Marcia Gallo

Marcia M. Gallo (born ) is an American historian and author. She is professor emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her 2016 non-fiction book, No One Helped, won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction and Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction.

Early life and education Gallo was born , in Wilmington, Delaware, and has two younger brothers: Ed and Mike Maggitti. She attended St. Peter’s Cathedral School and Padua Academy, and graduated high school in 1969.

Gallo took courses at San Francisco State University and eventually earned a degree from Holy Names University.

Career Gallo began her career as a secretary working at DuPont. After marrying in 1973, she became a stay-at-home housewife for a short time before taking on a secretary position at Today, Inc. The following year, the book was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction and Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction.

Gallo joined the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2008.

She published her second book, "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, with Cornell University Press in 2015. The following year, the book won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction and Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction.

From 2015 to 2017, Gallo was the president of the Southwest Oral History Association. From 2017 to 2018, she was the Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar with the New York Public Library.

As of 2024, Gallo is professor emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Personal life Gallo married her husband Victor in 1973 after having been in a relationship for over three years, during which time he had fought in the Vietnam War. The couple lived in Levittown, Pennsylvania. They divorced , after which Gallo moved to California, where she began to explore her sexuality.

In 1978, Gallo moved with her girlfriend to San Francisco. The couple broke up in the mid-1990s, after which Gallo moved to New York City.

As of 2008, Gallo lived with her long-term partner, Dr. Ann Cammett, in Las Vegas.

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