ABSTRACT
Any volume of important gay rights figures in our time would be incomplete if it did not include Morris Kight. A simple listing of the organizations, groups, and events he has begun, spearheaded, or revived makes it immediately apparent how dynamic and how effective Kight has been in seeing that gay men and lesbians achieved political and social rights and recognition. Kight founded the Gay Liberation Front; he was cofounder of the Gay Community Services Center of Los Angeles; founder of the Christopher Street West; founder of the Stonewall Democratic Club of Los Angeles; cofounder of the Lesbian and Gay Caucus of the California Democratic Party; cofounder of Asian and Pacific Lesbian/Gays; Commissioner of the National AIDS vigil in Washington, DC, in 1983; leader of the 1987 March on Washington; organizer of the 1988 March on Sacramento; cofounder of the Van Ness Recovery House for Alcoholism and Addiction in Los Angeles; and founder of the nationally celebrated twentyfifth anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion March in New York City in June of 1994. Before and since, he has been involved with many nongay organizations.
