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'Urvashi Vaid' (b. 1958, New Delhi, India) is an American activist who has worked for over 25 years promoting civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.
Vaid was born in India and moved to the United States at age eight with her family. Vaid was politically active from an early age, participating in the anti-Vietnam war movement at 11 years old, Urvashi Vaid Biography then at Vassar College, becoming active in a variety of feminist and human rights causes. She received a law degree from Northeastern University in Boston in 1983, where she founded the Boston Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance, a non-partisan political organization that interviews and endorses candidates for political office and advocates for Boston's gay community.
Vaid took over leadership of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Policy Institute in 1989, and quickly built the NGLTF into the nation's pre-eminent gay rights NGO. She pushed gay issues into the public eye through coordinated media manipulation and staged numerous protests on such subjects as abortion and the Persian Gulf War. Vaid went on hiatus from the NGLTF between 1992 and 1997 and wrote '' (published in 1996), which won the Stonewall Book Award. Stonewall Book Awards She resumed working at the NGLTF, serving as the organization's executive director for three years.
Vaid worked for 5 years at the Ford Foundation, and has been Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation Board and Staff since late 2005.
Vaid lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts with her partner, comedian Kate Clinton. Urvashi Vaid
★ Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, , Urvashi, Vaid, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1996,
★ Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights, , Urvashi, Vaid, Stonewall Inn Editions, 2002,
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Political activism
Vaid was born in India and moved to the United States at age eight with her family. Vaid was politically active from an early age, participating in the anti-Vietnam war movement at 11 years old, Urvashi Vaid Biography then at Vassar College, becoming active in a variety of feminist and human rights causes. She received a law degree from Northeastern University in Boston in 1983, where she founded the Boston Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance, a non-partisan political organization that interviews and endorses candidates for political office and advocates for Boston's gay community.
Vaid took over leadership of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Policy Institute in 1989, and quickly built the NGLTF into the nation's pre-eminent gay rights NGO. She pushed gay issues into the public eye through coordinated media manipulation and staged numerous protests on such subjects as abortion and the Persian Gulf War. Vaid went on hiatus from the NGLTF between 1992 and 1997 and wrote '' (published in 1996), which won the Stonewall Book Award. Stonewall Book Awards She resumed working at the NGLTF, serving as the organization's executive director for three years.
Vaid worked for 5 years at the Ford Foundation, and has been Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation Board and Staff since late 2005.
Vaid lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts with her partner, comedian Kate Clinton. Urvashi Vaid
Works
★ Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, , Urvashi, Vaid, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1996,
★ Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights, , Urvashi, Vaid, Stonewall Inn Editions, 2002,
References
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