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Stuart Timmons
American historian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stuart Timmons (January 14, 1957 ā January 28, 2017) was an American journalist, activist, and historian. He was an award-winning author specializing in LGBT history. He was the author of The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement and the co-author of Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians with Lillian Faderman. In 2007, Stuart began developing walking tours of LGBTQ historic sites in Los Angeles.
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Timmons was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] In 2008, he suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down.[2]
Timmons died on January 28, 2017 at a hospital in Hollywood, California from cardiac arrest, at the age of 60.[3]