Harry Wieder, above at lower right, at a press conference calling for wheelchair access seven days a week to the James A. Farley Post Office. [Times caption]
Today’s New York Times will include this lovely, absolutely lovely piece about Harry Wieder (which the paper unfortunately burdened with a totally lame headline*) by Susan Dominus: “Remembering the Little Man Who Was a Big Voice for Causes“.
He sometimes attended seven or eight meetings in a day, even if he snored his way through one or two of them. His friends joked that he must have a clone � �but why would anyone clone someone that strange?� Mr. Wasserman [Marvin Wasserman, a longtime ally and occasional victim] said.
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I dunno, but I think I actually prefer, “Gay dwarf activist killed by New York taxi“, the headline I saw two days ago on an Australian site.
[Michael A. Harris image from the Times site]