The resilience of Ruth Ellis, who became known as the oldest surviving open lesbian in U.S. at 101

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The resilience of Ruth Ellis, who became known as the oldest surviving open lesbian in U.S. at 101

Throughout her life, Ruth Charlotte Ellis from Detroit was an advocate of the rights of gays and lesbians, and of African Americans. Becoming widely known as the oldest surviving open lesbian at age 101 in America, Ellis came out as a lesbian around 1915. That was quite a dangerous thing for anyone to do at the...

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