Bob Kunst

Bob Kunst (a.k.a. Robert Kunst) is one of America's leading human rights and civil rights activists, he is also known as an anti-Nazi and anti-KKK activist. Born in 1941, a native of Miami Beach, Florida, Kunst spent much of his adult life since the early 1960s in civil rights activism for African-Americans, Women, LGBT people, especially in the 1976 Miami-Dade County Ordinance for Gay Rights which was passed to protect the civil rights of Lesbians and Gays, and Bisexuals, and later Kunst was involved in activism for people with AIDS. Kunst was active to opposed Save Our Children, a Dade County, Florida voter-approved county initiative supported by singer Anita Bryant and her then-husband Bob Green, the initiative repealed the previous anti-discrimination ordinances Kunst fought for in employment, especially in public education teaching, and housing based on Sexual Orientation, but this law was eventually repealed by the state Supreme Court of Florida in 2010. Kunst later became more involved in Gay Rights activism in the United States ever since. As a Democratic Party politician, Kunst unsuccessfully campaigned against Republican Bob Graham in the 1986 United States Senate elections in Florida. Kunst also ran unsuccessfully in the 2010 United States House of Representatives Election, this time as an unaffiliated independent, against incumbent Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat, in the State of Florida. Kunst volunteered for the Hillary Rodham Clinton 2008 U.S. presidential campaign in his hometown of Miami, Florida. Kunst was president (1991-2001) of Shalom International, a Jewish group combating global Neo-Nazism and Neo-fascism movements. And he was a co-founder of the Oral Majority in 1982, the Liberal and secular counter-protest group of the Religious Right organizations Moral Majority and later the Christian Coalition. Outside of political causes, Kunst worked in marketing for the Miami Toros professional soccer team in the 1970s.