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Carmen Vázquez, the founding director of the Women's Building in San Francisco and a longtime activist for the LGBTQ community and social justice, died January 27 in New York City. She was 72.
Carmen Vázquez, a longtime LGBTQ activist who was born in Puerto Rico, died on Wednesday from the coronavirus. She was 72.
National LGBTQ Task Force's Rea Carey on Living Through History January 27 2021 11:58 AM EST The National LGBTQ Task Force's Creating Change conference — a multi-day event that brings together some of the world's preeminent queer activists, artists, writers, and thinkers — is obviously a bit different this year. Not only is the 33rd Creating Change, running January 28-31, completely virtual this year because of COVID-19, it takes place a week after Donald Trump's catastrophic presidency ended, less than a month after Trump's white nationalist mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, and serves as t...
When Kierra Johnson heard about the recent U.S. Senate victories in Georgia, she was elated. “I must have grinned so hard, my cheeks were hurting,” says the native of Valdosta, Georgia. “I felt like I had a cramp in my cheeks.” For Johnson, the victories by Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff felt like a “vindication” of something she’d been saying for years. “I have been on my soapbox for almost 25 years now about the divestment in the South and Midwest by progressives. It has been a conviction of mine that there are a lot of progressive people who care about social just...
Event date: January 24-28, 2018