Vaid, Urvashi

  • Majority report, August 20, 1987: Temporary workers and South African women’s day

    Production reel from Majority Report, August 20, 1987. Segments: 1. Jane Walsh, co-producer of Australia Public Radio’s “Women on the Line,” interviews three members of Orange Action, a group to help Vietnamese women cope with the effects of war — 2. Filipina feminists Nelia Sancho from the GABRIELA Women’s Party and Aurora “Oyie” de Dios…

  • Urvashi Vaid

    Urvashi Vaid, one-time attorney with the ACLU National Prisoners Project, former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, co-founder of the Boston Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance and the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, is considered one of the leading voices in the progressive LGBT movement. In this hour-long…

  • National march on Washington for gay and lesbian rights : highlights

    Jon Beaupre and Cindy Freedman hosted the KPFK coverage of the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, the third such march of its kind in US history. Organizers estimated an attendance of around one million. The controversy over both the ban on gays in the military and the…