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Sheldon 'Turner' Freeman, gay D.C. librarian and activist, dead at 64

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Sheldon "Turner" Freeman, a Black gay man who worked for 39 years in the District of Columbia Public Library system and established racially and LGBTQ-inclusive programming there, has died at age 64.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.Freeman died of a heart attack December 23 at his home in Steelton, Pa., the Washington Blade reports. He had retired from the library system in November…

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Sheldon 'Turner' Freeman, gay D.C. librarian and activist, dead at 64

Sheldon "Turner" Freeman, a Black gay man who worked for 39 years in the District of Columbia Public Library system and established racially and LGBTQ-inclusive programming there, has died at age 64.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.Freeman died of a heart attack December 23 at his home in Steelton, Pa., the Washington Blade reports. He had retired from the library system in November…

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Longtime D.C. librarian, LGBTQ rights advocate Turner Freeman dies at 64

Sheldon ‘Turner’ Freeman, a gay librarian who worked for 39 years at the D.C. Public Library system and is credited with initiating a Black History Month film series and LGBTQ inclusive programming at the library system, died Dec. 23, at his home in Steelton, Pa. He was 64. The D.C.-based LGBTQ advocacy and event planning group Team Rayceen Productions, which has held events at D.C.’s main Martin Luther King Library branch with support from Free…

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