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Jack Nichols
The 60's were
a turbulent period, as many people say. War protests, Civil Rights
Movement, presidential assassination... One movement may never had
fully came into being, if it were not for Jack Nichols, though. That
movement, the Gay and Lesbian rights movement. This was at a time in
history when the federal government refused to hire Gay/Lesbian people,
Psychiatrists considered them mentally ill and many states legally
banned gay/lesbian congregations in bars and nightclubs.
Mr. Nichols took part in planning the first organized Gay and Lesbian
rights protests in Philadelphia, New York and Washington DC. The first
of which was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1965.
Jack Nichols also co-founded the Washington DC and Florida Mattachine
Societies in 1961 and 1965. August of 1963, Jack and 9 other members of
the DC Mattachine Society openly participated in the civil rights
"March on Washington" at the Lincoln Memorial. Nichols also helped
organize the very first Gay and Lesbian rights portest at the White
House on April 17, 1965. He was also the first person to ever challenge
the American Psychiactric Association's classification of homosexuality
as a mental illness. CBS' Mike Wallace would also interview Jack
Nichols in 1967, as the first documentary of a homosexual on CBS.
Nichols and his life partner, Lige Clark edited GAY, America's first
Gay/Lesbian newspaper and wrote many books on the subject. From 1997 to
his death Nichols also editted GayToday.com.
Jack Nichols died May 2, 2005.
Click Here For The Site He Edited
