Robert Levithan (April 11, 1951 - May 3, 2016), was an American writer and HIV/AIDS activist who has had a significant influence on LGBT culture. Levithan has been on the forefront of the reaction to the HIV/AIDS epidemic since the early Eighties. Levithan wrote prolifically on living with HIV and other issues related to LGBT culture on both Advocate.com and GoodMenProject.com. [1] He died of cancer in 2016. He was gay. [2]
Levithan was born on the island of Manhattan on April 11, 1951, the third son of Alice and Lou Levithan. He was raised in Englewood, New Jersey, attending public schools K - 12 and graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1969. [3] [4] He died on May 13, 2016, at the age of 65.
In 1984 Levithan trained at GMHC as a buddy and began volunteer work with seriously ill patients. In 1986, he founded an alternative support group, The Healing Circle, and became actively involved, eventually leading groups. By 1987 the group had several hundred attendees at 3 weekly groups, representing an alternative to the mainstream agencies which were preparing people to die. The Manhattan Center for Living was formed and then in 1991 Levithan began working as a counselor, group facilitator, and later, board member at Friends in Deed. [5]
Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of Englewood Township. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 29,308, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 2,161 (+8.0%) from the 2010 census count of 27,147, which in turn reflected an increase of 944 (+3.6%) from the 26,203 counted in the 2000 census.
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