Don Kilhefner is an
LGBTQ rights
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Nota ...
activist, community organizer, and
Jungian
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psychologist living in
West Hollywood
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History
Most historical writings about West Hollywood be ...
,
California
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.
He founded and co-founded multiple gay organizations, including the
Radical Faeries
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, the LA Community Services Center (now the
Los Angeles LGBT Center
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), and the Van Ness Recovery House.
Personal life
Kilhefner was born March 3, 1938, in
Ephrata,
Pennsylvania
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He finished high school and enrolled
Millersville University
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, where he majored in history.
His attained his first master's degree, in
African American History
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, from
Howard University
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.
After completing college he taught German and world history in high school for a year in suburban Wilmington. He was one of the first to volunteer for the Peace Corps in 1962.
He spent three years of his life living in Ethiopia, while teaching secondary school history.
References
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American expatriates in Ethiopia
21st-century American psychologists
Howard University alumni
American LGBTQ rights activists
Millersville University of Pennsylvania alumni
1938 births
People from Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Living people
Radical Faeries members
20th-century American psychologists
Founders of modern pagan movements
American founders
American modern pagans