Madeline D. Davis

Madeline Davis (July 7, 1940 – April 28, 2021) was an American LGBT activist and historian. In 1970 she was a founding member of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, the first gay rights organization in Western New York. In 1972, Davis became the first openly lesbian delegate at a major party national convention, speaking at the Democratic National Convention. The same year, she taught the first course on lesbianism in the United States, titled "Lesbianism 101" at the …