Don Kilhefner is an LGBTQ rights activist, community organizer, and Jungian psychologist living in West Hollywood, California. [1] [2] He founded and co-founded multiple gay organizations, [3] including the Radical Faeries, [4] the LA Community Services Center [5] (now the Los Angeles LGBT Center), and the Van Ness Recovery House. [6]
Kilhefner was born March 3, 1938, in Ephrata, Pennsylvania [2]
He finished high school and enrolled Millersville University, where he majored in history. [2] His attained his first master's degree, in African American History, from Howard University. [7]
After completing college he taught German and world history in high school for a year in suburban Wilmington. He was one of the first to volunteer for the Peace Corps in 1962. [8] He spent three years of his life living in Ethiopia, while teaching secondary school history. [2]