Gabe Kruks; Executive of Gay and Lesbian Center

Gabe Kruks, 42, chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center. Among his many activities, Kruks, a onetime driver in the Israeli army who worked in the film industry, developed programs to get homeless teen-agers off the streets. He helped draft the national Ryan White Care Act and was credited with being the first openly gay person to sit on the Health Resources Services Administration’s AIDS advisory committee. In Los Angeles on Wednesday of the complications of AIDS.