Urvashi Vaid, pioneering LGBTQ activist and author, dies at 63
by Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times
May 18, 2022
2 minutes
Urvashi Vaid, a pioneering social justice activist, attorney and author who led the nation’s oldest LGBTQ advocacy organization during the height of the AIDS crisis and fought for fundamental reforms long before same-sex marriage and other basic rights were won, has died at 63.
Vaid, who had been battling cancer, died Saturday at a hospital in New York City, said Richard Burns,
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