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Biography
Dr. Don Kilhefner is a pioneering LGBTQ rights activist, community organizer, and Jungian psychologist living in West Hollywood, California. He founded and co-founded multiple gay organizations, including the Radical Faeries and the LA Community Services Center (now the Los Angeles LGBT Center) and Van Ness Recovery House.
Personal life
Kilhefner was born March 3, 1938 in Ephrata, Pennsylvania
He finished high school and enrolled Millersville University, where he majored in history. His attained his first masters degree, in African American History, from Howard University.
After completing college he taught German and world history in high school for a year in suburban Wilmington. He was among the first volunteers in the Peace Corps in 1962. He spent three years of his life living in Ethiopia, while teaching secondary school history. s.