Heather MacAllister

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February 25, 1968 – February 13, 2007

Heather MacAllister was a staffer for the Triangle Foundation in the 1990s.  She later moved to San Francisco where she founded Big Burlesque, the original Fat Bottom Revue.  Suffering from ovarian cancer, she died by assisted suicide at age 38.

Bay Area Reporter, February 22, 2007

Between The Lines, February 22, 2007

Lesbian Connection, May/June 2007

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