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Thomas Lawrence Higgins was born on 17 July, 1950 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, US, is a Gay rights activist. Discover Thomas Lawrence Higgins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?
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Writer, nurse |
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44 years old |
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Cancer |
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17 July, 1950 |
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17 July |
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Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, US |
| Date of death |
10 November, 1994 |
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Roseville, Minnesota, US |
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Thomas Lawrence Higgins Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Thomas Lawrence Higgins Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Thomas Lawrence Higgins worth at the age of 44 years old? Thomas Lawrence Higgins’s income source is mostly from being a successful Activist. He is from . We have estimated Thomas Lawrence Higgins's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Thomas Lawrence Higgins (June 17, 1950 – November 10, 1994) was an American writer and gay rights activist, who is credited with coining the term gay pride.
He is best known for pushing a pie into the face of anti-gay activist Anita Bryant on live television.
Higgins was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
He attended Catholic elementary school in Minnesota as well as Catholic high schools in Minnesota and North Dakota, before being accepted to the University of North Dakota in 1967 to study in journalism and theater, before he was suspended in 1968 for his involvement in an underground student publication called Snow Job.
In 1969 Higgins became the first person in Minnesota to be granted conscientious objector status from the Vietnam War.
Around this time he joined the Fight Repression of Erotic Expression (FREE), where he is credited with coining the term gay pride.
He was terminated from his job at the State Radio Services for the Blind as a result of his affiliation with FREE.
In response FREE picketed his former workplace, protesting for anti-discrimination protections.
On October 14, 1977, Higgins and his friend and fellow gay rights activist Bruce Brockway attended a televised pre-concert press conference hosted by actress Anita Bryant, who was answering questions about her plan to open a network of Anita Bryant Centers where "homosexuals could go for rehabilitation."
During the conference Higgins got up, and pushed a banana cream pie into Bryant's face.
Afterwards he and four companions exited the studio to answer questions for the media.
Bryant's husband Bob Green noticed one of them holding an unused pie, and pressed it into his face in retalliation.
Criminal charges were not filed against Higgins.
In 1980, Higgins and Brockway founded the Positively Gay Cuban Refugee Task, in response to an influx of refugees fleeing Cuba.
Among these refugees were gay men, who faced legal persecution in their home country.
They were all housed in refugee camps, and were unable to leave without an American sponsor.
The organization helped mobilize Minneapolis's gay community to sponsor gay refugees, and allow them to leave and resettle.
Higgins died of AIDS on November 10, 1994, following Bruce Brockway, who also died of AIDS in 1984.
Higgins is buried in Roseville, Minnesota.
