The New Yorker

The Prolific Activism of Urvashi Vaid

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 ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Remembering Urvashi Vaid, an LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality

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 ...
The Nation

Urvashi Vaid, 1958–2022

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 ...
Bay Area Reporter

Urvashi Vaid, noted LGBTQ leader, dies

Pioneering Indian American LGBTQ leader, attorney, and author Urvashi Vaid died May 14. She was 63. Ms. Vaid was a cancer survivor. Kate Kendell, former executive director of the National Center for ...
WGBH

Remembering Urvashi Vaid, the LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality

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 ...