Former SF professor, activist Stuart Loomis dies
ebar.comLongtime gay rights activist and retired San Francisco State University professor Stuart Loomis died January 17 in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he had lived for many years.
He was 102. Friends announced Mr. Loomis' passing on Facebook. Mr. Loomis was a prominent gay activist in San Francisco, noted his friend Tim Allen.
He was a member of the early gay rights group Society for Individual Rights. He also co-founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, which is now part of HealthRIGHT 360.
Allen wrote in an email that Mr. Loomis was one of the people that then-mayor Dianne Feinstein considered for appointment to the Board of Supervisors in 1978 following the assassination of Harvey Milk, the first gay person elected to public office in San Francisco and California.
