Career
He did so at the annual Continental Conference of Student Religious Liberals on September 5, 1969 at the Louisiana Foret Conference Center near Colorado Springs, Colorado. He founded the first counseling center for gays and lesbians in San Francisco. In the 1970s he established the first hospice on Maui.
He was president of the San Francisco chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1990s.
He died at the age of 58 from complications of heart and lung disease, exacerbated by obesity and a lifelong smoking habit.