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speakers, including national movement leaders Frank Kameny, Barbara Gittings, Rita Mae Brown, and Howard Brown.

KGLF formed speakers bureaus and supplied the mass media with gay and lesbian stories and faces for decades. It also held conferences and trained new leadership and sponsored support groups. It was also known that KGLF threw great parties.

KGLF garnered a wealth of positive press coverage of gays and lesbians throughout northeast Ohio, especially during the early 1970s.

Noll, also known as a great English professor, was called "the first publicly out lesbian in Ohio" by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

She was presented with a clock, representing achievement that stands the test of time, by Alfreda Brown, KSU vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion.

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"It's not just my award," said Noll, "It belongs to all who were part of the Gay Liberation Front or supported it."

Noll recognized KGLF personalities who came to celebrate with her, including Kaltenborn, former dean of student affairs John Binder and his assistant Wilma 'Crawford, a United Church of Christ pastor, the first known openly gay minister Bill Johnson, and supportive ally and fellow English professor Diane Culbertson.

Noll's sister Leonore Walters was also recognized.

Noll said she was especially fond of the students from the 1980s.

"I think the main thing about those years was all that energy that burst out," Noll said.

"Our job was easier then," said Noll. "All we had to do was be open, not be silent any more. With the gay movement, we saw immediate results in people's lives, including my own."

"We had all just come out," Noll said, "and it was the best years of my adult life."

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