Gay Rights Activist, Teleidoscope Inventor John Burnside Dead at 91

[Shana A]

Gay Rights Activist, Teleidoscope Inventor John Burnside Dead at 91

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid61818.asp

John Burnside, noted gay rights activist, partner of the late gay rights pioneer Harry Hay, and the inventor of a kaleidoscope-like device called the teleidoscope, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco. He was 91.

Burnside has recently been diagnosed with spongioblastoma brain cancer, longtime friend Joey Cain told the Los Angeles Times. His life partner, Hay, died in 2002 at the age of 90.