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Kay Tobin Lahusen, pioneering lesbian & gay rights activist, dies at 91

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Kay Tobin Lahusen, a pioneering lesbian and gay rights activist who captured the movement’s earliest days in her photography and writing, has died.

She was 91. Known as the first U.S. photojournalist to identify as a lesbian, Lahusen died Wednesday at Chester County Hospital outside Philadelphia, following a brief illness.

Together with her long time partner, the late activist Barbara Gittings, Lahusen advocated for gay and lesbian civil rights years before the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City.

Lahusen’s widely published images chronicled some of the United States’ first LGBTQ equality protests. Lahusen “was the first photojournalist in our community,” Mark Segal, a friend of more than 50 years and founder and publisher of the

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