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DICK LESCH, WHOSE ‘SIP-IN’ WAS A TONE FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, DI AT 83
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Isay, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and gay-rights advote who did not adm to himself that he was gay until he was 40, married, and a father, and who won a pched battle to persua his own profsn to stop treatg homosexualy as a disease, died on Thursday Manhattan. Jack Drcher, a trag and supervisg analyst at the William Alanson Whe Instute New York and the thor of ‘‘Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man.
It was somethg to be cured therapy, and openly gay profsnals were barred om trag as analysts at stutns accreded by the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn, the olst US profsnal group for analysts and one of the most fluential, wh many trag stut and affiliated his reer, Dr.
By then, he had a wife, the former Jane Franzbl, and two a time, he lived as a closeted gay man, but he worked wh gay patients — helpg them to accept themselv — and began wrg about the ia that homosexualy was normal, not an illns or a matter of arrted did not tell his wife until 1980 that he was gay.
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They stayed married for another ne years to keep their fay together, and they kept his sexualy a secret om their Isay ntued to prent his ias at profsnal meetgs, where he acknowledged that he was gay.
‘‘I thk he was hurt very badly by many lleagu, ’’ Drcher the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn stopped classifyg homosexualy as a disease 1973, many members ntued to regard as an illns.
Isay tried reasong, badgerg, and other forms of persuasn for about 15 years, but they held 1992, backed by the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, he threatened a lawsu to force the associatn to promise not to discrimate agast gay people.
NEW YORK — Dr. Richard A. Isay, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and gay-rights advote who did not adm to himself that he was gay until he was 40, married, and a father, and who won a pched battle to persua his own profsn to stop treatg homosexualy as a disease, died Thursday Manhattan. He was 77. * gay richard from intervention *
Dick Lesch, who beme a leadg gay rights activist 1960s New York, where he helped end police entrapment of gays and anized the first major act of civil disobedience by a gay rights group — a boozy s- known as the Sip-In — died June 22 at a hospice center Manhattan. Lesch was a self-scribed “hick om Kentucky who didn’t known anythg about gay rights” when he followed a boyiend to New York 1959.
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He soon beme a member and young lear of the Mattache Society, an early gay advocy group named after a group of medieval jters who, disguised by masks, protted the opprsn of Lesch rarely donned a mask himself. Ldsay, mpaigns that drew on the tactics of the Ain Amerin civil rights movement and beme a mol for other gay rights groups across the that pre-Stonewall era, a few years before an uprisg at a Greenwich Village gay bar galvanized a broar prott movement for equaly and acceptance, few gays ed their name or showed their face on televisn.