Sherwin Wine

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January 25, 1928 – July 21, 2007

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of the Birmingham Temple  and the Humanistic Judaism movement, hosted a monthly gathering of closeted gay professionals called the First Sunday Group that provided discreet financial support to more public LGBTQ activism in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

New York Times, July 25, 2007

Sherwin T. Wine papers at the Bentley Historical Library

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  1. In the early 1980s, Rabbi Wine also organized a support group for bisexual men who were married to women. Meetings were held at his apartment in Birmingham, MI.

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