Jim Kolbe, Edward Carpenter

Born: Jim Kolbe (1942)
Died: Edward Carpenter (1929)

Born on this day

28JunBorn 194284th birthday

Jim Kolbe

Jim Kolbe served southern Arizona in Congress for twenty-two years. His coming out in 1996 made a gay Republican visible within a party increasingly divided over the rights of people like him.

Died on this day

28JunDied 192997th anniversary of death

Edward Carpenter

His writing and shared life with George Merrill connected the struggle for sexual freedom with socialism, everyday work and the search for a less restrictive society.