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1973

1973-10-03Dr. Howard Brown comes out as gay

Dr. Howard Brown, a former Commissioner of Health for New York City, comes out in a speech to several hundred doctors at a symposium in New Jersey. Such a revelation by a public figure was still very rare in 1973, and Brown’s coming out later becomes a front-page story in the New York Times.

 

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