John McNeill, the 90-year-old gay priest and pioneer of the international LGBT civil rights movement died on September 22 at Westside Regional Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. McNeill, an Irish American priest from Buffalo, was a POW in Nazi Germany and a voice for peace during the Vietnam War. Long celebrated as a pioneer of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) liberation, McNeill was an author of best-selling, internationally published titles on Catholicism and homosex