Phyllis Shafer
American LGBTQ rights activist
About Phyllis Shafer
Phyllis Shafer was an American LGBTQ activist. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son, Drew Shafer, operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. She wrote an advice column for The Phoenix under the pseudonym Estelle Graham.
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