Stewart Butler

Stewart Butler (August 21, 1930 - March 5, 2020) was an American gay rights activist mostly active in Louisiana.

Early life and education Butler was born on August 21, 1930, in Mobile, Alabama. He had a sister. He grew up in Louisiana, attending high school in Baton Rouge. After high school Butler briefly attended Louisiana State University but left to join the United States Army. After Alaska became a state, Butler moved to San Francisco before settling in New Orleans. The ordinance first went up for a vote in 1984, when council members deadlocked and could not break a tie.

In 2012, Butler was a co-founder for the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. In 2022, the book Political Animal, written by Frank Perez, about Butler's life was published by the University Press of Mississippi.