Long before the word “intersectionality” entered common parlance, she was practicing it, insisting that freedom for gay men and lesbians required fighting for gender, racial and economic equality as well. Vaid was at the center of a wide array of progressive issues, centered on but not limited to the L.G.B.T.Q. Her sisters, Rachna Vaid and Jyotsna Vaid, said the cause was breast cancer.įrom her days as a law student in Boston, Ms. equality for more than four decades, died on Saturday in Manhattan. Urvashi Vaid, a lawyer and activist who was a leading figure in the fight for L.G.B.T.Q.
