May 30, 1952 – November 6, 1999
Virgil Julius “Tony” Leone was born in Detroit and graduated with the class of 1970 from Mt. Pleasant High School. At Central Michigan University, he was an early member of Gay Liberation, serving as its president in the mid-1970s. Leone later moved to San Francisco where he worked as a Registered Nurse and became involved in local HIV/AIDS activism. He died from AIDS-related complications at age 47.
Michigan LGBTQ Remember 
Virgil was a courageous inspiration to those in a movement so terribly unpopular in the early 1970s. Some said he was physically harmed for his efforts to free LGBT people. He was the most unforgettable student I attended college with.
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