Urvashi vaid speech language

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  • Indian-born activist and lawyer Urvashi Vaid was fiercely attuned to injustice from an early age.

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    Urvashi Vaid

    Indian-American LGBT rights activist, lawyer and writer (–)

    Urvashi Vaid (October 8, – May 14, )[1] was an Indian-born American LGBT rightsactivist, lawyer, and writer. An expert in gender and sexuality law, she was a consultant in attaining specific goals of social justice. She held a series of roles at the National LGBTQ Task Force, serving as executive director from — the first woman of color to lead a national gay-and-lesbian organization.[2] She is the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation () and Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics ().

    Early life and education

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    Urvashi Vaid was born on October 8, , in New Delhi, India to writer Krishna Baldev Vaid and poet and painter Champa née Bali Vaid.[3][4] She was one of three daughters and moved to Potsdam, New York, in with her family after her father took a teaching position at

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    Urvashi Vaid

    Urvashi Vaid, Credit: Photo bygd Jurek Wajdowicz, courtesy of the artist.

    This episode has been made possible with support from the National LGBTQ Task Force, the country’s oldest national LGBTQ advocacy organization. Learn more about the Task Force at

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    Episode Notes

    Indian-born activist and lawyer Urvashi Vaid was fiercely attuned to injustice from an early age. Adamant that the fight for LGBTQ equality cannot be separated from other progressive struggles, she became one of the most influential, outspoken, and inspiring movement leaders in recent history.

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    Learn more about Urvashi Vaid in this New Yorker profile by Masha Gessen, in her New York Times obituary, or on her website. At the top of the episode, Eric Marcus recounts his earliest memory of Vaid at a student protest at Vassar College; read his in memoriam piece about Vaid in the Vassar Quarterlyhere (Eric later corrected the piece in a letter to the editor to indikera that while Vaid

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    In , Urvashi Vaid, a thirty-three-year-old Indian American lesbian activist, was campaigning for the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association to be included in the annual India Day Parade in New York City. Vaid went to the Queens office of one of the parade organizers to make her case. As she told the story, the organizer claimed that the reasons the association had been turned away had nothing to do with homophobia. As evidence, he offered—and, at this point, Vaid would turn on a distinctly Indian English pronunciation, “an Indian woman is the head of all the gays.” Vaid was so confused that the man had to repeat his claim. She realized that he was, unknowingly, talking about her.

    Vaid, who died of cancer on May 14th, in Manhattan, at the age of sixty-three, wasn’t the head of all the gays, but only because that job does not exist. She was, almost certainly, the most prolific L.G.B.T.Q. organizer in history. For a decade, she was affiliated with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Fo