(USA) - Gay historian Allan Berube, award-winning author of Coming Out Under Fire, died Tuesday of complications from two stomach ulcers. He was 61. Berube was an independent historian and community activist. After coming out in 1969, he joined a gay liberation collective household. He later became a member of a gay commune for craftspeople in San Francisco, where he remained for many years, according to a statement released by a friend, Wayne Hoffman. In 1978, Berube was one of the founders of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project.
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