http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/01/29/d-c-gay-bathhouse-pioneer-david-harris-dies/ the gay community's news source Tue, 21 May 2013 16:23:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/01/29/d-c-gay-bathhouse-pioneer-david-harris-dies/#comment-433 Mark Meinke Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:15 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=1870#comment-433 David Harris’s life had important connections with Dr. Franklin Kameny and with the establishment of social spaces for the city’s gay male community. During Dr. Kameny’s 1971 campaign for DC’s first congressional seat David Harris was a major contributor of funds for the campaign. Harris was one of the very small set of gay entrepreneurs, which included Donn Culver, Bill Oates, Bill Bricker, H Lynn Womack, Henry Hecht, Judy Winsett and Leslie Reeves, Allen Carroll and Chris Jansen, who created in the late 1960s and early 1970s social spaces for the community. Like H Linn Womack, who set new precedents in obscenity law, Harris became a focal point for a gay community working to rein in decades-long police harassment.

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