Merle Miller
Novelist, Author
1919 – 1986
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Who was Merle Miller?
Merle Miller was an American writer, novelist, and best-selling author who came out of the closet in an article in the New York Times Magazine on January 17, 1971, titled "What It Means to Be a Homosexual". Due to the response of over 2,000 letters to the article the article, with additional material was published later that year as a book. Miller became a spokesman for the gay rights movement. The article was again published as a book by Penguin Classics in 2012, with a new foreword by Dan Savage and a new afterword by Charles Kaiser.
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- Born
- May 17, 1919
Montour - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- University of Iowa
- Lived in
- Danbury
- Died
- Jun 10, 1986
Danbury
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on July 23, 2013
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