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- RA ADSSA, LONGTIME SOCIAL ACTIVIST AND FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LBIAN AND GAY TASK FORCE, HAS DIED AT 76
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RA ADSSA, LONGTIME SOCIAL ACTIVIST AND FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LBIAN AND GAY TASK FORCE, HAS DIED AT 76
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Ra Adssa, 76, of Philalphia, the longtime executive director of the Pennsylvania Lbian and Gay Task Force, a fierce lifelong advote for peace, social jtice, and civil rights of all sorts, and self-scribed nonprof anizatn management profsnal, died Saturday, July 9, of chronic obstctive pulmonary disease at Penn Hospice at Rtenhoe. She enthiastilly embraced all such pictns, often wore a silver battle-ax on a cha around her neck, and famoly opened her remarks at a 1986 gay-rights rally by shoutg, “Pay attentn!
“Ra was the real thg, a salt-of-the-earth dynamo who fought tenacly for LGBT people and so many others who get stepped on, ” said Bill Dobbs, a longtime gay activist New York. ”From 1979, when she was hired to n what was then lled the Philalphia Gay Task Force, through 2005, when the group was dissolved, Ms.
“She did transformative work that laid the foundatn for subsequent generatns to brg queer muni to the central rol we play Philalphia today, ” Christopher Bartlett, executive director at William Way LGBT Communy Center, said a Facebook Adssa also protted agast environmental hazards and sufficient fundg for public tn, champned public improvements for the disabled and unnizatn workplac, and won a 1986 Hall of Fame Award om the Philalphia Gay wrote fiery opn piec for The Inquirer, Daily News, and other media outlets, appeared on TV and rad shows, spoke extensively about social equaly, and anized ralli and protts wherever she saw the need.
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He was the cy’s first unofficial LGBT liaison, found Colours Magaze, and -found the Black Gay Men’s Learship Council and Philly Black Pri.
He gave his heart and soul to those thgs, while also givg heart and soul to protectg homels gay youth, creatg a magaze for the gay muny. “He got very angry, bee the AIDS Task Force was very much oriented toward Center Cy’s whe gay muny, ” Fair said. “This was the first time a queer, Black man stood up and lled out the racism and homophobia for what was.
One of the more obv marks he left durg his tenure was the rabow street signs stalled the Gayborhood. “He jt had so much knowledge about stutns Philalphia — the behd-the-scen stuff that people don’t know, he was privy to that bee of his posns and his nnectns the cy, ” said Carson, a Black gay man. They remember his prence at the now-closed Key Wt bar, a Gayborhood stutn that ed to wele mostly Black, gay people, or rollg up to a hoe party or a karaoke event.