growing up,” he continues, “we didn’t have television, but we got Life magazine.
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