Gay rights pioneer Joe Norton to be remembered in Albany

From TimesUnion.com: ALBANY — A celebration is planned Sunday to recall the life of Joseph Norton, a former psychology professor, World War II veteran and leading figure in Albany’s gay rights movement. Norton, a Cobleskill native and longtime city resident, died Wednesday. He was 92. In 1970, Norton was among a group of men who — in the wake of the gay rights protests that flared in New York City a year earlier — coalesced to form the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Council, now 41 years old and believed to be the oldest such continuously operating organization of its kind in the country. [SNIP] The list of organizations Norton either helped found or lent his time to was lengthy, including the Association of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexuals in Counseling, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the New York State Coalition of Gay Organizations, National Association of Gay Psychologists and, locally, the Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless and the Capital District Counselors Association. DETAILS: What: A community celebration of Joe Norton
Where: First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, 405 Washington Ave.
When: 4 p.m. Sunday
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