found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Keith Boykin; civil rights activist, gay rights activist, author, educator; born August 28, 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States; graduated with a degree in Government from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (1987); worked in Boston on the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign; graduated from Harvard Law School (1992); served as general editor of the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review; worked on Bill Clinton's presidential campaign; helped organize a historic meeting between President Clinton and gay and lesbian community leaders (April 1993); appointed executive director of the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum in Los Angeles, California (1995 -1998), adjunct professor of political science at American University in Washington, D.C. (1999-2001); founded the National Black Justice Coalition, an antiracism and anti-homophobia advocacy group for black gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered men and women and their supporters)
