Kinsey was inducted into the Legacy Walk in Chicago, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people
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Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey…
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culture · American scientist (1894–1956) · entomologist · zoologist · sexologist · sex educator · sociologist · university teacher · psychologist · writer · scientific collector · also Alfred Kinsey, Alfred Charles Kinsey, Alfred C. Kinsey, Kinsey
Born 23 June 1894 · Died 25 August 1956 · Q186561
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2005· 1 entry
LAist: Alfred Kinsey
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2003· 1 entry
Theatre of NOTE produced the Steve Morgan Haskell play titled Fucking Wasps which followed Kinsey's life from childhood until death
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1956· 2 entries
In Bloomington Hospital at the age of 62
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Died 1956-08-25.
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1955· 1 entry
Both visited the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù, Sicily, where Aleister Crowley had established a commune
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1949· 1 entry
Mae West, reminiscing on the days when the word "sex" was rarely uttered, said of Kinsey, "That guy merely makes it easy for me
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1948· 1 entry
Followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, both of which reached the top of the bestseller lists and turned Kinsey into a celebrity
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1947· 1 entry
Founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
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1935· 1 entry
Kinsey delivered a lecture to a faculty discussion group at Indiana University, his first public discussion of the topic, wherein he attacked the "widespread ignorance of sexual structure and physiology" and promoted his
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1933· 1 entry
After discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc
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1924· 1 entry
Followed by Joan in 1925, and then by their second son Bruce in 1928
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1922· 1 entry
Died from complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday
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1920· 1 entry
Published several papers under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, introducing the gall wasp to the scientific community and describing its phylogeny
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1917· 1 entry
“s journal (started in 1917) and that the events concerned predated the Kinsey Reports. According to Mikella Procopio,”
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1916· 1 entry
Kinsey was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in biology and psychology
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1913· 1 entry
Making him one of the earliest Eagle Scouts
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1894· 2 entries
In Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Sarah Ann (née Charles) and Alfred Seguine Kinsey
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Born 1894-06-23.
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