Melvin Dwork (February 9, 1922 – June 14, 2016) was an American interior designer and LGBT activist.
[1] After graduating from Southeast High School in 1939, he spent two years as a student at the Kansas City Art Institute.
[1] During World War II, Dwork served in the U.S. Navy and then applied for officer candidate school.
[2] Dwork spent years trying to remove his naval discharge status from "undesirable" to "honorable."
[1] Filmmaker Michael Jacoby made a still-unreleased documentary, titled The Undesirable, about Dwork's case.