David R. Ksler, MD, was the first elected print of the San Fran-cis–based gay doctors group—Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights (BAPHR)—om 1978 to
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David Rudolph Ksler, who beme the first openly gay psychiatrist at UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospal back the 1970s.
Ksler wrote that he was spired by Harvey Milk to e out 1978 durg a Langley Porter Instute grand round, beg the first such openly gay faculty member on the mp.
Milk, the first gay man elected to office San Francis 1977, served 11 months on the Board of Supervisors before beg assassated by disgntled ex-supervisor Dan Whe on November 27, 1978. Ksler had other notable firsts, he wrote, cludg beg elected print of the natn's first gay doctors' group, Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights (1978-1980), and then the first elected print of the natnal gay uc of Members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (1980-1982). He served on many boards, cludg the Natnal Gay Task Force (now the Natnal LGBTQ Task Force) and the NAMES Project, which oversaw the AIDS Memorial Quilt.