Don Kilhefner is an LGBTQ rights activist, community organizer, and Jungian psychologist living in West Hollywood, California.[1] He founded and co-founded multiple gay organizations,[2] including the Radical Faeries,[3] the LA Community Services Center[4] (now the Los Angeles LGBT Center), and the Van Ness Recovery House.[5]
Personal life
Kilhefner was born March 3, 1938, in Ephrata, Pennsylvania[1]
He finished high school and enrolled Millersville University, where he majored in history.[1] His attained his first master's degree, in African American History, from Howard University.[6]
After completing college he taught German and world history in high school for a year in suburban Wilmington. He was one of the first to volunteer for the Peace Corps in 1962.[7] He spent three years of his life living in Ethiopia, while teaching secondary school history.[1]