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You need to bring yourself into the world.” Allee, who has recently retired from the United Nations, where she served as a director in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, told me, “I was hooked. Over drinks at the campus bar, she told Allee, “You know, Susan, you are a great person. Susan Allee, who entered Vassar the same year as Vaid, was shy and reserved, and had figured out that she could make friends by being a good listener. She majored in political science and English instead, and made the first of her lifelong friends. She planned to study premed, but her first-semester chemistry course did not go well. She was tiny-perhaps five feet two-and had long black hair and large, thick black-framed glasses. brought up as Indians are, or used to be, was shy to say ‘I love you,’ but Urvashi, who ended every call with ‘I love you,’ taught her to say it back and say it first.”Īll three Vaid sisters went to Vassar. The oldest of the Vaid sisters, Rachna, said, “Our mother . . . These circumstances may or may not have anything to do with the character traits that most struck people who knew Urvashi: her unerring sense of injustice and the overwhelming need to redress it the extraordinary strength and staggering number of her attachments the depth of her emotions and the urgency with which she expressed them. Her parents and sisters returned to India two years later, and, in another five years, the family moved to the United States, where Krishna became a professor of English at the State University of New York at Potsdam. When she was six months old, her mother, Champa Vaid, and two older sisters, Rachna and Jyotsna, left for the United States, where Urvashi’s father, the writer Krishna Baldev Vaid, was working toward a Ph.D in English literature at Harvard. She was the heartthrob of all the lesbians-and some gay men. Toward the end of the speech, when it became clear that the President would not move beyond generalities and would not announce any specific measures or programs, Vaid held up a sign that said, “ Talk is cheap, AIDS funding is not.” In the photo, she is looking at a security guard who is about to remove her from the hall it is a look of unparalleled indignation, a look that would make opponents shrivel and allies fawn. Bush had come to deliver his first speech on AIDS-more than a year into his Presidency and nearly a decade into the epidemic. After she died, the most widely circulated photograph of her was a 1990 shot showing a thirty-one-year-old Vaid standing up in a hotel ballroom where President George H. “She was an institution builder and institution challenger,” one of her oldest friends, the longtime gay activist Richard Burns, said. Starting when she was eleven years old, demonstrating against the Vietnam War, Vaid was also a street activist. causes and, in consecutive five-year stints with the Ford Foundation and the Arcus Foundation, allocated millions more. and chaired the board of the political arm of Planned Parenthood. She co-founded the American LGBTQ+ Museum of History and Culture, which was inaugurated in New York City last year. Anti-Poverty Action Network and the National L.G.B.T./H.I.V. She started LPAC, the first lesbian political-action committee a think tank called Justice Work the Donors of Color Network the National L.G.B.T.Q. organizers, and, in conjunction with it, the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, a network of progressive religious leaders. She started the Creating Change conference, an annual activist gathering and a training ground for young L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force), where she served as the executive director from 1989 to 1992-the first woman of color to lead a national gay-and-lesbian organization. For a decade, she was affiliated with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (now the National L.G.B.T.Q. She was, almost certainly, the most prolific L.G.B.T.Q. 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 realized that he was, unknowingly, talking about her.
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. As she told the story, the organizer claimed that the reasons the association had been turned away had nothing to do with homophobia. Vaid went to the Queens office of one of the parade organizers to make her case. In 1992, 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.