Iconic LGBTQ and AIDS activist David Mixner dies at 78
Word came Monday night that one of the most influential LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activists and political strategists in the LGBTQ movement has died.
David Benjamin Mixner, 78, was a longtime formidable presence in both Democratic progressive political circles and within his beloved LGBTQ community.
In a Facebook post on his personal page late Monday a simple statement read: “It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of David’s passing today.” News of Mixner’s death quickly spread as friends, longtime political acquaintances and people whose lives he had impacted commenced to populate his page and others with reflections on his impact.
Neil Giuliano, the first directly-elected openly gay mayor of a large city in the U.S. as mayor of Tempe, Ariz., who then went on to serve as president of GLAAD and later headed the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, was a long time friend of Mixner.
