Paul Israel Rapoport an attorney, was a co-founder of both the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center is a nonprofit organization serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population of New York City and nearby communities.- History :...

 and Gay Men's Health Crisis

Gay Men's Health Crisis

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. The private foundation

Private foundation

A private foundation is a legal entity set up by an individual, a family or a group of individuals, for a purpose such as philanthropy. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the U.S. with over $38 billion in assets...

 that bears his name is one of the oldest and largest LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

-focused foundations in the country.

Rapoport attended P.S. 107 in New York City, the Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School

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 and Cornell University

Cornell University

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. He graduated cum laude from Columbia University Law School in 1965, and later received an LL.M. in tax law from New York University School of Law

New York University School of Law

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.

Rapoport died of AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 at New York University

New York University

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 Medical Center in July 1987 at the age of 47. His estate of roughly $8 million was used to establish The Paul Rapoport Foundation, Inc.,http://paulrapoportfoundation.org which at Rapoport's direction gives to LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 and HIV/AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 causes in the New York metropolitan area. In a press releasehttp://www.paulrapoportfoundation.org/pr_20090706.pdf dated July 6, 2009, the Foundation announced its intention to "bring its grantmaking operations to a close as of June 30, 2014 and cease operations entirely by June 30, 2015" in order to maximize its impact on grantees.

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• Obituary, The Record (Bergen County)
  The Record (Bergen County)
  The Record is a newspaper in northern New Jersey. It has the second largest circulation of New Jersey's daily newspapers, behind The Star-Ledger. Owned by the Borg family since 1930, it is the flagship publication of the North Jersey Media Group. Stephen Borg is the publisher of The Record...
  
  , July 12, 1987