She led the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force during the AIDS crisis and connected issues of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Friends and colleagues described Ms. Vaid as a masterful coalition builder, capable of enlisting support for LGBTQ rights and other causes through speeches as well as by working behind the scenes.
During the 1993 March on Washington for gay rights, Ms. Vaid addressed an audience estimated at some 1 million people, saying that while she and other attendees saw “beauty and power” in the march, right-wing opponents saw the movement in apocalyptic terms. Urvashi Vaid was born in New Delhi on Oct. 8, 1958, and moved to the United States with her family at age 8. Her mother was a homemaker who became a poet and painter, and her father was a prominent Hindi-language novelist who taught English literature at the State University of New York at Potsdam, where Ms. Vaid spent much of her childhood.
Ms. Vaid stepped down from the organization to write a book, “Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation” , in which she argued that the gay rights movement needed to seek fundamental social changes, not simply tolerance. The book received mixed reviews — Washington Post reviewer Adam Goodheart
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