Tobin, Kay

LC control no.	no2004002034
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Tobin, Kay *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Lahusen, Kay Tobin Lahusen, Katherine, 1930-2021
Located	Kennett Square (Pa.)
Birth date	1930-01-05
Death date	2021-05-26
Place of birth	Cincinnati (Ohio)
Place of death	West Chester (Pa.)
Field of activity	Gay liberation movement Photography
Affiliation	Daughters of Bilitis Gay Activists Alliance
Profession or occupation	Gay activists Photographers
Found in	The gay crusaders, c1972: t.p. (Kay Tobin) Daring to find our names, 1998: p. 249, etc. (Kay Tobin Lahusen) Wikipedia, Sept. 4, 2008 (Kay Lahusen; b. January 5, 1930; also known as Kay Tobin) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 28, 2021 (in obituary dated May 27, 2021: Kay Lahusen, a gay rights activist who chronicled the movement's earliest days through her photography and writing, died May 26 in West Chester, Pa. She was 91. With her partner, the late activist Barbara Gittings, Ms. Lahusen advocated for gay civil rights years before the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York helped launch the modern gay rights era. She captured widely published images of some of the nation's first protests. Lahusen and Gittings had met in 1961 at a picnic held by Daughters of Bilitis, the first known lesbian organization in the United States and whose East Coast chapter Gittings had founded. Ms. Lahusen was arts editor and shot groundbreaking cover photos of gay women for the group's national publication, the Ladder. Ms. Lahusen also was a founding member of the Gay Activists Alliance and photographed that group's protests. Under the pseudonym Kay Tobin, she co-wrote a 1972 book, "The Gay Crusaders," which profiled the movement's early leaders. Katherine Lahusen was born in Cincinnati on Jan. 5, 1930. Ms. Lahusen spent her later years in a retirement home in Kennett Square)
Associated language	eng