News & Commentary written by Marcia M. Gallo

Marcia M. Gallo is the author of numerous essays and book chapters on LGBTQ and other social movements as well as two prize-winning books: Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement (Carroll & Graf, 2006; Seal Press, 2007) and "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy (Cornell University Press 2015).

She was the Field Director for the ACLU of Northern California from 1981 to 1995. Working with a team of volunteer activists, she mobilized ACLU-NC members, complementing the work of ACLU’s attorneys and lobbyists. She also was the founding director of the Howard A. Friedman First Amendment Education Project, which brought high school students and teachers into active involvement with the ACLU-NC on a variety of issues.

After moving to New York and completing the doctoral program in American history at the City University of New York Graduate Center, she taught at Lehman College in the Bronx, New York before joining the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She retired from UNLV in June 2020 and returned to New York where she continues to write, lecture, and organize.