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- Birth nameKatherine Lahusen
- Kay Tobin-Lahusen was born on January 5, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She is known for Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders (2026), The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) and After Stonewall (1999). She died on May 26, 2021 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Life partner of Barbara Gittings.
- She was a gay-rights activist and photojournalist. She advocated for gay civil rights years before the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York, and took widely-published photos of some of the USA's earliest protests.
- Met her life partner Barbara Gittings at a Daughters Of Bilitis picnic in 1961.
- Her life partner, Barbara Gittings, was one of the nation's most prominent lesbian activists. Both women were active in the campaign that led to the American Psychiatric Association's decision to drop homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973.
- Graduated from Ohio State University.
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