Stuart Timmons, thor of 'Gay L.A.' and noted LGBT historian, di at 60 - Los Angel Tim

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• MATTHEW TIMMONS WIKI, GIRLIEND, MARRIED, FAY, AGE, GAY
• STUART TIMMONS, THOR OF ‘GAY L.A.’ AND NOTED LGBT HISTORIAN, DI AT 60
• IS MATTHEW KANE GAY

MATTHEW TIMMONS WIKI, GIRLIEND, MARRIED, FAY, AGE, GAY

However, Matthew was once mored to be a gay which he later nied. Further, he also wrote, “Everybody’s gay every once a while.

But, later he tweeted that he is not gay but a lbian. Stuart Timmons, a journalist, activist and thory on the role of gays and lbians Los Angel history, has died.

Timmons, who suffered a bilatg stroke ne years ago but remaed active the muny, died Saturday, his sister Gay Timmons said. She mented that earlier terview on the fluence of Timmons’ book, “Gay LA.

STUART TIMMONS, THOR OF ‘GAY L.A.’ AND NOTED LGBT HISTORIAN, DI AT 60

Timmons was bt known as the thor of two books on gay history. Wh Lillian Farman, he -wrote “Gay L. : A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Polics, and Lipstick Lbians” (2006), which trac more than 200 years of gay and lbian life Los Angel, begng wh Spanish missnari’ enunters wh cross-genred Native Amerins the late also wrote “The Trouble Wh Harry Hay” (1990), a bgraphy of the founr of the Mattache Society, the natn’s first gay polil anizatn, which was lnched Los Angel an terview before her ath last year, Jeanne Cordova, a longtime activist the Los Angel gay and lbian muny, lled Timmons “a great gay historian.

” She said his book wh Farman, “Gay L.

A., ” was “the most -pth look at the history and velopment of the gay liberatn movement Los Angel, the bt to be published so far. 14, 1957, Mneapolis, Timmons grew up the Bay Area, which along wh New York had long overshadowed Los Angel as a bastn of early gay activism.

IS MATTHEW KANE GAY

But the UCLA journalism graduate disvered that Los Angel, his home for three s, served more cred for s role the vanguard of the gay liberatn he and Farman noted their book, Los Angel was the se of many firsts gay history. In addn to the Mattache Society, the clu the Los Angel Gay and Lbian Center, the untry’s first major gay muny center; the Advote, the natn’s first gay magaze; and the Metropolan Communy Church, the largt LGBT-iendly church, wh 300 ngregatns 22 untri.

”The book, wrten what Timmons lled a “juicy but scholarly” style, also scribed a disturbance at a Los Angel doughnut shop equented by gays that may have been the first gay uprisg morn tim.

The cint at Cooper’s Donuts took place 1959, a full before the more famo Stonewall Rts New York Cy that are wily regard as the event that lnched the gay rights and Farman nducted 300 terviews for the book addn to examg old newspaper articl, police ledgers, letters and photographs. Much of the rearch was nducted at the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv, a major reposory of materials by and about gays and lbians, on the USC mp.