Urvashi Vaid

Urvashi Vaid, 1994

Urvashi Vaid (born October 8, 1958 in New Delhi ) is an American author, lawyer and LGBT activist.

Life

Vaid was born in India and moved to the United States with her family when she was eight. Vaid was politically active at a young age and at the age of 11 participated in the anti- Vietnam war movement . Vaid later attended Vassar College , where she became active as a feminist and human rights activist. 1983 Vaid reached at the Northeastern University to conclude the study program Law . There she founded the Boston Lesbian / Gay Political Alliance , which conducts interviews with political candidates and gives testimonials , and works as a lobbyist for the LGBT community in Boston.

In 1989 she took over the leadership of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 's Policy Institute (NGLTF) and in the following years expanded this organization into the leading LGBT lobby organization at the federal level. She was also involved in abortion and the Gulf War . During her work, she met other LGBT and civil rights activists. Through coordinated control of the media, she achieved that lesbian and gay topics received wide public attention. Vaid paused her work with the NGLTF between 1992 and 1997 before becoming the organization's executive director for three years.

Vaid believes that the complete liberation of lesbians and gays from injustice can only take place if the larger institutions of society and the family are transformed through gays and lesbians working for inclusion and change within mainstream groups. Her book, Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (published 1996), which won the Stonewall Book Award , explains her beliefs about mainstreaming.

In 2000 Vaid moved from the NGLTF to the Ford Foundation , where she worked for five years. During this time she wrote the book Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy and Civil Rights with John D'Emilio and William B. Turner in 2002 . Vaid has been an Executive Director at the Arcus Foundation since 2005 .

Vaid and her partner , comedian Kate Clinton , live together in Provincetown and Manhattan .

Works

• with Sarah Schulman: My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan / Bush Years , Law Book Co of Australasia, 1994, ISBN 0-415-90853-1
• with Sarah Schulman, Sue O'Sullivan: My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan / Bush Years (Women on Women) , Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-304-33167-8
• Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation , Anchor Books, Doubleday , 1996, ISBN 0-385-47298-6
• with John D'Emilio, William B. Turner (all eds.): Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights , Stonewall Inn Editions , 2002, ISBN 0-312-28712-7 (first publication: St. Martin's Press, 2000, ISBN 0-312-24375-8 )

Web links

• http://www.ailf.org/awards/ny2000/index.html
• American Foundation for AIDS Research : Award of Courage Honorees - Urvashi Vaid - Honoring with Pride 2002 Honoree - engl. with interview

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Vaid ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Biography of Vaid ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ The Politics of Intersection . Retrieved October 18, 2007.
4. ^ Stonewall Book Awards . In: American Library Association . Archived from the original on April 7, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 11, 2007. 
5. ↑ Arcusfoundation - Board and staff ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed: June 18, 2008 
6. ↑ Tina Gianoulis: Vaid, Urvashi (b. 1958) ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2005, version: December 21, 2005; in: Claude J. Summers (Ed.): glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture