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Marvin Liebman

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Marvin Liebman · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Conservative political organizer who later became a gay-rights advocate.

When

1923, Brooklyn, New York, USA — 1997, Washington, D.C., USA

Where

United States

Biography

Marvin Liebman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Conservative political organizer who later became a gay-rights advocate.

How & why

Marvin Liebman was an influential American conservative organizer and fundraiser, co-founder of Young Americans for Freedom and the American Conservative Union, who in 1990 publicly came out as gay and spent his final years as an advocate for gay and lesbian rights. He was raised in Brooklyn by Ashkenazi Jewish parents from Galicia and was bar mitzvahed in 1936.

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Source: Wikipedia — Marvin Liebman

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Conservative political organizer who later became a gay-rights advocate.

Source: Wikipedia — Marvin Liebman