APRIL 4, 1997 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE 9
OBITUARIES
Marvin Liebman
Marvin Liebman, a well-known author and political activist for anti-Communist and gay rights causes, died March 31, 1997, in Washington, D.C. He was 73.
The cause of death was heart failure. Liebman first achieved renown in the 1950s as the organizer and leader of several organization dedicated to fighting communism and to promoting conservative policies and candidates. He is widely identified as a founder of the modern conservative movement in America.
In 1957, with the financial backing of his friend and mentor Charles Edison, Liebman launched his own public relations and consulting firm, Marvin Liebman Associates, which raised money for conservative causes.
Among the groups he helped create are Young Americans for Freedom, the American Conservative Union, and the Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations.
In the 1960s, Liebman was integrally involved in the campaigns of Barry Goldwater for president and the emerging national ambitions of Ronald Reagan.
During a stint in London from 1969 to 1975, Liebman put his creative talents and fundraising prowess to work in theater and film as a playwright and producer. Among the shows he produced was Miss Julie, starring Helen Mirren and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Upon returning to the United States, Liebman once more became engaged in conservative politics. Unsuccessful in his efforts to secure the reelection of Sen. Jim Buckley, R-N.Y. in 1976, Liebman later aided Reagan in his successful bid for chief executive in 1980. In the Reagan administration, he accepted a post with the National Endowment for the Arts and proceeded to a career slot with the Federal Trade Commission, from which he retired in 1994.
In 1990, at the age of 67, Liebman came out publicly as a gay man in an announcement that
appeared simultaneously in the Advocate, a national gay news magazine, and the National Review, a conservative journal edited by his longtime friend William F. Buckley Jr.
"I feel that our cause might sink back into the ooze in which so much of it rested in its preNational Review days,” Liebman wrote to Buckley then. "In that dark age, the American right was heavily, perhaps dominantly, made up of bigots, anti-Semites, anti-Catholics, the KKK, red-necks, Know-Nothings, a sorry lot of public hucksters and religious medicine men... Now times are changing. There is no longer the anti-Communist cement to hold the edifice together. The great enterprise is in danger of sinking back into an aggregation of bigotries."
In 1992, Liebman published a memoir, Coming Out Conservative (Chronicle Books, San Francisco). He became an outspoken advocate for gay rights in speeches and monthly columns, which were syndicated nationwide.
Liebman was born July 21, 1923, in New York City. He is survived by his sister Eleanor Lidofsky of Brooklyn and a large adopted family of friends in Washington, D.C., and across the country. At Liebman's request, there will be no funeral service. be no funeral
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