Paul Popham

Paul Graham Popham was an American gay rights activist who was a founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis and served as its president from 1981 until 1985. He also helped found and was chairman of the AIDS Action Council, a lobbying organization in Washington. He was the basis for the character of Bruce Niles in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which was one of the first plays to address the HIV/AIDS crisis. ^{Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (d. 1987)}

6 October 1941

Born on the same birth day (6 October): Akuila Uate • Ernest Walton • Han Sun-hwa • Helen Wills • Ivan Graziani • James McGill • Joe Frazier (baseball) • Melvyn Bragg • Millie Small • Nail Yakupov • Roshon Fegan • Sergei Mylnikov • Shana Alexander • Tommy Lawton

Born in the same month (October 1941): Andrea de Adamich • Anneke Wills • Art Shamsky • Dave Weill • Diana Hendry • Earl Thomas Conley • Frank Stagg (Irish republican) • Gordon Tootoosis • Laurie Lawrence • Lester Bowie • Lucious Jackson • Lynda Benglis • Paul Simon • Peter Takeo Okada • René Metge • Roy Masters (rugby league) • Sally Kirkland • Steve Cropper • Steven Kellogg