Bruce Voeller, PhD

Bruce Voeller, PhD

A biologist, AIDS researcher, and gay rights activist.

(1934 – 1994)

A biologist, AIDS researcher, and gay rights activist.

He coined the term acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Co-founder of the National Gay Task Force (1977), now renamed National LGBTQ Task Force.

One of the inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes” inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor.

Alma mater  

  • Reed College
  • Rockefeller Institute

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