Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Urvashi Vaid

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Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Urvashi Vaid was an Indian-born American LGBT rights activist, 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. She is the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (1995) and Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (2012).

American - Activist | Born: October 8, 1958

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Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

Urvashi Vaid

By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world.

Urvashi Vaid

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

Urvashi Vaid

The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

Urvashi Vaid

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

Urvashi Vaid

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Urvashi Vaid

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