W. Dorr Legg

W. Dorr Legg

W. Dorr Legg (born William Dorr Lambert Legg 1904—July 26, 1994), was a landscape architect and one of the founders of the United States gay rights movement, then called the homophile movement.

The second child of Franc C. Dorr and Frank E. Legg, his older brother was Victor Eldred Legg and younger brother was Frank Evariste Legg, Jr.[1]

He trained as a landscape architect at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and from 1935 was professor of landscape architecture at Oregon State Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), but moved back to Michigan in the 1940s to care for his father and the family business.

In 1949 he moved to Los Angeles with his partner Merton Bird. In 1950 the couple founded Knights of the Clock, a support group for interracial gay couples. The couple actively joined the national Mattachine Society, but Legg later led a split to co-found ONE, Inc.. As publisher of the organization's journal, Legg was forced to sue the United States Postal Service to defend its right to be distributed through the US Mail. The case, One, Inc. v. Olesen (355 U.S. 371; 78 S. Ct. 364; 2 L. Ed. 2d 352; 1958) was pursued through appeals to a successful conclusion in 1958 before the United States Supreme Court. Legg traveled to Germany in the 1950s to recover the remains of the archives of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.

Legg died in Los Angeles on July 26, 1994 of natural causes.[2]

In 2011 the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association announced that Legg would be inducted into its hall of fame.[3]

External links

Notes

  1. ^ Dynes, Wayne R. (2002). Bullough, Vern L.. ed. Before Stonewall : activists for gay and lesbian rights in historical context. New York: Harrington Park. pp. 96. ISBN 1560231920. http://books.google.com/books?id=A7x_VnES2esC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=w.+dorr+legg&source=bl&ots=HF2QLXJaa2&sig=nD9-Ml6qvaum8A4bZsfHJ5Awv2s&hl=en&ei=hVKMTbmIL4O0sAOm6eXzCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=w.%20dorr%20legg&f=false. 
  2. ^ "Transitions". The Advocate: p. 21. 1994-09-06. http://books.google.com/books?id=HGMEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-28. 
  3. ^ Journalists Honored for Work in Media, Activism

Bibliography


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • ONE, Inc. — Cover of One magazine, April May 1956 ONE, Inc. was an early gay rights organization in the United States. The idea for a publication dedicated to homosexuals emerged from a Mattachine Society discussion meeting held on October 15, 1952. ONE… …   Wikipedia

  • ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives — ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is the oldest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBT materials in the world. Since 2010 ONE Archives has been a part of the… …   Wikipedia

  • ONE — ONE, Inc. Saltar a navegación, búsqueda ONE, Inc. fue una organización y una revista LGBT de Estados Unidos perteneciente al movimiento homófilo. La idea de una publicación dedicada a los homosexuales surgió en una reunión de la Mattachine… …   Wikipedia Español

  • ONE, Inc. — ONE, Inc. fue una organización y una revista LGBT de Estados Unidos perteneciente al movimiento homófilo. La idea de una publicación dedicada a los homosexuales surgió en una reunión de la Mattachine Society el 15 de octubre de 1952. Entre los… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Knights of the Clock — The Cloistered Order of Conclaved Knights of Sophisticracy,[1] more commonly known as the Knights of the Clock, was an interracial homophile social club based in Los Angeles, California. The Knights were founded by Merton Bird, an African… …   Wikipedia

  • Dale Jennings — For the English footballer, see Dale Jennings (footballer). William Dale Jennings (October 21, 1917 – May 11, 2000) was an American LGBT rights activist, playwright and author. Contents 1 Early life 2 The Mattachine Society 3 Arrest …   Wikipedia

  • Knights of the Clock — The Cloistered Order of Conclaved Knights of Sophisticracy («La orden enclaustrada de los caballeros del conclave de la sofisticracia»),[1] más comunmente conocidos como Knights of the Clock («Caballeros del reloj»), fue un club social homófilo… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Mattachine Society — U.S. homophile publication Mattachine Review, May 1959. The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was one of the earliest homophile organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago’s short lived Society for Human Rights (1924).… …   Wikipedia

  • Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon — Wedding of Martin and Lyon Dorothy Louise Taliaferro Del Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008)[1] and Phyllis Ann Lyon (born November 10, 1924) were an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay rights activists. They were a couple …   Wikipedia

  • Daughters of Bilitis — The Ladder was published by the Daughters of Bilitis from 1956 to 1972. This edition is from May 1964. The Daughters of Bilitis (/bɪˈliːtɨs/; DOB or, the Daughters), was the first lesbian rights organization in the United States. It was formed in …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”