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| Larry Brinkin (left) at his wedding in San Francisco. |
Co-founder of The Bay Area Gay Liberation and the Lesbian/Gay Labor Alliance, Larry Brinkin, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. Brinkin, 67, changed his plea in a deal with the district attorney's office that will result in a sentencing recommendation of six months in county jail, six months of home detention, five years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender. Prosecutors originally charged him with six felony counts of possessing and distributing child pornography, but dropped all but one felony count of possession as part of the plea bargain. Brinkin must undergo sex offender therapy and is banned from working with kids, contacting a juvenile without parental consent, and living with someone responsible for a child without disclosing his offender status. Back in 1982, Brinkin filed the first US domestic partnership lawsuit with the help of the ACLU: setting precedent for the current push towards nationwide same-sex marriage. When Brinkin retired as head of the Human Rights Commission in 2010, in honor of Brinkin’s work over the years, San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution declaring the first seven days of February 2010 “Larry Brinkin Week.”
My previous blogs on the Brinkin case: