Robert Levithan (April 11, 1951 - May 3, 2016), was an American gay [1] writer and HIV/AIDS activist. Levithan was involved with HIV/AIDS since the early 1980s, and wrote prolifically on living with HIV and other issues related to LGBT culture. [2] He died from cancer on May 13, 2016.
Levithan was born in Manhattan on April 11, 1951, the third son of Alice and Lou Levithan. He was raised in Englewood, New Jersey, where he attended public school. He graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1969. [3] [4] He earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree in Transformational Counseling from Southwestern College. [1]
Levithan was the uncle of author David Levithan. [1]
Levithan was diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s. [1]
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, which focused on serving people with terminal illnesses. [1] By 1987, the group had several hundred attendees at three weekly groups. 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]
Levithan was a consult for the 1994 short film Trevor . [1]
While working as a theatrical producer, Levithan produced the original performances of The Vagina Monologues and Celeste Lecesne’s two plays One-Man Band and Word of Mouth. [1]
In 2012, he published The New 60: Outliving Yourself and Reinventing a Future, which was a compilation of his blog posts. He was also a columnist for Oprah Winfrey’s interiors magazine, and had recently finished writing a children's book at the time of his death. [1]
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.
Englewood Cliffs is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 5,342, an increase of 61 (+1.2%) from the 2010 census count of 5,281, which in turn reflected a decline of 41 (-0.8%) from the 5,322 counted in the 2000 census.
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Lisa Williamson, known as Sister Souljah, is an American author, activist, rapper and film producer.
The Dwight-Englewood School (D-E) is an independent coeducational college-preparatory day school, located in Englewood in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school teaches students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in three functionally separate schools. The Lower School, formerly known as the Bede School, serves students in pre-kindergarten through 5th grade in Drapkin Hall. The Middle School, which used to be in Umpleby Hall, is now in the new middle school building which was finished in 2019, serves students in 6th through 8th grade. The Upper School serves grades 9 through 12, and it houses its administration in the Leggett building and the Campus Center. Other buildings are the Hajjar STEM Center, Swartley Arts Center, the Imperatore Library and the Modell Sports Complex.
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Rev. Robert Wilkinson Castle Jr. was an American Episcopal priest, social activist, and actor. Castle was the subject of the 1992 documentary film Cousin Bobby, which was directed by his cousin, film director Jonathan Demme. His involvement in Demme's documentary led to an unlikely career as an actor in more than a dozen films over the next two decades, including roles in Philadelphia, The Addiction, Beloved, and Rachel Getting Married.
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