Adele Starr

Adele Starr (February 10, 1920 - December 10, 2010) organized the Los Angeles chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays in 1976.

[1] Ida Seltzer, later Adele Starr, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 10, 1920, the daughter of an accountant and a homemaker.

[2] Adele Starr, at the time in Brentwood, California and a mother of five, became an activist for gay rights and marriage equality in 1974 after her second son, Philip Starr, told her he was gay.

[2] Los Angeles P-FLAG, founded in 1976, received more than 7,500 letters requesting information.

This biographical article about a United States activist is a stub.