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- PROMENT GAY RIGHTS' ATTORNEY AD AFTER APPARENT SELF-IMMOLATN, POLICE SAY
- PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
- PROMENT LAWYER FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS DI AFTER SETTG HIMSELF ON FIRE PROSPECT PARK
- PROMENT GAY RIGHTS LAWYER DI AFTER SETTG HIMSELF ON FIRE IN NEW YORK PARK
PROMENT GAY RIGHTS' ATTORNEY AD AFTER APPARENT SELF-IMMOLATN, POLICE SAY
Urvashi Vaid, then-executive director of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, protts at then-Print Gee H. She published numero lumns, reports and books cludg Virtual Equaly: The Mastreamg of Gay and Lbian Liberatn, which won the Stonewall Book Award 1996.
In 1990, durg her time as executive director of what was then lled the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, she dispted the print's addrs on AIDS by holdg up a sign readg "Talk is cheap, AIDS fundg is not. " Vaid reflected on that era an terview wh NPR's All Thgs Consired after Bh's ath 2018, which she cricized his admistratn for s silence on AIDS and disparagement of gay people – and creded activists for prsurg him to take the actns he did, like signg the Ryan Whe CARE Act. While a law stunt at Northeastern Universy, she worked off-mp at the weekly newspaper Gay Communy News, found the Boston Lbian/Gay Polil Alliance and helped persua the universy to add sexual inty to s nondiscrimatn policy.
Then she joed the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, servg first as s media director before beg s executive director. NEW YORK -- A well-known gay rights lawyer and environmental advote appeared to have burned himself to ath New York Cy on Saturday a grisly prott agast elogil stctn, police said.
PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
Feman, the first openly gay jurist to serve on New York State’s hight urt, the Court of Appeals, died on Wednday at a Manhattan hospal. “Certaly my entire reer has been about promotg equal accs and equal jtice for all, ” Judge Feman rpond, alludg to his own experience as a gay man, “and I hope I add to the diversy of perspectiv that the urt nsirs.
He was sworn on June 21, 2017, durg Gay Pri a statement after the ath, Governor Cuomo lled the judge a “iend and role mol to untls L. He beme so taken by French culture that he would take his niec and nephews to Paris on their 16th worked as a legal tern Upper Manhattan as a Columbia unrgrad, he attend the Universy of Mnota Law School on a full scholarship and helped found an associatn of gay stunts there. More about Sam RobertsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: Pl Feman, 61, Trailblazg Gay Appellate Judge.
Attorney Norm Kent — relentls fighter for marijuana and LGBT rights, baseball fanatic, popular rad talk host and -founr of South Florida Gay News — died at 73 on Thursday, April 13. ”In South FloridaShortly after llege, Kent worked briefly as an urban affairs analyst for the New York Legislature, and 1978 reloted to South Florida where his parents had never officially told them he was gay. “My parents always spected he was gay om the time he moved to Fort Lrdale, ” said his brother Alan, a retired psychologist.
PROMENT LAWYER FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS DI AFTER SETTG HIMSELF ON FIRE PROSPECT PARK
“They would always ask me, ‘Do you thk Norman is gay? ’”Alan Kent, who also is gay, me out to their parents 1982. Five years later, after their father died, Norm lled Alan om Provcetown, Massachetts, wh some news: I’m gay.
“There was always this fear that as a gay lawyer might st me enomilly, ” Kent said.
“But there I was, a gay lawyer who was reprentg gay bars and gay iends and gay owners.
PROMENT GAY RIGHTS LAWYER DI AFTER SETTG HIMSELF ON FIRE IN NEW YORK PARK
Soon he beme known lolly as an advote for naway gay youths who hung out at Fort Lrdale beach.
”Kent spent the rt of his life advotg for homels gay youth. Kent, who at the time published the Exprs Gay News Fort Lrdale, offered Fugate a job liverg newspapers.
”About 1991, Possíen moved to a spare room the Victoria Park hoe where Kent helped him lnch Catalog X, one of the first gay-owned mail-orr adult toy 1998, Possíen had opened two Catalog X retail stor, one Fort Lrdale, the other South Beach. He lnched the Exprs Gay News, which vered all aspects of queer life South sold the paper four years later to Wdow Media, a natnal LGBT media group that renamed the South Florida Bla. In January 2010, Kent lnched a new newspaper and webse lled South Florida Gay News, along wh a new bs partner Piero Guidugli, who stayed wh the pany until the past five years, Kent suffered several life-threateng health setbacks.