About Harris L. Kimball
Harris L. Kimball was a lawyer.
Harris L. Kimball was the first openly gay lawyer in the United States. He was disbarred in Florida for sodomy in 1955, but reinstated in New York in 1973.
Biography
Kimball was born in 1926, and began his practice of law in Orlando, Florida in 1953. Due to rumors about his sexuality, he was targeted by a police sex sting and arrested in 1955. Kimball denied the accusations of engaging in oral sex with another man, but, after a number of hearings, was disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court in 1957 "for committing an act contrary to good morals".
He died in 2013.
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Harris L. Kimball died in 2013.
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