October marks LGBT History Month, Coming Out Day

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October marks LGBT History Month, Coming Out Day

by Anthony Glassman

http://www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories10/october/1008104.htm

Alan Turing. Richard Bruce Nugent. Eleanor Roosevelt. Leslie Feinberg.

These are just four of the hundreds of thousands of names that people should keep in mind in October, both for LGBT History Month and for National Coming Out Day.

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Leslie Feinberg is an award-winning author, LGBT activist and prominent member of the Workers World Party, a prominent American Communist party that has anti-bigotry and affirmative action as some of its central tenets.

Known for such groundbreaking works as Stone Butch Blues, Drag King Dreams and Transgender Warriors, Feinberg has become a photographer since falling ill in 2008.