ABilly S. Jones-Hennin (March 21, 1942 – January 19, 2024) was an American LGBT rights activist based in Washington, D.C. Beginning in the late 1970s, Jones-Hennin was active in African-American LGBT organizing, helping to found a number of groups, and acted as the logistics coordinator for the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979.

[1][2] He was adopted at age 3 by American civil rights activists[2] and raised in Richmond, Virginia, with the name Allen Billy Scott Jones.

[2][1] In 1979, he was the logistics coordinator for the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights[1][5] and helped organize the National Third World LGBT Conference at Howard University that same weekend.

[3][6] Jones and his then-partner, Chris Hennin, worked with the Whitman-Walker Clinic during the HIV/AIDS crisis to develop healthcare programs, educate the public on the illness, and provide support to those diagnosed.

[1][3][5][6][8] In August 1989, he was made head of the Minority Aids Program in Washington D.C.[9] In the 1990s, Jones pivoted towards disability activism as he faced his own heath problems of spinal stenosis.

[4][10] Jones realized he was attracted to men early in his life and initially identified as gay, but chose to marry a woman on the advice of his father.

[5] Jones-Hennin died due to complications from Parkinson's disease and spinal stenosis at his winter home in Chetumal, Mexico on January 19, 2024.