Urvashi Vaid
Indian and American writer, lawyer and LGBTQ+ activist (1958-2022) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 63
Urvashi Vaid was an Indian-born American LGBT rights activist, lawyer, and writer. An expert in gender and sexuality law, she was a consultant in attaining specific goals of social justice.
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She held a series of roles at the National LGBTQ Task Force, serving as executive director from 1989 to 1992 - the first woman of color to lead a national gay-and-lesbian organization. She is the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (1995) and Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (2012).
