Ruth Ellis (activist)
Ruth Ellis (July 23, 1899 - October 5, 2000) was the oldest known open lesbian, and an LGBT rights activist. Her life was the subject of the documentary directed by Yvonne Welbon, Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100.
Read more about Ruth Ellis (activist): Biography, The Ruth Ellis Center
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“We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilisation.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)