David Mixner, Fierce Fighter for Gay Rights, Is Dead at 77
New York Times
He persuaded Ronald Reagan to help defeat a proposed ban on L.G.B.T.Q. schoolteachers in California in 1978, and he sparred with his friend Bill Clinton over “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/david-mixner-dead.html