Madeline Davis

Madeline Davis

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1940 -

Occupation

Activist

Description

Founding member of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier and later President. Active Democratic Party member and party activist for LGBTQ inclusion. Founding member of HAG Theater, the first all-lesbian theater company in the US. In 2001 founded the GLBT Archives of Western New York. Member, The Advocate magazine Hall of Fame (2012).

See Also

• LGBTQ Librarians and Archivists
• Hall of Famers Who Identify as LGBTQ

Further Reading/Research

• http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/160607418/in-1972-davis-blazed-party-trail-on-gay-rights
• http://www.buffalospree.com/buffalospreemagazine/archives/2000_0708/070800gayinbuffalo.html

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