with us gay folk...In the past-and sometimes to the consternation of my African-American friends-I have compared the gay rights movement to the black civil rights movement of the 60s. I still believe that they are comparable, and we have much to learn from the history of this great quest, both from its setbacks and its victories. Now, however, I believe it even more urgent to draw a comparison between our community and the Jews and homosexuals of Europe in the 30s and 40s. Then, as now, the majority cried out that those who predicted death and misery were crazy, that such things as mass extermination could not happen, that hysteria was dangerous. Until the very last, until they choked on the lethal gas in the extermination "showers," they did not accept the fact that the Nazi state despised them to the point of eradicating them from the face of the earth". He died of heart failure on March 31, 1997. His papers are held by the New York Public Library. See also Sexual orientation and the United States military Notes References Further reading Liebman, Marvin. Coming Out Conservative: An Autobiography. Chronicle Books (1992), 272 pages, (hardcover). Liebman's autobiography. Liebman, Marvin. "Independently Speaking" (1995) An article appearing The Advocate magazine where Liebman rejected the label "conservative". February 7, 1995. p. 41. External links 1923 births 1997 deaths Jewish American military personnel American military personnel discharged for homosexuality Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism LGBT conservatism in the United States LGBT Jews American LGBT rights activists LGBT Roman Catholics Activists from New York City American Zionists New York (state) Republicans Washington, D.C., Republicans Irgun Jewish anti-communists Military personnel from New York City Writers from Brooklyn 20th-century LGBT people