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 ...

Tributes are pouring in this week for Urvashi Vaid, an influential and beloved activist who fought for LGBTQ rights and other progressive social causes for more than four decades. The author and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Loved ones and members of queer activist communities are mourning the sudden passing of pioneering LGBTQ Indian American activist, ...

Urvashi Vaid interrupts a speech by President Bush to the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS in March 1990. (Dennis Cook / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...

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