Longtime activist, Victory Fund co-founder David Mixner has died
David Mixner, left, introduces President Clinton for a speech to the Access Now for Gay and Lesbian Equality dinner Oct. 2, 1999, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Khue Bui) David Mixner, a “founding father” of the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, a leading LGBTQ activist in the 1980s and ’90s and an advisor to then-candidate Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign has died.
He was 77. According to an article posted today (Monday, March 11) by The Advocate, Mixner first got involved in politics when he was a teenager in New Jersey, when he volunteered with John F.
Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign. He worked in the Black civil rights movement in the Deep South, helping register Black voters and getting rid of the poll tax.
He also demonstrated against the Vietnam War and was beaten so severely by police while protesting outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 that he walked with a cane for most of his life.
