Barbara Love, a feminist activist who fought for gay rights and for lesbians to have a place and a voice in the women's movement in its early days, died on Nov. 13 in the Bronx.She was 85.The cause was complications of leukemia and Parkinson's disease, said her wife, Donna Smith.Raised in privilege in New Jersey, Ms. Love came of age in the late 1950s and early '60s as a closeted young woman in Greenwich Village who haunted the city's Mafia-run lesbian bars, which were often raided by the police.
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