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IMAGE: Urvashi Vaid at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1993. Krishna Baldev Vaid moved to the US in 1966 to teach English literature at Potsdam University in upstate New York. Her mother Champa Bali Vaid was a poet and painter. Her father was the Hindi writer Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous for books like Uska Bachpan. But it's important to remember that this was not a trajectory that many would have predicted for an Indian American immigrant woman at that time. For them, the mere presence of Vaid on the national scene was truly inspirational. The 1990s was a time when many South Asian LGBTQ+ groups like Trikone in San Francisco, SALGA in New York, Khush in Toronto all came of age.
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Her activism was first within the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement and then in the larger liberal movement. Vaid's legacy does not lie in the South Asian LGBTQ+ movement in the US or in South Asia. And yet it is striking that very few quote any South Asian LGBTQ+ activists about her influence on their lives. The New York Times published tributes to her from tennis great Billie Jean King, playwright Tony Kushner and MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow. Vaid herself made history as the first woman and the first person of Indian origin to head the influential advocacy group, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, in l989. She is an icon, a pillar of our history, we owe her everything.' When Urvashi Vaid, one of America's most prominent LGBT activists, died recently, Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist at Yale who had also been an AIDS activist, tweeted: 'You cannot talk about LGBTQ rights in America without her.