He worked in marketing for the Miami Toros professional soccer team in the 1970s.[2]
Gay rights activism
He supported the 1976 Miami-Dade County Ordinance for Gay Rights[3] and was later involved in activism for people with AIDS.[4]
Kunst 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 The initiative repealed the previous anti-discrimination ordinance Kunst had supported.[5] He helped organize the subsequent pressure campaign on citrus industry corporate sponsors of Bryant.[6] The law was eventually repealed by the state Supreme Court of Florida in 2010.[7]
In 1991, after allegations of financial mismanagement were published in the Miami Herald, Kunst was fired as the executive director of Cure AIDS Now.[8]
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.[10]
In 2018, Kunst protested outside the courthouse where Noor Salman, Omar Mateen's widow, was being tried for complicity in her husband's Pulse nightclub massacre. Kunst held a sign reading: "'Fry her till she has no 'Pulse'". Noor Salman was found not guilty during a trial that also exposed the fact that she was abused by her husband.[11]
