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Dick Leitsch, Whose ‘Sip-In’ Was a Gay Rights Milestone, Dies at 83

FILE — Dick Leitsch, right, with Randy Wicker, a fellow pioneering gay rights activist, in Manhattan, April 18, 2016. Leitsch, who in 1966 led a pioneering act of civil disobedience to secure the right of homosexuals to be served in a licensed bar, helping to clear the way for openly gay bars in New York State, died in Manhattan on June 22, 2018. He was 83. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)