Stuart Timmons

Stuart Timmons
Stuart Timmons during his West Hollywood History Tour 2015
Born	(1957-01-14)January 14, 1957 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	January 28, 2017(2017-01-28) (aged 60) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	writer, historian
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	Short stories, non-fiction, history
Subject	LGBT history
Notable works	The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement; Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
Notable awards	Lambda Literary Award for Arts & Culture, Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction
Website
http://stuarttimmons.com/

Stuart Timmons (January 14, 1957 – January 28, 2017) was an American journalist, activist, historian, and award-winning author specializing in LGBT history based in Los Angeles, California. He was the author of The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement and the co-author of Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians with Lillian Faderman.

Timmons was born on January 14, 1957, in Cottagewood Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has two sisters, Gay and Emily Timmons, both in the SF Bay Area. While he was still a toddler, his family moved to Santa Barbara due to his father getting a new job.

Timmons received his Bachelor of Arts in Film from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While he was a student at UCLA, he co-founded the gay festival on campus with John Ramirez in 1979; it later became known as Outfest.

Through his career Timmons wrote and edited for magazines, documentary  films and non-fiction literature. While at UCLA, where he majored in film, his work as an activist impressed Mark Thompson, who was then the senior editor of The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian news magazine. Thompson hired Timmons as a journalist for the magazine.

Timmons was the author of The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement, published in 1990. With lesbian historian Lillian Faderman, he co-authored Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians, published in 2006. It chronicles the history of gays and lesbians in Los Angeles since the late 1700s.

Timmons served as the executive director of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives and served on its board of directors. In 2007, he began developing walking tours of LGBTQ historic sites in Los Angeles. He finished tours of Downtown Los Angeles and Silver Lake, Los Angeles, but experienced a severe cerebellar stroke in January 2008 before he could complete his West Hollywood edition.