BY LORRI L. JEAN | There has never been a queer leader like Urvashi Vaid. Until her death of metastatic breast cancer on May 14 at age 63, she spent the better part of five decades fighting injustice. At her passing, the LGBTQ community mourned—as did countless others dedicated to important fights for women’s and civil rights.
“The lesbian agenda is the reconstruction of families, the reimagining of power, the reorganization of the economic system, the reinforcement of civil rights and dignity for all people, the end of the oppression of women, the end of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, the reestablishment of a proper relationship to our environment," Vaid said during a 1991 speech she gave at the National Lesbian Conference in Atlanta. (Click here to read more) |